Looking Back From 2057
Tuesday May 26th 2009, 2:00 am
Filed under: Video Tips + More

Introduction

Well, its been an exciting century for me starting with the launch of the Russian satellite, Sputnik in 1957 and ending with the first space elevator on my 100th birthday in 2057. Its also been a sad and depressing time too with various wars and conflicts but it all worked out for us all in the end.

The really frustrating thing is we could have done much of this years ago and saved our selves so much grief, but we didn’t partly because we didn’t know how but mostly because of greed, self-interest and an astonishing lack of vision.

We have lost many things but gained so much more in return. Gone are many of the huge corporations, out-manoeuvred by many smaller, more nimble companies as predicted by “The Cluetrain Manifesto” and “Dingoes and Lions”.

Entertainment

Like many industries, the music industry had to die before it could be re-born. Lets face it, any organisation that sees its own customers as potential criminals is definitely on the way out. In those days, music and movies were distributed on plastic discs (called CDs or DVDs) and billions were spent on preventing people from doing what they did naturally - sharing.

Various methods were tried to prevent this, DRM (Digital Rights Management) was the most obnoxious partly because it prevented people from making copies (to use in their other players) but mostly because it “locked out” competitors.

The result was that :-

1. Most people ended up with unplayable disks due to incompatible DRM systems or companies going out of business.

2. The “pirates” removed any copy prevention and made the music tracks available on the original Internet.

3. People found it much easier to download from the “pirates” than to buy a “legal” disk and run the risk that it would be unplayable.

4. The music industry got more desperate and aggressive until they were sued out of existence by their top performers, who had grown tired of the negative publicity and had found a much better way to distributed and promote their music - the Internet.

There was a brief flirtation with high capacity disks like “Blue Ray” and “HD DVD” but the public got so tired of paying vast sums on new, incompatible formats that they either stuck with the original DVD (Dual Layer 7.5GB) format or just downloaded everything from the Internet.

These days not only is it legal, its encouraged. You can copy any piece of music, video or literature to anyone or any device. As soon as you have listened or viewed 75% of it, the author gets a one-off micro-payment automatically.

In fact many artists gave much of their work away for free knowing that if it was good enough it would be copied millions of times and they would become household names very quickly. Another advantage of giving your work away was that you could attach contact and gig details to each track so every time you had a concert/gig/etc all your fans were informed automatically.

The movie industry was also on the endangered list but saw what was coming just in time. Even so, its still a fraction of its original size. Gone are the great actors and actresses (replaced with virtual actors), gone are the studios (replaced with virtual studios) and gone are fixed ’story lines’. In those days a “movie” was just a fixed sequence of images played one after the other very fast, you couldn’t alter the story line, change the characters or view each scene from different viewpoints like you can now. The main driver for all of this was the game industry, they had been doing this kind of thing for years.

The way we watched things radically altered when huge, flexible video displays became cheap enough to be used as wallpaper. These were bright enough to replace lights too. Many people used one wall to watch programs and the others to display virtual, swimming fish as a form of relaxation (Bit like the early screen-savers).

Communication

The original Internet was classed as “disruptive technology” because it enabled the human race to communicate across the world in so many different ways much to the annoyance of the media who preferred to keep information artificially scarce and expensive.

Things really got interesting when Internet3 came on-line. This new network was a mix of the older Internet2 and NASA’s revamped deep space network. Not only could you communicate with anyone or thing on planet Earth, you could reach people on the many orbiting space platforms, the Moon bases, the Mars base and any other planet in our solar system.

Energy

For quite a long time, electricity was generated solely by “Power Stations” from either Oil, Gas, Coal, Nuclear Fission (later by Nuclear Fusion), Solar and Wind/Wave turbines. As you can imagine, these were huge, dirty, expensive and inefficient.

The power was distributed along cables strung between huge metal towers called “pylons” to all parts of the country. It was transmitted at a very high voltage but stepped down to around 100 ~ 240 volts AC. Most buildings had some kind of “mains” supply connected to several power outlets (or sockets) that you could connect various appliances to.

