On Feb 26, 2:40*pm, William Mook wrote:
On Feb 25, 10:27*pm, "Jonathan" wrote:



"William Mook" wrote in message

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Today's Google Earth & Sketchup will be replaced with seamless
realtime interactive Virtual Overlay Experience (VOX). * So, a laptop
is replaced by a pair of glasses and gloves. *A cell phone is replaced
by a headphone and microphone set.

Now we're talking! *Even virtual telepathy someday.
Think a name, and ...say 'hello'! Or should I say
'think hello'?

The bulk of humanity, connected to each other in real time.
Imagine the possibilities of that kind of massive parallel
connectivity.

Where a good rumor, story or idea, causes humanity to 'tremble'
as one. A brain, not made up of countless neurons, but countless
intelligent minds. Where even the weakest cries in the night
can summon the combined weight of humanity for aid and
comfort.

Producing a collective wisdom every bit the definition of God
which, when needed, 'speaks' to each and everyone alike.

And the millennia old schism between science and religion at last
comes to an end. So science, heaven, humanity, and religion
coevolves into one-in-the-same.

* * *"Heaven is so far of the Mind
* * *That were the Mind dissolved
* * * The Site of it by Architect
* * * Could not again be proved

* * *'Tis vast as our Capacity
* * *As fair as our idea
* * *To Him of adequate desire
* * * No further 'tis, than Here "

Mathematics can prove only one thing when it comes to the real world.
That humanity is destined to swim in unspeakable joy!

* * "To tell the beauty would decrease,
* * * To state the Spell demean,
* * * There is a syllableless sea
* * * Of which it is the sign."

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Well, that's an interface beyond the one I've imagined, but I do
believe it will come. *Arthur Clarke wrote of what you describe in
2061. *Back in 1968 Clarke also wrote Lion of Comarre - wherein he
describes a city where all the inhabitants live in a virtual reality
(though Vernor Vinge in Bookworm Run in 1966. *William Gibson and
others added flesh to it, and serious research didn't start until the
mid-80s.

Though I have been thinking about it since the 60s.

In addition to the peta-bit data link backbone I've described above,
there is a way of mobilizing resource as you say - in response to
human will.

One of the issues is that our beliefs about government and markets do
not comport with reality. *This explains the failures of society to
resolve long-standing issues and suggests that fresh thinking can
resolve them very simply.

Ths flies in the face of popular notions about people being the fault
of their conditions, along with cuationary tales of misfortune and
hopeful tales of people overcoming adversity. *Very much the same
emotions swirled around the Royal Rights of Kings back in the day when
everyone knew for sure that God wouldn't suffer an evil tyrant. *The
same stories of failure, retribution and success were used to defend
those notions.

The emotive stories and how people are controlled by them are
recounted by Alice Miller, in her book DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD.
This explains our fascination with violence, power, wealth and
limitless growth of appetite. *These are not natural impulses, but
only seem natural to a society where all members suffer the same
mental illness.

The specific failures of our economy and government processes are
recounted by Ken Arrow received a Nobel Prize in 1971 by showing that
money and votes don't work. *This is detailed in SOCIAL CHOICE AND
HUMAN VALUES.

I have modified the work of Gerard Medioni in controlling robotic
resources with tensor measures to resolve the issues related by
Arrow. *Implemented in a distributed array of digital agents, this is
the first operating layer of the grand strategy you recount here -
where the entire weight of human conciousness comes to bear upon the
needs and desires of each of us who are part of the human community.

I have summarized some of these thoughts here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istE1bpoDPg

In short, we have;

(1) telecom backbone
(2) tensor decision making
(3) telepresence/telerobotics
(4) semi-autonomou operation
(5) fully autonomous operation
(6) self-replicating machines

I have described here the first two layers - folks like Honda and
others are working on elements of the third layer. AI researchers
along with growth toward the singulariy are working on the balance.

In the end we will have the sort of world Jonathan envisions and it
will be wonderful.