Showing posts with label control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label control. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Melchizedek Internet Warning Heard by Father of Internet - Censorship and Control dominate Creativity and Imagination



Technology

The father of the world wide web is one disappointed dad
 David Lumb,Engadget


The father of the world wide web is one disappointed dad


Today is the World Wide Web's 29th birthday, and to celebrate the occasion, its creator has told us how bad it's become. In an open letter appearing in The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee painted a bleak picture of the current internet -- one dominated by a handful of colossal platforms that have constricted innovation and obliterated the rich, lopsided archipelago of blogs and small sites that came before. It's not too late to change, Lee wrote, but to do so, we need a dream team of business, tech, government, civil workers, academics and artists to cooperate in building "the web we all want."

Lee reserves his biggest criticisms for the huge platforms -- by implication, Facebook and Google, among others -- that have come to dominate their spheres and effectively become gatekeepers. They "control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared," Lee wrote, pointing out that they're able to impede competition by creating barriers. "They acquire startup challengers, buy up new innovations and hire the industry's top talent. Add to this the competitive advantage that their user data gives them and we can expect the next 20 years to be far less innovative than the last."
Centralizing the web like this has lead to serious problems, like when an Amazon Web Services outage took down a chunk of internet services over a week ago -- ironically, nearly a year to the day after another similar web-crippling incident on AWS. But bottlenecking the internet through a handful of platforms has also enabled something more sinister: The weaponization of the internet. From trending conspiracy theories all the way up to influencing American politics using hundreds of fake social media accounts, outside actors have been able to maximize their manipulation efforts thanks to a far more centralized internet than we used to have, in Lee's opinion.

These companies are ill-equipped to work for social benefit given their focus on profit -- and perhaps could use some regulation. "The responsibility – and sometimes burden – of making these decisions falls on companies that have been built to maximise profit more than to maximise social good. A legal or regulatory framework that accounts for social objectives may help ease those tensions," wrote Lee.

You know who could fix the future of the internet? Us, of course -- a group of individuals from a broad cross-section of society who can outthink the hegemony of colossal internet corporations who are mostly fine with things as they are. Incentives could be the key to motivating new solutions, Lee concluded.

But there's another problem that business can't really solve: Closing the digital gap by getting the unconnected onto the internet. These are more likely to be female, poor, geographically remote and/or living outside of the first world. Bringing them into the fold will diversify voices on the internet and be, well, a moral thing to do now that the UN has decided internet access is a basic human right. But it'll take more than inventive business models to get them online and up to speed: We'll have to support policies that bring the internet to them over community networks and/or public access.

  • This article originally appeared on Engadget.

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Did you ever wonder, Who am I? - Not a typical American according to the polls - So who am I?



One would think, after the reasonably long life I have lived, I might have some idea of who am I.  How little we know.


Unbelievably, someone out there in cyberspace is compiling our history.  They do it by tracking, listening to, spying on, profiling, analyzing, dissecting, and brain washing us.


Somewhere in those monster computers that rule the world, everything there is to know about us exists.  Thanks to the Internet, they know our finances, interests, buying patterns, secret friends, appetite, both culinary and sexual, crimes, incomes, taxes and you name it.


Nothing is sacred.

I find it to be quite an annoyance and a bit unsettling.  However, as a realist, what else do we expect from our governments and corporate benefactors.  About the only thing they are good at is collecting all that personal stuff and having no idea what to do with it.


Because I have a tough time dealing with intangible things like the Internet or cyber space, we should have a name for that monster computer system.


Once when I was involved in the Society of the Mind, a group at the MIT Media Lab involved in artificial intelligence, I got to meet the great science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.  Clarke was about as far out as humans could be and he wrote the inspiration and screen play for an Oscar winning movie.


In the movie, 2001 Space Odyssey, HAL was the computer name, the same as the first name of a Congressman I worked for, but the movie gang used the letters because they preceded the initials of the largest computer company at the time, IBM.  That is clever.


Today we need a new name to reflect the proliferation of computer companies and the way our identity and every move is under scrutiny and monitored.


