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Borders, periphery, frontiers:

Life and cognizance exists on the edge of quantum and classical physics.

The very small ( nano ) works by most extraordinary rules - objects have properties that allow them to move from here to there without going through the intermediate space. Time is not linear and space bends. Objects themselves appear, take on properties, and then change their character and reappears in a different form. At the atomic and molecular level the connections can be open and creative rather than mechanical and determined. Uncertainty is a fundamental prerequisite of creativity and life itself. A really clever computer working with uncertainly could work at this level and have some sort of consciousness. This would be an interesting invention of this century.

http://www.foresight.org/cgi-bin/aglimpse?query=quantum&relpath=&errors=0&age=&maxfiles=50&maxlines=30 quantum dots (or single-electron transistors), quantum wells, quantum wires, spin transistors or arrays of all these devices. low power quantum electronics, and high bandwidth photonics are of special interest, as are the demonstrations of space subsystems based on these technologies.

http://www.aero.org/conferences/micro-nano/ Candidate technologies receiving attention include various quantum functional devices, quantum computing, DNA computing, and molecular electronics explained for molecular diode switches, molecular transistors, and molecular logic gates. This talk would provide an overview on one such candidate technology based on carbon and other nanotubes. the novel Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), which differs in design from traditional laser diodes. This treatment burned out the protein shell and yielded two dimensional arrays of inorganic iron oxide dots on the Si wafer.

The size and repeat distance of the dots were 6 and 12 nm, respectively, as measure by FE-SEM and AFM. As the diameter of the iron oxide dots is only 6 nm, this two imensional array of inorganic iron oxide dots has a potential to be used as quantum dots. Feasibility study of the application of this dot array to the structure of semiconductor memory is now in progress.

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

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

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

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

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ZDNet's "Your Digital Future"  represents a fascinating, almost overwhelming look into the changes we're likely to be seeing in:

- E-Business (XML, WAP, human language translation, security, B2B technologies, micropayments, enterprise-wide information systems, and more) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608415,00.html ;

- Internet technologies (the Internet's growing pervasiveness, Instant Messaging becoming as interoperable as the Web, applications that thrive on the "new connectivity," secure protocols, better ways to deliver high-bandwidth content, future "agent" technology, and more)
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The infrastructures that tie all this together and allow it all to work (fiber-fiber-fiber, wireless of many different flavors, PDAs and cell phones, radios -- from ultra wideband to software-defined, and more) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608417,00.html ;

- Computing technologies (.18 to .13 micron chips, silicon-on-insulator, and copper interconnects yielding 12 GHz chips by 2005! Commodity systems in 2003 that have 5 GHz processors, 10 gigabytes of memory, 300 gigabyte hard drives, and half-gigabit/second USB.  A look into evolving chip architectures, and all of this leading to systems that "will still be outdated within a year of purchase."  Graphics performance in 2005 will be 1.6 trillion pixels at 48 billion polygons per second.  And 1 terabyte disk drives that same year.  And more.)
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The frontiers beyond (optical, molecular, DNA, and quantum computing, totally ubiquitous computing, advanced display technologies, and the promises of carbon nanotubes, self-organizing networks, and more.) http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2608419,00.html  .

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The following image need to be firmly in mind to understand the AOL/ Time Warner deal - and the frenzy going on in telecommunications and computer industries.

The time frame is about 10 years - the impact comes first in Northern Europe - Singapore - parts of the states - parts of Hong Kong and China - Japan - Taiwan - South East Asia - Australia ( already with system under construction )

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

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

TV programs on demand on a big flat screen digital high definition system - programs are recorded and played as you desire, when you desire on any of the screens around the wired house you desire.

There is no need for program schedules - movies and other video content are downloaded on demand from world wide services. Some charge fees some are free with or without ads. You can watch the BBC news or CNN or C-span type programs any time.

There is no need for movie or music channels since you can order anything you want anytime.

The same with music, either rented for a limited number of replays, or purchased and transferred to CD or DVD -

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

The cell phone - palm pilot - personal digital assistant works at 400 kbs to 1 Mbs with GPS, e-mail and other web content, fold up or screen keyboards, long life batteries, high gain reception of dense multiplex time division wideband GS3 codes.

The home terminal - NEXUM - provides wireless ( bluetooth ) connection to the mobile elements, TV, music, games, information systems with voice commands. You say " Write a note" and dictate as it appears on the big screen. You correct with the portable keyboard that is used for interactive TV.

The master computer works within a network "master server in the sky" to provide services you need or enjoy. Shopping, banking, tele-communities, video conferences, design and research, games and social activities, travel and adventure, and tuned to your interests and desires.

The master server bills for usage in micro pennies for "extras" but charges a flat fee for "basic services". Several master server companies compete for services on the common carrier -

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

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

The super on-line service using optic fiber to the door.