The main problem with this system was that power-cuts were frequent and when they happened, entire cities were plunged into darkness. Another problem was that AC power is very hard to store in any useful quantity making unexpected surges expensive to deal with.

These days, all buildings are energy self-sufficient and come complete with solar tiles, mini-wind generators and storage batteries. Most electronic equipment runs directly from the batteries which are in turn charged from the sun, wind, fuel-cells or any other available power source.

Commerce

These days, the basic essentials of life are free like water, certain foods and shelter. This was just a another extension UK’s NHS (National Health Service) where treatment was free at the point of need but paid for by everyone. When this was first introduced many people tried to live for free but soon got bored of drinking water, eating the same boring food and being unable to go anywhere or do anything interesting. Another side effect was another huge layer of bureaucracy was removed.

Another change was tax. In the old days huge numbers of “tax inspectors” were needed to collect a tax from everyone. These days its automatic, you get paid, your credit is updated and the state gets a small percentage.

A major change was the accountability of corporations. The laws of the time assigned the same rights to a corporation as to an individual. The problem was that the character of many corporations could be described as greedy, paranoid and psychopathic. It was the early Internet that made exposing these much easier and faster. After a few high profile “melt downs”, many of the more “psychopathic” corporations where given the same treatment as an individual would have got.

The way companies are run has changed a lot too. In the bad old days, companies would grow and grow until they imploded under their own weight. These days things are more dynamic, some companies form to produce a one-off product and dissolve soon after. Many behave like ‘cells’, when they reach a certain size, they divide into separate entities. This kept them very lean and competitive, and most importantly - fun.

Things are much simpler these days too. Walk into shop. Look in special mirror and see your self in a selection of clothes as if you were wearing them. Real-time 3D digitising and overlays. No need to be measured, the 3D digitiser captured all your measurements and feed them to the machine that would make your clothes.

Law and Order

Crime, though still present, has been much reduced. It all started in 2009 when a woman was burgled but found the burglar by searching through real-time satellite images of her house via an Internet sat-map service. It was simple to find an image of her house at the time the burglar entered and follow him back to his flat half a mile away. She presented the images to the local police force who “nicked” him.

Another form of crime called “shoplifting” also disappeared when tiny tracking devices called “RFID” were built into every sellable item. To purchase all you had to do was pick up the item at a shop and walk out. As soon as you walked through the shop door, your credit card was automatically debited by the cost of the item. Anyone daft enough to do this with an “empty” credit card was tracked by the RFID in the item and dealt with.

Biometrics also played a part as many things (like cars, computers) would not work with any unauthorised person so stealing them was pointless unless you could get round the biometric security system which was expensive.

Micro MRI scanners make police work so easy now. Round up the suspects for questioning and the scanner will soon know who is lying or not based on their brain patterns.

Space

With an ever expanding population complicated by people living longer the only way was up. It started with things like the International Space Station but when space travel got cheaper huge multi-purpose space platforms were constructed. These originally housed engineers and scientists but soon grew when more modules were added like space telescopes, factories, hospitals and even hotels.

These days, space travel is routine. Many people go into space to visit friends living on the space platforms or take tours. I went up a couple of years back to watch a space probe being assembled and launched to study some primitive life on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. I saw two people recover an old communications satellite. No one uses those any more - the space platforms do that job too. I also had a quick look at the telescope control room and spent the night in the hotel. Its a weird experience when you move from the outer ring were most of the people live and work (normal gravity), past the middle ring where the hospice / hospital / research areas, to the hub were most of the equipment is (no gravity).

Some people choose to spend their last days (and cash) in space, the cash helped fund space development along with some medical research. A lot of disabled people also worked in space too, no need for functional legs (or a wheel chair) when you worked in zero G.

The long awaited “Space Elevator” is nearly operational now. It took years to find a material that could be stretched 62,000 miles and withstand continuous lightning strikes. There are hundreds of companies bidding to build the huge platforms that will be anchored at strategic locations along its length. At the end they fixed an asteroid. I heard they were going to put a centrifugal launch platform there too.

