<YAR> >First i should be clear that the Mexicans are not stupid. i know, and went to >school with many. No lack of knowledge there ... or in the world generally. >Their nutrition and sanitation is in aggregate better than the US`s (it is the >worlds largest 3rd world country by population. We are known as the home of >private splendour and public squalor - though the popular mythology is >different).
>We already have the patents and IP to solve all our problems. The problem is >the conversion of that knowledge into what i am calling wisdom - the >actualization of solutions. Current knowledge is adequate, current >connectivity (clouds etc) is sufficient. Yes advanced forms of computing would >be nice, but they are unnecessary to the actualization. >Velocity of financial transactions, which i agree is a severe problem. It >gives no benefit to the general population, and is even contraindicated by >economists. A simple, very small, tax on transactions would eliminate (or >titrate) that problem. This "Tobin tax" has been known well for decades, but >has not been implemented. >One could solve the energy problem with off the shelf technology - Thorium >fission or LFTRs. One does not even need to pay a few intellectuals to look at >Fusion solutions (like Lerners Focused Fusion). Perhaps one needs to go >outside the establishment though to change it (i do notice that one of the >only investors in LPP (Focused Fusion) is Iran, definitely outside of the >system:) But too much talk like that would get one branded as a commie, or i >guess the modern day bugaboo is the terrorist. >Are the 99% terrorists because the 1% will not let solutions ALREADY THERE >happen? Or maybe we are just stupid, and malfeasance is not the problem. But >why so much knowledge, patents, connectivity etc? >Maybe real funding should be crowd sourced. We already are taxed, just >consider that lost money, and tithe to a ~solution_revolution. Maybe it is >time for the technocrats to take their turn at governance, the current >governors have lost all credibility - even they admit it. i say lets try a >dictatorship of sysops! We just need to make them iPreak with a little aikido. >It is time to debug society - that is the true meaning of "do no evil" (just >google it). <YetAnotherRant/> ---~ http://u.tgu.ca/Lerner-Google_Talk http://u.tgu.ca/solution_revolution greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 19 October 2013 18:13 subject: Re: [Jchat] Google, NASA explain quantum computing and making mincemeat of big data — Tech News and Analysis Yes. There are several issues here, which I am aware of. >One has to do with nutrition for children. Healthy brain development needs >good food. >One has to with economic theory. For example, our current theories place a >significant emphasis on "velocity" and our electronic trading systems give us >a lot of velocity in the exchange of currency but do not do a thing for the >associated thinking and human interactions. (There's also a problem in that >the exchanged packets are not encrypted and to be competitive people must >write programs to make decisions on the exchanged offers before the packet has >been fully transmitted.) Anyways a consequence is that our money supply gets >disconnected from the efforts which would have made it valuable. >Fortunately there's a relatively simple solution to that problem (though one >that requires a lot of work). Basically: solve the childhood nutrition problem >(and back it up with internet connectivity, for people that are interested in >that). >And there are other issues also. One, for example, that I think is really >important (but which I am not comfortable explaining my reasoning on) has to >with indoor plumbing and disease propagation. Thanks, Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