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

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nano computers quantum optical network switching electronics high bandwidth photonics diode switches molecular transistors molecular logic gates Quantum Cascade Laser

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A short introduction to quantum computation

Max PLANCK and Heisenberg, and Erwin SCHRÖDINGER's wave mechanics, and Born, are the people of the 20th century who will most influence the 21 st. We will see the application of quantum computer fairly soon. It could ( so will ) have some level of self awareness we call consciousness

http://www.qubit.org/intros/comp/comp.html

Being in two places at the same time - or going from here to there without passing through the space between.

The nature of matter at this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience it, energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another instantly.

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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 ...

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!

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The list of companies in tele-communications

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In short why John McCain's issues will be the central to the comming election - the spirit moves in mysterious ways.

We have bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown ) and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts, chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red ) - We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ). We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.

The history of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.

The physical body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth, position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized. This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.

When groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.

"Robert Michels"

The Iron Law of Oligarchy

Michels believed that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to serve. http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt

"Michels (1911) came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.

Those in command do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not rewarded get angry ( red ).

The early church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of kings they formed parliaments.

They claimed the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.

The church or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That sort of works.

Then they appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).

They promised the golden kingdom in the sky.

They turned love into hate and hate into love.

They discovered the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.

Now we are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.

Why has the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion, truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive of marketing ?

In short why John McCain will win over Gore and Bush - the spirit moves in mysterious ways.

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Who will keep you informed on the events just around the next bend. In the past it was OK to let others forge the way. You could wait to see how it turned out then buy your way in after the bugs had been removed. Pioneers got arrows in their backs. BUT now we are all on the frontier and can't wait until the dust settles. For example:

Dr. Pflaum ( for a fee ) will research the events and technologies that will effect your future and give you reports and advice.
FOR EXAMPLE:

Symbian, Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003 http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html

People who purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents, are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks, such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive. And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system. Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony. This will never happen.

It's a problem crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken, as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.

This device would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.

There would be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software. You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.

Services for the masses

In the near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.

Instead of buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump on it.

The technology to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as movies on demand, are probably a few years out.

The advent of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of oddballs: "computer" people.

Brett Arquette is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.

The new school

What could an relevant on-line school be like.

  • Color is better than black and white.
  • Three dimensions is better than two.
  • Round is better than flat.
  • Fast is more successful than slow.
Civilization progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man and nature, and greater freedom of participation.

Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation is discouraged at all levels.

The iron law of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.

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

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

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

2.)

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

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

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

The NEXUM project:

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

The design of the general communications and computing device.

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

Management, information technology, marketing, human resources and production need to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers still have a way to go - the

NEXUM

must leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.

How is systems analysis different

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

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

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

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

The invention of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy

Color is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.

As I understand IT , a new type of technology using Time Synchronization Systems Through DCF77 or GPS signal and using a 10,000 MHTZ chip can transmit MEGA-BITS the last mile. In synergy with solid state atomic level MEMORY TECHNOLOGY data moves from FROM MEGA-BIT TO GIGA-BIT per second. High Speed processors adapted from TERCOM - terrain contour matching 10,000 MHz chip used in the cruise missile terrain following "smart bombs" or using guided radio waves or laser beam targeting based on rapid image recognition.

AND you add : NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE

According to CMR ( http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html ), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid state, and has a different operating approach."

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Symbian joint venture between Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such as the consoless Sony’s PlayStation 2

For Example: Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service. With Dialpad.com, you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US. Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software. You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!

weirdbrain ' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates. n.

Fate; destiny. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.

These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “

The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “

There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “

The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).

http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?

* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.

These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations. But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/ http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/ articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).

AND YOU GET:

Behind the news: a common thread of interconnectedness

Imagine a fat monitor or a hand held device or using i-Burst broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB ( universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) that creates the connection to the life force.

The device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.

The device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay by use applications.

Crank up the broadband
Third-generation services are coming soon to a mobile phone near you --
but first the platforms and standards have to be resolved.

Electricity made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing double encoded packets travel fast and faster.

The Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or PDA Personal digital assistant or  NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects you to the backbone of the internet.

A machine called NEXUM

The comprehensive, omnibus, all-embracing, all-encompassing, across-the-board, INCLUSIVE, EXTENSIVE widespread, epidemic, GENERAL international, world-wide, global, cosmic, UNIVERSAL, UBIQUITOUS appliance device, mechanical contraption, gadget, gismo, CONTRIVANCE doodad, doohickey, thingy, thingamabob, thingamajig, that we all will carry around. At the counter in Wal-Mat it connects quickly by infra-red link to the charge ( debit ) machine.

The true paper-less banking. What do we have ? What did we buy ? How much did it cost on record.

We talk to it. Call home. Get personal mail. Look up a record. Check on the price of dry wall. What is the quote on 20 year fixed term money ? Where do I go next ? How do I get there ? Call ahead and confirm I will be 10 minutes late. What's on the menu, reserve the table by the window and order ahead. Who has the best price on or for or going - on anything ? Who wants to buy or sell ? How is the car running, how am I doing ? Can I fly to Jerusalem in the morning and rent a car and get a hotel and make appointments ?

