Friendly is the New Powerful

"Friendly is the new powerful. This should not come as a surprise as our artifacts become more lifelike. The success of life is based on many symbiotic relationships and synergistic activities. An intelligent transparency is an essential ingredient to sustained orderly change (life).

Watch the magic, decades later.

"To achieve the enhanced transparency that progress requires, we must mitigate accidental and intentional noise in the global connection system. As always, 'who decides' is central to success. Answering the question with the wealthy or powerful is just not up to the task anymore. Both are insulated by their own design from where the current solutions are likely to reside. Namely, with everyday people (a vast majority) that can use their agency to adapt to the nature-capped resources of our planet."

Though placing this revelation milestone precisely in history's timeline may be difficult, there is no question as to why it is relevant. The project, now over a year old, had been open for virtually anyone to see at anytime. But few did. The way to be heard was and is - organically. The thorough vetting organic methodology requires more time, especially in the beginning. But momentum builds exponentially on the reliable long-term foundations built from time-tested resources.

True Inventors

Ownership is a complex concept that deserves considerable thought. Whole professional industries have proliferated in the United States to sort out the complexity. Sometimes for the better and others, not so much.

Possession is nine tenths of the law. But an idea, a well thought out idea is perhaps the most valuable of 'possessions'.  Why? Because human success is largely derived from the adaptable nature of humans as applied to various desirable and changing elements in the human environment.

And yet 'ownership' of ideas is not so easy to control. Few would argue with the concept of creator(s) as first owner. It is not difficult to identify first owners - the concept of priority date. But ideas are subject to humans extraordinary ability to communicate. Distribution can be hard to control (in the possession sense).

Enter the ownership changers, the ones with power usually in the form of 'big' money and its equivalents. An attractive source of revenue (the money is reliably collectable), professionals notoriously favor being close to the deep pockets rather than true owners of idea value because they cannot or will not assume the risk of indeterminate future value.

Whistle Blowing

"Fox complicit in Google China breach?"

Illustrating just why electronic whistle blowing is so valuable. Questions have the power to mislead. Should we then avoid using them? Of course not. Then why is it argued that very loosely supported claims have validity equal to ones that are vetted to a larger extent?

Sometimes, it is because such false equivalence supports an agenda. Controlling discourse is a cost effective means of maintaining economic disparity.  And when it happens, the most cost effective countermeasure is robust transparency.

We are fortunate to live in a time when rapid expansion of interactive communications available to most of the world's population is profitable to some transnational companies. Instead of wealth-hoarding modulating innovation, societal value is beginning to re-assert. There is economic incentive for it to happen and risk capital is available for expansion as a result.

It is a time for cautious optimism.  As stated before, the risk is in the reaction of old power to this new trend.

Need a New Drug

Learn?

"The rising tide of friendly as the new powerful has caused a curious scrambling of the opposition. The value of deception, destruction and manipulation as tactics is in rapid decline. The danger is acts of desperation in the transition. We are blessed with leadership and tools in this precarious time, for which I am thankful."

Conflict seems to loom large with just a little over a month to the new year.  "Too much information." is heard often by those wishing that things would stay conveniently the same.  Others embrace change and revere its robust orderly advance as arguably best embodied in the double helix 'software' of life.

As abstraction engines, we human minds are constantly seeking the formulas for reality so that our limited analytical capacity can be allocated to anomalies. But the architecture, which often serves us well, has a vulnerability. The abstractions, for whatever reason, are sometimes inappropriately applied with disastrous outcomes.

Along comes a concept somewhere in our history of the notion of technology-assisted scalable friendship ...

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Decoys Obsoleting

"Even if we never find the hidden files there is enough in the damn cloud to give them all they need to track down the rest."

"He knew what he was doing.  Thirty four years … not exactly sitting on his hands."

Competition Response

"But his system, we stopped it and we discredited any speculation that that was our intention."

"Yes, now both he and we know that was not what would have foiled an otherwise flawless plan. Have you contacted Singapore yet?"

"Right and what would I tell them? Flawless, you have got to be kidding. You scramble of few jets, grab headlines to obscure the exposure and you think it was a thorough plan.  You know, I'll bet the Hunts were confident sometime shortly before their cornering plan's meltdown too."

This dialog jumped out of the system monitor as if it was a recording.  Yet, it did not surprise them.  Not anymore. The buildup to this capability was rapid but smooth, becoming more lifelike imperceptibly. Now the social glue pattern rendered in sharp relief. And it was anything but unremarkable.

Breathing Conspiracy

"Losing their grip? So many rumblings of late point to something that should not be ignored. Does the leadership know? It is a matter of degrees, is it not?

Lets pretend ...

"Sedgewick, what do we really know about what goes on there? Surely more than Toto did. And to be honest, they were not even on the radar until just a few weeks ago. And I had been looking for names to fit profiles developed over a year long period. The idea that somebody is fabricating a theory for some kind of thrill is not supported by the documented history."