I say we call it, hum, how about "Alice" - in honor of Alice in Wonderland where nothing is as it seems.  I love Lewis Carroll.  Hardcore Geeks can relate to Alice's world.  But no, I think not.


On the other hand, J.R.R. Tolkein, another of my favorite authors, once posed a riddle and the answer is my name for the sinister clump of computers controlling the world, as we know it.  How can you not like an author with three first names?


Here is the riddle:

“This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.”

                        -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

The answer:

TIME...

Therefore, we shall call our master computer "TIME," an acronym for "The Intelligent Mind Enigma," which I guess means the only place to find intelligence is in a computer, stupid humans no longer count.


What does TIME tell me about me?


Every day a variety of emails arrive from somewhere out there in cyber space so these must certainly be the results of the TIME analysis of the subject, me.


First, I must be undersexed to a substantial degree, or sexually impotent, because there are Viagra and Cialis offers nearly every day to treat my erectile dysfunction.  How does TIME know about what I do or do not do in bed?


Second, and what might support my undersexed condition, is the array of choices for a partner in life.  Some days TIME thinks I need to Mingle with Christian women, some days Jewish women,  some days Russian, Black, Asian, and European women, all in the interest of finding me the perfect match.


With such an amazing variety of women available to me, I must be classified as some kind of new kaleidoscope in the color spectrum when it comes to race and color as my choices go beyond the rainbow.

Russian Women

Okay, so each day I receive TIME generated instructions on my sexual inadequacies and my choices in female companionship.

Israeli Women

Other daily occurrences are the executive job offers, the stories matched to my interests, which include everything from politics to nature, environment to hunger, GMO to pharmaceutical drugs, Republican to Democrat, and about a dozen stock tips to become an overnight Bill Gates.


Because I am a journalist and choose to write about everything, TIME is confused about my interests.  The computer does not believe humans can have such a varied interest as I indicate but humans may not be the only thing that is stupid.


Every screen I get on the Internet with the sole exception of The Coltons Point Times, which I write and still control, every other screen has virtually layers of virtual ads from the virtual warehouse of TIME.


Note; The Coltons Point Times does not allow ads of any kind, does not collect any email or other personal information on you, and does not participate in any collection of info other than basic data telling me where my readers live and what they read.  All readers are autonomous.


TIME, that monster computer in cyberspace, is nothing more than a computer that collects everything, converts it to a digital electrical impulse, identifies everything there is to know about us, and has no clue what it means to be human.


TIME decides what is in our best interest based on our digital profile and probability analysis.  Guess what, I am neither predictable nor probable.  I live my life to disrupt all settled ideas while TIME functions as if all information is already settled.


Today I intend to disrupt TIME.  I shall disallow system upgrades (no one really knows where upgrades come from), turn off the Internet, cut off power to my computer, and go listen to music.  Let TIME try to analyze how that affects my profile.


I suppose, tomorrow I will have spam instructions on Mental Institutions if TIME works.

By the way, the TIME master computer is in all probability, a slave to more master computers of the intelligence agencies, corporations, churches, and all the other information parasites.


Stop digital domination.  Break digital dependence.  Do not be a digit eejit!


Be free - control technology, or be controlled by technology!


.

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Who am I? - Not a typical American according to the polls - So who am I? Just a modern Slave to Technology

Welcome to the New World Order where Slavery is supposed to make you feel good and artificial intelligence has hijacked your imagination and mind.




One would think, after the reasonably long life I have lived, I might have some idea of who am I.  How little we know.


Unbelievably, someone out there in cyberspace is compiling our history.  They do it by tracking, listening to, spying on, profiling, analyzing, dissecting, and brain washing us.


Somewhere in those monster computers that rule the world, everything there is to know about us exists.  Thanks to the Internet, they know our finances, interests, buying patterns, secret friends, appetite, both culinary and sexual, crimes, incomes, taxes and you name it.


Nothing is sacred.