When connected to a terminal I can type or see better - out of the digital airwaves or on cable or on optic fiber in Africa to China down-links and up links with nodes and storage and services at my command charges by the micro-penny. It's always on with a flat connection fee.

How our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones, broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber,  DSL or all of the above ?

Since the late 1880s, when wireless communications were first demonstrated, all practical uses of radio have relied on the transmission of continuous sine waves.

The modulation of those sine waves allows the transmission and reception of information in either amplitude (AM radio) or frequency (FM radio). From 1890 to the present, industry has searched relentlessly for ways to send more information more reliably. Radio researchers have evolved techniques such as CDMA, TDMA, etc. Introduction to CDMA

http://www.time-domain.com/technology.htmlNow, the entire wireless landscape has changed. Larry Fullerton discovered that single RF monocycles could be transmitted through an antenna, and by precisely positioning these monocycles in time and then using a matched receiver to recover the transmissions, a whole new wireless medium was created, 'Digital Pulse Wireless' - a medium that does not rely on sine waves, does not require an assigned frequency, does not need a power amplifier, and is so random and low powered that it is indistinguishable from noise.

The medium does require precise pulse placement in time (pulses are positioned with an accuracy of trillionths of a second), and it also requires a coherent correlating receiver - a Fullerton correlator. Larry Fullerton developed and patented the technology over the last decade.

http://lasers.llnl.gov/lasers/idp/mir/files/MIR_info.html

The technology based on pulse-echo radar, discovered around the turn of the century. Such radar leverages the speed of light as an integral component of its operation, measuring the echo that results when a pulse strikes an object to determine that object's distance from the pulse source.

Conventional radar systems transmit several thousand such pulses per second. MIR, by contrast, sends out over 1 million.

"In the past, people used radio waves, but nobody cared how fast they were going," McEwan said. "Now the consumer can use devices that actually clock the speed of light in the form of microwave propagation, allowing them to do things that they could never do before." http://www.eet.com/news/97/937news/sensorapps.html

The news tracker connection then runs everything .

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

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

How about http://www.wiredbrain.com/battle.wav

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

This is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications systems can communicate with each other. 

The system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are ( kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference, word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.

The standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.

The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.

Tomorrow's story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:

StarOffice 5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at

http://www.sun.com/

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

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

StarOffice 5.1 includes:

          StarOffice Writer for document editing,
          • StarOffice Calc for creating spreadsheets,
          • StarOffice Impress for creating presentations,
          • StarOffice Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
          • StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
          • StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail,
          • StarOffice Base for creating interfaces to databases,
          • StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news, and
          • StarOffice Math for creating complex formulas,

          • StarOffice Workplace for creating a desktop environment

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html

http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html

It's really good !

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

And it's free

As important as the transistor ?

Imagine 3.4 terabytes in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!

FROM

http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/

Videos would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel, using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.

The connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door ), or recording that recharge themselves.

Fast transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications

The concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual organization . Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into new flexible patterns of organization in the small business sector are presented

FROM

http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/

While it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could be on the market in two years!

According to CMR ( http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html ), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid state, and has a different operating approach."

And to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power storage solution "...can be put onto virtually every surface," essentially providing massive data storage for almost anything.

Indeed, CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,  "

The technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."

It also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second, could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?

Of course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.

IF this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density" hopes, imagine the implications: storage could become so inexpensive and so pervasive that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant wealth.

Note that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations, this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to "change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.

In the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...

Ah, how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab ( http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7 )

[Image - Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg ]

It was the size of a matchbox.

Now, but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches in that box!

[Image - U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg

Brought to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory, serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html . And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.

Of course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers, so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling" just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.

In fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly not all that far away...

A long time ago - maybe five years as we started on the web it was clear that the system was NOT user-friendly. We did some experiments with on-line instruction, the synergy group was a way for people to help each-other. AOL did so well ( despite my prediction that they were no longer useful ) because they were easy to use. http://www.wiredbrain.com/synergy.htm

Guide for the Newbie to the internet

http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/internet/training.html

Internet Guides, Tutorials, and Training Information

Unless otherwise noted, the sites listed in this directory are provided by organizations outside the Library of Congress.

These links are offered as a convenience and for informational purposes.

Their inclusion here does not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Library of Congress of any of the products, services, or opinions of the external provider. *

The Library of Congress bears no responsibility for the accuracy or the content of external sites. Please contact the external site's administrator for answers to questions regarding any of these sites.

Go to: Collections of Guides and Courses | Individual Guides and Courses | Internet Glossaries | Resources for Internet Trainers

We worked on the newbie page - which is very dated. We collected resources such as w95links.htm , and lots of guides to search engines.

The idea as always been to learn how to learn - be a fisherman and catch your own fish. Now I don’t know what people know or care to know.

The web has become a huge commercial market place doing mostly mundane things - group building and actual synergy is rare. Maybe after all the hype and special effects some people will return to the promise of new communities -

EPCOT

was designed to be an experimental community of the future and ending up as an amusement park. Don’t we have enough phony experience, virtual reality is everywhere. http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~skarsten/community5.html Rheingold's Brainstorms: Virtual Worlds Linklist

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/csoc/

There is a lot of chat - in many forms -

CLUB HOUSE

http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/onlinecommunities?as

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The Excite search Soon the Post-PC will flip on without a shell and complex set-up. Rather than load Windows it will go without Windows, the shell being an option.

