Maybe we should look at this future of ours more
geometrically.
Perhaps Gordon Moore found the tip
of an iceberg extending beyond small transistors?
First a sequence of events
triggered very rapid progress
in computer chip technology.
History though must be the guide
or main driver of our societial doubling.
- Population growth on the other
extreme may actually be slowing!
- Resource access to typical
individuals is growing worldwide.
- Miniaturization allows higher economic
densities than previous posssible.
- Mechanical density increases follows
informational concentrations in chips
and mass storage systems.
So two counter acting forces
are at work in our world today as
we view them objectively.
- Higher technology density with concurrent consumption.
- An influence of education reducing population.
What are we going to do in our
standard interpretation of events
through conventional expection?
Perhaps we will have glasses affixed to
our perception to take in much more
reality than today?
Alternatively, we continue to create
vehicles in our financial world to
represent these concentrations of value
and commerce. Typically we encounter
yet another financial derivative. How
about micropayments through networks of
cards or networks?
The doubling will take one mechanistic
characteristics with small machines. The
value conferred by those machines scales
up to affect the society, its ownership.
Doubling may permit forces to influence
entire populations. Singular hierarchies
will try and steer these micromachines and
nanomachines to institute policies, some
that oppress others!
Doubling, watch out for it, take
it in and wrest it away from those acting
to envelope the many. Let us instead take
it as a way to freedom for us divesting bounds while
in turn leading to satify others thirst for
power without the need of mass enslavement.
Saturday, 24-Sep-2005 23:47:54 CDT
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