I have just finished reading an article about nicoli tesla - he invented ac electricity and also , contrary to popular belief, radio. The current US proposal of a missle defence shield (the version that creates a shield similar to microwaves to disable incomming warheads) differs from one of teslas patents by only 3 small differences, evolutions that have only been possible through advanced mathematical modelling available now through computers. As he invented AC electricity AND radio I suppose he is justified in being called the father of the 20th century. What has fascinated me is an invention tesla was perfecting (apparantly the principles are reasonably sound - however the US government holds all the workings) that sent electricity in a manner similar to radio waves, allowing electricity to be "recieved" from anywhere on earth by bouncing thiese waves off the ionosphere (I think, it was definately some atmospheric component). Tesla was not the most economic minded person and as such spent all his money and then some on his inventions. He sold the patent for AC electricity to bell and they then helped set up the national grid. As Tesla was (again) running out of money, he sold the idea to bell (radio electricity) and nothing came of it. The reason nothing came of it is simple in economic reasoning. How do you make money if people can tap into this electricity for free. This is the reason why with our current mindset, truly wonderful developments are nigh on impossible. If you cant make money from it, how do you justify the development costs, how are you rewarded for your effort, how does your company recieve a tangible benefit. This is a major hurdle. Imagine all cars running on electricity FOR FREE no CO2 no filling up etc etc. I find it implausible that things like this should not be allowed to happen but they arent. This is one example of I am sure a plethora of other ideas that would benefit us in all sorts of positive ways but extinguish power(excuse the pun) from those who hold it, conspiracy theories abound on such inventions, and by the massive number of them, the chances of 1 of them being true is pretty high. So quality is thwarted. This leads to an intersting phenomena, if quality is the driving force of all of nature, which is well explained by Mr Pirsig, then does our unique ability to control our environment somehow give us the ability to circumvent some of the evolutionary prowess of quality? Evolution shows that animals are a product of their environment, and this product is shaped by quality, as is the environment itself, all together in a harmonious accord being driven (or pulled as the train analogy in Zen depicts) by quality. We have for whatever reason, evolved to the stage where we can survive in almost all known environs, through technology we have created for ourselves a device that creates something similar to quality found in nature, however this is pseudo quality, we have invented it and as such it cannot be the real thing, as we ourselves are a product of the real thing. Our minds however seem to struggle to use this immensly powerful pseudo quality in a way that is harmonious to true quality and as such the 2 qualities are battling at an obtuse angle. This begs the question that if animals are a product of their environment, and this environment is driven by quality, then do we, due to our ability to control our environment in such a massive way, control our own evolution, and as such control quality. I would say that we dont control quality, but this pseudo quality we have control over is powerful enough to subvert our attention enough to render true quality almost benign. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and when that little knowledge is applied to something as all encompassing as the quality concept the results could be (and have been)devastating. enjoy evolve david wilkinson _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