The OS system will be built into the chip and uniform as a USB

History of the synergy site:

Date: Late 1980’s Computer AT 8088 640 K RAM modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) 300 bps

 360 K floppies then 20 MB hard drive Cost about $1500.00 1.2 Mb 3 ¼ " floppy  USE: Word processor DOS 2 to 5 Library Catalog via FIRN ( Florida education network ) e-mail newsletters, newsgroups, Eudora, freenet at FSU, gophers, FTP, Chat, IRC, BBS.

Early 1993 386 to 1994 486 1 Mb RAM external 1200 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) to 14.4 internal Winsock on Netscape 1.0 to 3.0 with ISP first in area with ISPN line - BBS - synergy site at trivista WordPerfect Lotus 123 200 Mb Hard drive Cost about $1200.00 hand made up grades DOS 4 to 6.2 1994 Beta Windows 95 without the winsock, 8 Mb RAM to 32 Mb RAM, 850 MB Hard drive 33 to 56 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) but few connections at that speed Tried ATT ( lowered price if ISP from $100 to $ 20 per month ) MSN, AOL, prodigy - MS office DAY TRADING

Windows 1998 and Pentium II

  Basic machine is now $700.00 BEST/BUY and the progress of the rest of

History of human progress has direction which can be represented by color codes -

Perhaps the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American experience in the last half of the 20th century.

It is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.

The American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused and largely based on myth and fiction, Television and romance - a collection of dreams and false impressions. We are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general will.

We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse, half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive, arrogant, in other wordsWe have a national Character like the Kennedy clan -

We weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the safety and welfare of others.

There are three or four ways American Culture is different from most other modern societies. We have a money driven political system, not only a capitalist economy but a commercial system of government - follows the golden rule -

Those with the gold rule

The Illusion of choice:

At the heart of advertising and marketing is the process of making connections between human nature and the product. Political consultants and campaigns are NO different. Since people make thousands of unimportant and a few important choices - the trick is to connect to the patterns or habits people use to make choices.

At the first level ( blue ) we need to survive - heath and safety sell. If you use this product you won’t die.

The baby in the tire and the mushroom cloud are classic example of images of survival, safety and good product placement in a critical component of the brain stem.

At the second level ( red ) needs and desires include the desire for action - thrills - or the passion for security, value and comfort. Type one is more excited, type two more passive. In politics this is call conservative or radical. Bud and coke drinkers go for fast cars and women ( Clinton ) , mineral water for the heath conscious ( Bush ), wine for the middle of the road.

At the third level ( yellow - orange ) social needs and desires - white teeth and fresh breath say " I’m worth it".

. Second, we lack national standards of education - a years progress for a year in school, the Florida Plan . Third, we lack a national health plan or system.

The first condition creates the second and third, we can not become a fully functional modern society without election reform.

The there are GUNS..

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240,000 more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die

 Since 1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to 6 billion - the last billion in five years An estimated 114 million acts of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:

The birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will probably not be in happy circumstances:  If you think of the earth as a Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate its passenger capacity is limited

    older habits and systems are upgraded or replaced by new and improved systems.

    History has been the struggle of the new replacing the old:

    racism by integration, local or provincial by national and international -

    superstition and magic by science and engineering -

    privilege by opportunity and competition -

    authority by power and the facts with reason -

    closed systems and minds by open system and tolerance -

    the application of science and technology to advance human understanding, civil society,

    democracy and liberal economic systems,

    what is really important are;

    the end of traditional needs based politics,

    replace emotional content ( romance ) by professional performance

    global communications systems*

    because they all work better.

Action at a distance

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Try the advanced Power Search!

The Business Best Sellers:

What does this tell you ? A few years ago it was personal development, ( SELF HELP ) then organizational thinking, ( INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE ) systems and marketing - now it's global business, technology amd day trading

Wisdom:

The Wisdom Page - see also color codes to knowledge

What is wisdom ? Contains more than good judgment or common sense, because in is based on perspective.

The central element of what is called "wisdom" is analysis of complex wholes derived from perspective all the way to China and the direct experience of universals. If you have some sense of what you know and what you don’t know, what can be known and what can not be known and how to cope with the great middle ground of uncertainty with dynamic change.

It in one way wisdom is the opposite of provincial, traditional, authoritarian, dogmatic, cultural bound, habit driven, narrow minded, closed minded, optioned, talk show, mass media, popular culture, conventional, "common sense" popular folkways. It is also not derived by elite, special privileges of the ruling classes. While animals, children, peasants, the wind and rain contain wisdom they are not to best guides to effective action but all of this is included in good judgment.

Wisdom is as wisdom does, stupid is as stupid does according to the wisdom of Forest Gump.