Weather

For the very first time, the human race had some useful control over the weather. The space platforms had a continuous read-out of the global weather condition. This data was feed to super computers which in turn controlled huge space mirrors. If the gulf stream started to slow, just reflect some of the Sun’s energy to that point to help the evaporation process. If there was a hurricane brewing near the American coast, the computers would angle the mirrors to gently heat the surrounding areas and disrupt the hurricane creation process. By subtly heating and cooling certain strategic locations, rain could be encouraged in fall in useful places. Huge areas of desert were made habitat able by this method.

Reference and Inspiration

“The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual” by Locke, Weinberger, Searls & Levine

“Dingoes and Lions” by David Chan.

Peter Blue is currently involved with two Internet start-ups
http://www.rarelist.co.uk/ - Rare book community

http://www.eventprompt.co.uk/ - Reminders and music uploads

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Maybe Some Day Teacher Training Will Include Powerful, Real-World Interventions Like These
Tuesday May 26th 2009, 12:46 am
Filed under: Video Tips + More

If you know a student who utterly lacks motivation
and interest for school, keep reading. Taken from our
Quickest Kid Fixer-Uppers Books, here are
novel, unexpected ways to turnaround apathetic, bored,
unmotivated, disinterested, at risk, negative students.
Once you’ve used these methods, you may find that
you are finally working with motivated, hopeful,
interested students who recognize the incredible

value of school.

*** If Life Were This Easy: Use this intervention with
students who think your services are a waste of time.
To use this intervention, read or show one sentence
of the following text, one sentence at a time. Allow students to laugh and snicker at each sentence before revealing the next phrase. This intervention
works really well, and is fun. Enjoy!

Here’s your new, high-paying job– and you can never
be fired from it!

Here’s your new, beautiful spouse, who is always
cheerful, never sick, and has tons of money!

Hope you like your new home. It’s your dream house
and it’s paid for, and will never need repairs!

Here’s all the possessions you’ve ever wanted, and,
of course, they are already paid for!

If life were this easy, you wouldn’t need us!

*** Sign This: Use this intervention with
students who think your services are useless. This
device is especially designed for older, harder-
edged kids, and is not appropriate for younger
kids and other youth. Please be thoughtful about
using it as it is very surprising and unusual– but
powerful and effective. Be sure this device is
appropriate to your site and community.

The next time you are having students signing forms,
and completing paperwork tasks, simply include the
text from the document below in the stack of papers,
then put that paper away until another time. The
next time a student tells you for the “hundredth”
time that your school or agency is a waste, have
the child review the following contract they signed.

This rather wordy document essentially says: “I
don’t want to be allowed to do anything I like,”
(or use other similarly surprising content.) When
the child says that they wouldn’t have signed
the document if they’d understood it, you can
respond: “Then maybe we still have something
to offer you here.”

The undersigned agrees to never attempt any
participation, commitment or interest in any
event, sport, past time, etc. that is a favorite
or preferred selection. The undersigned wishes
to never perform any favored activities including
but not limited to use of electronics, telephony,
etc. for the next millennium or longer.

Get much more information on this topic at
http://www.youthchg.com. Author Ruth
Herman Wells MS is the director of Youth Change,
(http://www.youthchg.com). Sign up for her free
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see hundreds more of her innovative methods. Ruth
is the author of dozens of books and provides workshops and training.
For re-print permission for this article, contact the author by

email (dwells@youthchg.com.)

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Xanax Drug Test
Sunday May 24th 2009, 8:44 pm
Filed under: End Users, Lifestyle Infos, University of Health

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YMT Vacations
Sunday May 24th 2009, 6:50 pm
Filed under: End Users, Lifestyle Infos, Travel Stuff

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Nursery Decor - Where Can Mom Look?
Friday May 22nd 2009, 11:11 am
Filed under: Uncategorized

Moms-to-be are increasingly looking to the internet as they begin the process of decorating their nurseries. The choices available to them for crib bedding and nursery décor accessories expands more every day. The question is are internet retailers of baby bedding and accessories up to the task of helping Mom sort through the choices and find her unique solution.