I find it to be quite an annoyance and a bit unsettling.  However, as a realist, what else do we expect from our governments and corporate benefactors.  About the only thing they are good at is collecting all that personal stuff and having no idea what to do with it.


Because I have a tough time dealing with intangible things like the Internet or cyber space, we should have a name for that monster computer system.


Once when I was involved in the Society of the Mind, a group at the MIT Media Lab involved in artificial intelligence, I got to meet the great science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.  Clarke was about as far out as humans could be and he wrote the inspiration and screen play for an Oscar winning movie.


In the movie, 2001 Space Odyssey, HAL was the computer name, the same as the first name of a Congressman I worked for, but the movie gang used the letters because they preceded the initials of the largest computer company at the time, IBM.  That is clever.


Today we need a new name to reflect the proliferation of computer companies and the way our identity and every move is under scrutiny and monitored.


I say we call it, hum, how about "Alice" - in honor of Alice in Wonderland where nothing is as it seems.  I love Lewis Carroll.  Hardcore Geeks can relate to Alice's world.  But no, I think not.


On the other hand, J.R.R. Tolkein, another of my favorite authors, once posed a riddle and the answer is my name for the sinister clump of computers controlling the world, as we know it.  How can you not like an author with three first names?


Here is the riddle:

“This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.”

                        -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

The answer:

TIME...

Therefore, we shall call our master computer "TIME," an acronym for "The Intelligent Mind Enigma," which I guess means the only place to find intelligence is in a computer, stupid humans no longer count.


What does TIME tell me about me?


Every day a variety of emails arrive from somewhere out there in cyber space so these must certainly be the results of the TIME analysis of the subject, me.


First, I must be undersexed to a substantial degree, or sexually impotent, because there are Viagra and Cialis offers nearly every day to treat my erectile dysfunction.  How does TIME know about what I do or do not do in bed?


Second, and what might support my undersexed condition, is the array of choices for a partner in life.  Some days TIME thinks I need to Mingle with Christian women, some days Jewish women,  some days Russian, Black, Asian, and European women, all in the interest of finding me the perfect match.


With such an amazing variety of women available to me, I must be classified as some kind of new kaleidoscope in the color spectrum when it comes to race and color as my choices go beyond the rainbow.

Russian Women

Okay, so each day I receive TIME generated instructions on my sexual inadequacies and my choices in female companionship.

Israeli Women

Other daily occurrences are the executive job offers, the stories matched to my interests, which include everything from politics to nature, environment to hunger, GMO to pharmaceutical drugs, Republican to Democrat, and about a dozen stock tips to become an overnight Bill Gates.


Because I am a journalist and choose to write about everything, TIME is confused about my interests.  The computer does not believe humans can have such a varied interest as I indicate but humans may not be the only thing that is stupid.


Every screen I get on the Internet with the sole exception of The Coltons Point Times, which I write and still control, every other screen has virtually layers of virtual ads from the virtual warehouse of TIME.


Note; The Coltons Point Times does not allow ads of any kind, does not collect any email or other personal information on you, and does not participate in any collection of info other than basic data telling me where my readers live and what they read.  All readers are autonomous.


TIME, that monster computer in cyberspace, is nothing more than a computer that collects everything, converts it to a digital electrical impulse, identifies everything there is to know about us, and has no clue what it means to be human.


TIME decides what is in our best interest based on our digital profile and probability analysis.  Guess what, I am neither predictable nor probable.  I live my life to disrupt all settled ideas while TIME functions as if all information is already settled.


Today I intend to disrupt TIME.  I shall disallow system upgrades (no one really knows where upgrades come from), turn off the Internet, cut off power to my computer, and go listen to music.  Let TIME try to analyze how that affects my profile.


I suppose, tomorrow I will have spam instructions on Mental Institutions if TIME works.

By the way, the TIME master computer is in all probability, a slave to more master computers of the intelligence agencies, corporations, churches, and all the other information parasites.


Stop digital domination.  Break digital dependence.  Do not be a digit eejit!


Be free - control technology, or be controlled by technology!


.