Wisdom is today’s world involves many scientific and technical issues. If wisdom is a form of certain knowledge, information plus understanding of the models and systems which order and display the underlining causes of apparent action. Things are not what they seem then - physics: must be the foundation of systems thinking.

Atoms: Look think more deeply then look think again

Matter is not created or destroyed but changes form.

The first form was and is pure energy, then energy in the form of light, then energy as electrical energy fields magnetic fields or strings which then take the forms of atoms. Material objects are mostly space with captured energy in the form of fields of atoms connected to each other by strong and weak forces.

The material world is an illusion of solid material things but really is the dance of energy fields.

LIFE: Crisis and opportunity

Within our global environment, life has shaped a biosphere based on carbon, oxygen - water, air, solar energy. Most of life are microbes. Micro-organisms from complex networks including shared DNA. DNA is not an uncommon property of the universe but takes different forms with different setting.

The planet earth is hospitable to the work of DNA in creating a prosperous environment for itself called the biosphere.

Evolution: Big and little bangs

Material collected in space form solar systems by being pulled together into larger masses - the process involves as collisions between objects of different sizes.

The biosphere is the product of experience with extinction. Biological material finds stability within any stable system but with adjustments to changing conditions. When the opportunity arrives by mass extinction, the survivors move into the empty slots or niches by rapid evolutionary changes. Most of the time evolution doesn’t matter much as patterns of live form dynamic ecologies .

Wired Brain:

The importance of just talk

Humans are very new being with only a few million years of experience. Turtles have 100’s of millions of years practice and micro-organisms billions. Thinking and talking people can use the communications of abstraction as the distinctive human ability. This ability appeared rather suddenly about 100,000 years ago. Some of the unused visual capacity of the left brain was transferred to a pre-wired speech center called the "wiredbrain".

Catch-on factor: Learning organizations

The ability to communicate abstractions - how to - how to do more and better with less danger and uncertainty produced an technological revolution from 30,000 BC to the present day. First domestic animals, dogs moved in with people, knowing a good deal when they saw one. Fishing and hunting methods improved to the point of extinction of some of the less smart big game.

The ability to learn new ways without too quickly abandoning traditions helps in organizational success.

Tribal: Sharing common values

Tribal rules and laws are a technological tool for survival. How to includes farming and hunting, fishing and gathering; marriage, authority systems, beliefs in church and state, personal hygiene, diet, dress, ceremony, gift giving, coming of age - and the dozens of common tribal elements devised by "human Nature" and experience. Magic is science under low levels of understanding or control.

These laws and customs come from the "dream-time" where people with talent for special connections converse with dreams to "catch-on" to long term patterns in their lives. This inspirational talent is one of many special talents distributed in populations - academic, music, graphics, athletic and dance, social, leadership, mystical and magical, mathematical, much more than IQ is needed for tribal or business or educational success.

Synergy is the tribal habits of sharing - everyone benefits from tribal success. If the benefits are shared then there is a lot more interest in participation.

Empires: Rules and rulers

Civilization is the management of large scale organization by rational process.

The masses maybe motivated by magic, evangelical emotional religion and products, but the top management must have a large center of reason, technological competence, and a higher education into complex systems, or stupid comand and control succumb quickly to institutional entropy.

The training in methods of wisdom or systems thinking is higher education for ruling classes that introduced concepts foreign to the masses.

The rules are different for the ruled in knowledge of the internal language, secret codes to foreign intelligence. It started in small secret societies and the methods were made into a craft or guild of the "knowing" alchemist of the soul. Rulers had to have virtue, merit, and character to abstract their own needs and desires from the good of the empire. Selfish, badly behaved rulers such as those in the decline of Rome or of Spain, and France, and England and US - fail in synergy - the motivation of the shared values and rewards of victory and poor systems thinking means poor systems management.

Liberal Education:

The liberal arts were the intellectual and moral training of rulers. Character came from example, reason, and tradition not blind belief in the authoritative word of GOD. Founding fathers used Masonic codes to organize committees of public safety, then a rebellion against the established order of church and state.

They started on the foundation of a logical and rational NOT religions beliefs.

They formed a more perfect technological republic based on applied political and social theory; the balance of power and the power of talk - debate, free press and limited government.

The Change to the technological ruling class:

Owners have been replaced by doers - and doers by ginks.

The critical person is the CTO - chief technology officer. Technical training is not a liberal art - and the coffee mill BA or MBA doesn’t do much for the moral and political, civic character of graduates.

The rulers of the technology need wisdom training quick and fast because they don’t have much time for such silliness.

by Sergio Zyman

Market for broadband is  Fantastic

Linux to attack Windows

in both the client and server arenas

To access the Caldera Systems Web site, please bookmark

http://www.calderasystems.com . Caldera Systems, Inc. is a Canopy Group holding under the Ray Noorda/Canopy Group Investment Company. Ray Noorda is the former CEO of Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL)

dream Microsoft-scale

dreams. And building billion-dollar software companies inevitably means taking on Microsoft. ...that Doerr is the padrone of a loose collection of families belonging to the ABM [Anyone But Microsoft]confederation. "

There's no doubt in my mind John's the ring leader of the anti-Microsoft cause," said [Upside] publisher David Bunnell.