With the explosion in popular character and themed crib bedding being made available by numerous manufacturers, there are now hundreds, maybe thousands, of choices for Mom. Gone are the days when she purchased a relatively ordinary crib bumper, dust ruffle, quilt, and sheet, and then searched for interesting decorative pieces to complete the nursery décor. Manufacturers are now continually releasing new crib bedding sets and coordinated accessories that are based on a wide variety of decorating themes. In addition to the standard crib pieces, these collections often include coordinating mobiles, hampers, pillows, night lights, valances, diaper stackers, light switch plate covers, bookends, lamps, and other accessories.

It is almost impossible for any one store to carry more than a limited number of the available collections or more than a sampling of the most popular decorating accessories for those collections. In shopping at stores, Mom is thus limited to those crib bedding collections and accessories that the store owner decided had a good chance of selling well. Mom is required to travel from store to store in an effort to see what is truly available. It is difficult for Mom to even remember how that crib set from three stores ago compares to the one she is looking at now.

Internet retailers should be the solution to this problem. Unfortunately, most of them are not up to the task. While they generally provide a much more extensive selection than any store can, they are often of little help to Mom as she tries to find the one that is right for her. Having hundreds of collections to choose from becomes a liability, not an asset, if the appropriate tools are not available to efficiently evaluate all of the choices. And few of these internet retailers are willing to take the risk of investing in inventory of these products to assure Mom fast delivery.

At Baby Supermall, we have devoted ourselves to learning how moms search for and evaluate their crib bedding choices. We have discovered a number of interesting things, some surprising and some not so surprising:

Given a choice of sifting through crib bedding by brand, price, theme, and color, shoppers overwhelmingly prefer to search by theme.

Brand is the least important of these factor to shoppers.

Shoppers desire the ability to obtain fabric samples for any bedding they are considering.

You cannot possibly provide Mom with too many images of the crib bedding.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of internat retailers only allow Mom to shop based on brand, do not have fabric samples, and provide only the minimum necessary in terms of images. In fact, many internet retailers never even see the product, preferring to have it drop shipped directly to customers from the manufacturers.

Fortunately, some internet retailers are waking up to the needs of today’s busy moms-to-be. With just a little effort and patience, she can find an internet retailer that provides all the assistance she needs.

Robert Meier is president of Baby Supermall, an internet retailer of crib bedding, nursery décor, and other baby products. Baby Supermall has developed the unique Crib Bedding Finder, that enables shoppers to sift through its hundreds of baby bedding collections by a variety of characteristics, including unique baby nursery themes.

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Free Pass Drug Test Information
Friday May 22nd 2009, 9:48 am
Filed under: End Users, Lifestyle Infos, University of Health

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Getting a Debt Consolidation Loan
Thursday May 21st 2009, 1:40 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

Should you find yourself getting in over your head with debt, you might be a prime candidate for a debt consolidation loan. These loans are designed for those with a heavy burden of debt, and are used to consolidate a large number of debts into a single manageable payment. The debt consolidation loan is used to pay off the other debts, leaving only the loan itself in need of repayment.

How much should I borrow?

Considering that a debt consolidation loan is designed to replace other debts, the amount that you borrow should be as much as you need to pay off the total sum of your outstanding debt. If you’re unable to get the total amount that you need to pay off all of your debts, then you should at least borrow enough with your debt consolidation loan so that you can pay off your largest debts (and hopefully make headway toward the others.)

How much debt do I need to have before consolidation?

There isn’t a set amount of debt that you must have before considering a debt consolidation loan; the loan is simply a way of handling debt that is reasonably beyond your ability to pay it back. Many debt consolidation loan companies offer loans of £50,000 or more, though a growing trend is to offer loans starting at £5,000 as well so as to take care of outstanding debts before they climb as high as the larger loans. Lesser loans can also be used as a debt consolidation loan, though they occasionally have other criteria that must be met (especially in much smaller loans.)

What collateral do I need?

As the bank or finance company will obviously be aware of your debt problem when you apply for a debt consolidation loan, you’ll need to be able to supply collateral for the loan (meaning that you’ll have to be able to guarantee the loan with some property that the lender could sell should you not repay.) The collateral can vary depending upon the amount of the loan as well as the lender, with the most common forms of collateral being automobile titles and real estate property deeds. As these are usually higher-priced items, using them as collateral allows for a larger debt consolidation loan… not to mention giving a greater incentive for repayment.