Only safe because without all the documents, those with a strong interest in secrecy cannot exercise their full remedial 'arsenal'. The cloud changes everything. Public key encryption, worldwide distribution of provisional assets, automatic trigger without periodic inhibit, supply side misinformation strategy and related countermeasures ...

Who's watching. Well, some we know, others not. Like friendly as the new powerful, shared awareness works far better for the interests of the many rather than the few. A few morally corrupt owners vs. almost everyone else.

Clooney could make a lot more doing shallow scripts on a big budget. He has honor instead. No wonder why the deep thought women admire him so much.

Power, Energy - Transportation & Other Stuff

"Combustible fuels are relatively inexpensive and energy dense, though polluting. With high enough efficiency much less harmful to the environment though. A turbine engine can be efficient if there is careful load control. Small number of moving parts too. Magnetics are superior to most in power distribution and leverage (motor, alternator). Differential gearing (dif. torque converter, power-split device in Toyota).  Solid-state thermoelectric heat pump for bi-directional heat/cooling and energy generation. High temperature fuel cell (or was it a chemical battery) for energy storage uses exhaust heat of hydrocarbon power source.

Giving thanks. Once a year.

The concept of using planetary gearing as a continuously variable transmission was disclosed in the mid to late1960s and notarized then in Longview, Washington. Adaptation of the concept has resulted in a number of innovative applications including the Toyata Hybrid Synergy Drive's power-split device. The notarized disclosure mentioned a Power Speed Reference. It would act like a grid in a vacuum tube - controlling a much high plate current with a small voltage and very small current signal (on the grid of said tube)

More than 40 years ago at this time of year, imagination had found a home on Thanksgiving holiday in the Liverpool of the Pacific NW. It was a small station, but it rocked. As the songs of a generation played a pencil and steno pad, all that were necessary to verify it was not just a nocturnal dream. Or even some runaway daydream. No, this was real.  The kind everyone shares. Consistent with physical laws. And millions of machines around the world.

"Some, but not all, intellectual property given to the public. Supply-side corruption reduction solution. Has a sort of rhythm to it. There are private ways to accomplish the goal of insuring fairness in economic freedom. When population size is empowered, ownership has met its match. We are there, now."

So many ideas, a country famous for freedom and liberty ... seems the right thing to do. The recent corruption of ownership in our society has necessitated a grassroots adjustment to the concept of fairness. Externalizing costs by short-term thinkers has caused far too much suffering to the peoples of our precious planet.  So in the spirit of the season, we must once again, get control of the spoiled adolescents by mitigating the reckless use of money and power and do it as the wise ancients who have gone before advised, with compassion.

As discussed here before and addressed in detail by Buckminster Fuller we pay to high a price for continuing specialization based on outdated field of interests.  Silos of expertise have too long dominated the adaptive nature of human ingenuity.

NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider it a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been addressed in it, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN


© 2010 Buzz Hill

Hallelujah

Thanksgiving. Just my wife and our only child. Me in a broken down kitchen chair that needs replacing. No turkey, no fire in the fireplace, no extended family.

But thankful, yes thankful. No one shelling our island of peace. No one yelling at us that we should be angry or afraid. Sadness that old unwelcome friend did not even show.

Yes, best thanksgiving ever. Beautiful girls and they are both mine. And I theirs. The food out of this world and mom's studio the coziest spot I can remember. The sound of the acoustic ax. Their voices sublime.

And they sang and I felt, Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Variation Not Too Far

"The broad application of balance? My thinking here is along the line of knowing how to define the optimal state in dynamic conditions.  When to rely on external sense and control and when to generate it internally.  Whether the transition should be abrupt or, more probably, gradual.

Within Expectation

"While externalizing cost based on spacial or other frozen time dimensions is an issue that is discussed at length the one to consider in this context is change in one or more dimensions over time. Time's near field measured in, say, fractions of seconds to minutes is much different than a far field of weeks to years."

She felt it and he analyzed it. The magic occurred when a substantive conversation between them occurred on the subject. The system monitor this morning was a fascinating mix of a caring paradigm based on matrix manipulation and understanding it on social terms. The setup may be just about perfect. They both could only feel it so far, though.

"Who is afraid of George Soros?"

"Where did that come from?"

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Fair Exchange of Value

"Arm's length professional interaction would serve all interests best even the ones that have potential to transcend the business nature of the deal at hand."

Yes, they will understand.

"Lets work through the check list then. And after enumerating the items  take another look at prioritization."

The key support resource favors one party over the other. The issue of ownership under the right circumstances can mitigate the disparity.

It is not wise to subsidize freedom that is not fairly shared. Sooner or later the consequences catch up. Each time we allow the aggressors to assert control we, in effect, encourage their belligerent behavior. Wait too long and it becomes difficult to correct the imbalance.

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