"John's the catalyst for all these guys: for Scott, for [James] Barksdale, even for the Ellisons of the world.

NOISE: and Linux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They took UNIX and set it up for the micro-computer, then quickly added features to appeal to developers. When IBM used DOS in their PS they did so because there was software that people could use. As you cant sell radios without stations and you cant have stations without radios - you can sell machines without applications.

Then once DOS was a "standard" and claimed open systems Microsoft quickly added more and more attachments that developers could use to save time . Common packages for user made new applications easier.

They spent a great deal of time and effort recruiting and training and supporting 100’s of thousands of developers and system managers. Soon MS became to only game in town and then the evil empire attacked by replacing the programs ( or buying them ) for the most profitable applications - office suite.

They almost wiped out WordPerfect, Corel, Novell, Lotus and took over a big hunk of IBM’s market share.

This is exactly what Linux ( being really open ) hopes to do. Since everyone else H-P, IBM, Oracle SUN, have a real interest in being Windows free - why not. Linux can run windows applications, will have a GUI ( graphic user interface ) and be free in its basic form. You can but a CD which will partition your hard drive and set up dual boot ( boot into windows or Linux ) and have programs that will work on either system. If it stays open ( which it will ) it could be a whole lot better in a years or two than windows. Windows has gotten hopeless blotted, patched, and over complex so it CRASHES. Since Linux is open to improvements from the community it should be better.

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015550,00.html

http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/images/downloads4.gif

Ferret finds 1500 Wiredbrain "pflaump" web pages 

COPERNIC searches all the main engines very quickly

Make PORTALS your home page and use "wiredbrain" password "synergy" for set-up start pages.

Alltheweb does as it claims to be fast and large

FAST Web SearchWeb Search 

Most search engines now find about 30 % of the 350 million pages. So you need to check many engines.

The Go networks does a good job where it doesn't crash

with 

Research methods for the Internet:

Many students and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.

There are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.

First you need some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why not both ? )

Then look at http://www.wiredbrain.com/portals.htm for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5 to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea of their advantages and limitations.

Then find and down load:

http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/

http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html

The GO networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.

http://express.infoseek.com/

After you have downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.

All the multi-search work like http://www.multicrawl.com/

but keep you files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the sites and back.

TAKING NOTES:

On most pages ( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.

Get Gooey!

PAD personal access device news search

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

Three kinds of PADs will emerge, Polacek said: a CRT-based PAD, similar to Apple Computer Inc.'s iMac; a kitchen PAD that is connected to a wall for e-mail and Web browsing; and a portable PAD, with wireless communication.

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

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

Lots of partners

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

The best buys on the Internet

The best Telephone rates loan rates

Action at a distance

How fast is it? A FastAccess-equipped phone line and computer enable speeds up to 50 times faster than conventional (28.8 Kbps) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s (actual connection speeds may vary). FastAccess Service allows information to travel at speeds up to 1.5 Mbps from the provider to your computer

 (downstream), and up to 256 kbps from your computer to the provider (upstream)*.

The increased capability allows you to access large amounts of data in significantly less time.

AT&T is poised to offer digital television, telephone and high speed Internet service to at least a quarter of the country. But until now, it had planned on running fiber optic cables to clusters of 600 homes.

Packets

The Salt Lake City test, which will begin in two to three weeks, will run fiber to neighborhoods of 50 to 75 homes - increasing by tenfold the capacity of the system and making connections clearer and more reliable.

Guide to information technology and business

Human development, culture, politics, education, business practice all change and develop

in stages that can be color coded.

The Way of the changes has been described as

the path

followed by the hero with a 1000 faces, from Ancient times to OZ and Star Wars.

The way of the Christ and of the holy mass.

The first- stages are a sense there is something more than needs and wants.

The dimension from Red to Blue

visible light,

Disney University

Professional Development Programs

Needs, Wants, Social, pretend and pretense , accept and acceptance

Collect - A prayer that is sung or said on behalf of the people by the celebrant or officiant at liturgical celebrations.

ONE: WATERand creation

TYPE ONE: Mommy choice ( follows tradition )

Mommy ( the mother church and state ) will take care of YOU

Blue - used during Advent.

Traditional (old) history, politics and religion based on human

needs

Compass

NORTH = N (needs)

In Disney talk = food, bathrooms, safe and clean

In Maslow's hierarchy 1. Basic Physiological, Hunger, Thirst, shelter Covey: DEPENDENCE

Welcome to someplace else- quiet down and pay attention -

The Virgin Mother is blue -

The story begins with the setting, the logic for being all too human, the reasons for any of the characters'

 habits and why we should care -

Our roles: all the world's a stage - Click BLUE for LOGOS

Gospel -

The final lesson in

The Word of God taken from one of the four Gospels in the New Testament.

TWO : FIRE Passions

W= Wants (west)

In Disney speak = safe adventure, entertainment, escape into the romantic church *and state ( friendly fascism)

Red - on Pentecost, Feasts of Martyrs, and during Holy Week.

Traditional marketing of people and ideas, as well as things

depended on emotions - desires for social status -

Marketing Segmentation?

to and by types

2. Type two: Safety First: Maslow's Safety and security: Order, protection from harm

Covey: Proactive

Lesson (also the Epistle) - any reading from the Bible except the Gospels or Psalms; - Preaching about VALUES From passion to right reason, faith and correct feeling -

The HERO takes off on the MISSION for all the right reasons:

Click RED for ETHOS

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E= East = Expectations( demands) of yourself and others

In Disney Cult - exceed expectations - personal responsibility

kind, thoughtful, loyal

TYPE THREE: What's in - current - follow the styles

CIVIC Virtues - going beyond selfish needs and wants to community

2B. THYMOS = Status With love and hate of community, responsibility , civilization, yellow is the color for the emotional attachment to being a "good" member of the group

The hero is alone, scared and off target, because he doesn't now what is SELF and what is expected by others

We need a new science of Social ergonomics

Prayers of the People

THREE :

The good EARTH

S= South = Synergy

Disney knowledge = caring about the customer who will then care about coming back, doing what is necessary, having the authority to solve problems status and satisfactions

Growing sense of the larger world - social ecology - inter-connections

3. TYPE THREE: Set my own style ( a little different )

Maslow's Belonging and LOVE: affection, acceptance, friendship

COVEY: Goals and ends in mind - focus

Grounding-

prayers of the people for peace and health

The HERO becomes aware of the mirror image of himself, he understands he has more than one role and dimension

he really cares about himself and others

( feeling and abilities he didn't know he had )

Click BROWN for PATHOS

Purple or Violet - for penitential occasions, during Lent, at Requiems or the Burial of the Dead, and Advent.

FOUR:

The BLACK hole Black -

TYPE FIVE: search for action in  danger, a little to fast, a little too much

for the Burial of the Dead and Requiems.

Fix the problem not the blame -

some sense of profound meaning

the donut or the holeMore Dimensions -

Space and time plus -

Confession of Sin -

The dark side -

The HERO is tested by monsters and his fears of monsters -

He has doubts but continues outward bound and survives

Click BLACK for details of the color codes

First Understand then be understood

Holy Communion, -

The second part of the Holy Eucharist, following the Word of God

 

 FIVE:

The light

AIR White - Type six

on Feasts of our Lord, Feasts of Saints who were not martyrs, Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in some places at

 the Burial of the Dead.

There are 11 dimensions, flat, curved, round, time, and six more outside the visible.

WHITE is the strong force - making matter possible - mass and gravity

A civic religion - faith in human progress - virtue of right thinking

4. Maslow's self-esteem, respect for others

Covey: Put first things first, values

Absolution -

The pronouncement of God's forgiveness, after the Confession of Sin

The person becomes HERO

gains spirit and pride

 to be respected, listened to, be recognized, be obeyed, COMMAND and be a DISCIPLE, with discipline

To train by instruction and practice, especially to teach self-control to.

2. To teach to obey rules or accept authority.

3. To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

4. To impose order on: needed to discipline their study habits.

[Middle English, from Old French descepline, from Latin disciplìna, from discipulus, pupil.

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MEMORY

How are you getting on with that memory training course you got by correspondence, Mulla?'

'I'm improving. Now I can sometimes remember that I have forgotten something.'

[Reload for another story.] About Nasrudin http://www.ishkbooks.com/index.html Subject: Re: Uncertainty Date: Sun, 25 Jul. 1999 21:24:17 EDT From: Angelotus1@aol.com To: pepflaum@bellsouth.net

Dr. Pflaump, You're reply and attention is hugely appreciated. Thank you.

For the past several years I have been familiarizing myself with the writings of Idries Shah Sayed, (May he be happy forever), and absorbing a packet of study papers sent to me, three years ago, by the Society for Sufi Studies. As I'm sure you know, myself, and probably others like me, were notified by the Society, soon after Shahs passing, that all activities were suspended.

I have been through some rather shattering experiences, since beginning study. Burning off some gas perhaps. But I feel interested to know if there is any way I might participate or help in some authentic Sufi enterprise? I hope that's not greedy of me. But I confess to a conspicuous lack of meaningful activity or interest in life these days. I'm looking around for..........''something''.

Covey: Think win/win

Eucharist and other Sacraments .

SIX:

The green magic man

electromagnetic energy

behing the screen

Communion - the Christian sacramental meal, equivalent to the Lord's Supper; now more commonly called 'eucharist' in Episcopal churches;

Green- on the Sundays and Ordinary days of the Year after Epiphany and Pentecost.

also called Mass in Roman Catholic churches.

Get ready for something different

Self-actualization becoming one self beyond one self and social conventions

Covey: independence

The Nobel prize winning work of Glashow, Salam, and Weinberg successfully showed that the electromagnetic and weak forces can be unified into a single electroweak force.

There is actually some pretty strong evidence that the forces of the Standard Model should all unify as well.

There are two types of particles in nature - fermions and bosons. A fundamental theory of nature must contain both

union and peace

The other four forces are Superstrings

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Universal Communications device

Talk about change - open systems - a new world order http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/ for current updates

Indeed, Yahoo has just announced a strategy to capitalize on this move, bringing "Yahoo Everywhere" to European mobile phones! Steve Boom, Yahoo Europe's director of business development, explains in the June 10 IDG News ( http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=11320 ) that,

"We want to make sure the experience [Yahoo users] get from the phone is a full Yahoo experience."And Yahoo also has designs on set top boxes and other new communicating, computing , appliances...

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

 http://www.totaltele.com/secure/view.asp?ArticleID=22675&Pub=tt&categoryid=0 ).And this, according to Ericsson's senior manager of wireless strategy Filip Lindell, could mark,

  "...the end of the circuit-switched telecommunications world."

  Such activity is not just taking place in Europe. Motorola and Sun have entered into an agreement http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker= mot&script=410&layout=7&item_id=35469 ) to implement a wireless IP infrastructure beginning in 2001 that would provide the wireless equivalent,"...of near-infinite dial tone; ...a claim that only the wireline industry can make today."

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Technology is going to make the world around us smartas we move away from proprietary architectures to a standards based ecology of information. We still need a name for the

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

The market for the bandwidth and the appliances is global - with billions of clients world wide.

The money is in software now moving from "programs" to content.

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The content will be interactive media that includes program functions. ISP such as- AOL, will provide multimedia E-mail as a word processor that can handle graphics, photographs, soon video and data files.

The browser becomes a universal systems package do all the most common functions as plug ins.

 

The USB universal serial bus ties to printers, sound and video systems, play stations, phones, keyboards and voice commands, other appliances and services.

  Microsoft-NBC-General Electric, merge into a convergence of media and communications services. Time-Warner, the News Corp., Disney-ABC, are positioning themselves for the transformation of many business into one.

The current crop of Internet stocks are unlikely to be very important. Other business includes finance, matching buyers and sellers, and a thousand other ideas and items.

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

  A limited set of functions and libraries in or around a CPU, with the capacities of a play station, will run a package of on demand utilities called from the network. Once there is a break in the bandwidth, your browser can quickly call down any packages it may need - high speed smart updates means you don't have to have everything stored.

  Office systems can do this now but are afraid to be pioneers with arrows in their backs. Once Sun, Oracle, IBM or others really have high performance objective networks there will be no need for the bloated windows operation systems.

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

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

Sun's McNealy portrays perils of running the Wintel 'gauntlet' ) ( Windows/intel ) http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnews2.inp Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., one could easily draw the conclusion that most of the ills in the computer industry stem from one company and one company only.

 

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

The market economy works until somebody gets so much market power that they are beyond market principles," he said.McNealy said Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop through the Windows operating system enables it to sell "bloat" like Office 2000 that people have to buy."

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

Corruption:

It has always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and all cultures and with all people.

The question is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.

Clearly a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.

The world is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan, many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia, Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption, violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist movements.

Corruption is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history, the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.

The iron law of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.

The theory of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful human contact.

The battle of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools, drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition of being sick.

So we know the ailment and the cause.

The treatment is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t have to keep books on a per patient basis.

They treat anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service - their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.

The evil effects of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals, area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment, and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.

Political units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral college. Regional government is very useful.

There are few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within a global economy.

The need for the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced technology, and increased participation of active creative people.

Clearly a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In other words are Swiss a regional small country.

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

  RCA supported the networks in order to sell radios.

Then they made more from the broadcasting then they did from hardware. Sarnoff, David, 1891–1971, American radio and television pioneer; b. Russia. He worked for the Marconi Wireless Co., winning recognition as the narrator of the Titanic disaster (1912). After the Radio Corp. of America absorbed (1921) Marconi, Sarnoff became general manager. As president (after 1930) and chairman of the board (from 1947) of RCA, he played a major role in the development of television.A superheterodyne circuit developed by U.S. Army Signal Corps major Edwin Howard Armstrong, 26, became the basic design for all amplitude modulation (AM) radios. It greatly increases the selectivity and sensitivity of radio receivers over a wide band of frequencies (see 1906; FM, 1933). Radio Corp. of America (RCA) was founded by Owen D. Young (see 1919) who loans Ernst Alexanderson to RCA which will employ him as chief engineer for 5 years (see 1906). RCA acquired the Victor Co. and become a radio-phonograph colossus but anti-trust court actions will separate RCA from GE (see VICTROLA, 1906; NBC, 1926).

  David Sarnoff urges marketing of a simple "radio music box."

The American Marconi Co. says his plan will make the radio "a ‘household utility’ in the same sense as the piano or phonograph" (see 1912; 1920). American radio and television pioneer who proposed the first commercial radio receiver and in 1926 formed the National Broadcasting Company.

The first vinylite phonograph record appears in October. RCA-Victor issues a new recording of the 1895 Richard strauss work Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, but vinylite will not displace shellac until the perfection of long-playing records (see 1948).

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