A debt consolidation loan can give you a new start if you can’t handle all of the various payments you’re expected to make that you can’t afford. It’s also a great way to pay off old debts that may have been turned over to collection agencies, and should be looked at as a viable option before considering more serious actions such as bankruptcy.

You may freely reprint this article provided the following author’s biography (including the live URL link) remains intact:

About The Author

John Mussi is the founder of Direct Online Loans who help homeowners find the best available loans via the http://www.directonlineloans.co.uk website.

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God is Not Some Mere Fancy of Imagination or Self-imposed Hallucination!
Thursday May 21st 2009, 6:12 am
Filed under: House Of Religion

Is God a figment of our imaginations? Who created who; did God create man or did man create god to help him feel safe and content? Yet in such an argument you will find all sorts of rational as to why God does or doesn’t exist. Recently in a think tank a member was discussing technology, life extension, robotic prosthetics and computer chips in the brains of every human to extend memory and help in cognition and was confronted by a well-intentioned man of faith who said; “God is not some mere fancy of imagination or self-imposed hallucination!”

After stating this fact an atheist and technology guru or self-proclaimed wizard of technology of the future stated:

“I totally agree God is not a self-imposed hallucination, fore the folklore is rather a social engineering and learned trait. It is not self-imposed it is socially imposed and for those who need the assistance of the group they find it easier to go along with it rather to do the old Thomas Paine thing. Of course one cannot condemn a schizophrenic, after all 1 in 100 people have this condition. Indeed, we cannot condemn either the believer of an invisible friend, fore we would condemn over 35% of the children under age 6. Additionally we cannot condemn a child under the age of five who still believes in Santa Clause. And in history we need not condemn those who could not read “The Book Who No One Read” fore it was banned and we all know the Earth use to be flat right? Great for playing “Risk” with all kings horses and all the Kings Men but today we exist in a more knowledgeable world, which includes a far more 4D Net Centric Battlespace.”

It is interesting indeed that two think tankers could have such different belief systems and use their belief systems to guide them in completely different directions with regards to the adoption of technology. What are your thoughts on this matter? It would be interesting to hear from you. Think on this in 2006.

Lance Winslow - EzineArticles Expert Author

“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

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New Manifesto from IOSH Sets Tasks for Government
Tuesday May 19th 2009, 3:13 am
Filed under: Law, Your Business

The new manifesto launched by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), named as ‘Creating a healthier UK plc’, has been launched at the House of Lords. The manifesto contains a series of challenges for the Government and other bodies in order to improve the health and safety of employees at workplaces across the UK.

IOSH has identified four big tasks, which have been highlighted in the manifesto. These are providing better working conditions for better health; creating a society that is aware of various risks; providing help to firms in managing risks; and providing better advice to the people on health and safety aspects.

After the release, the IOSH Chief Executive, Rob Strange OBE, commented that the manifesto is a clear statement of intent and calls for immediate action. It shows what is needed to be done to make UK’s workplaces healthier and safer for workers.

Last year’s statistics for the UK show about 229 workers being killed at workplaces, almost 300,000 being injured and close to two million developing illness due to poor workplace conditions. It is time to reduce these numbers and the manifesto has laid down the initiatives, which the Government and others are expected to meet, Strange stressed.

Strange also said that involving young people and providing safety advice to the firms can speed up the achievement of health and safety targets in the UK. Further, the inclusion of safety training as a part of curriculum by schools and colleges will also help achieve this objective.

All staff and management must be fully aware of and comply with health and safety regulations as laid down by law. Find out about the accredited iosh course available from the experts at Workplace Law Training.

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Essential Hints on Getting a Reputable Bank that Can Meet the Business Banking Requirements of Your Business Venture
Saturday May 16th 2009, 6:52 pm
Filed under: Your Finance Resources

Getting a bank that can supply good business banking is essential for the success of any business organisation whether large or small. Why? Because smart business banking allows the pounds within a company to flow, and will definetly save time and money. Any small business owner who is doubtful about where to begin with business banking, should read the following suggestions to get an insight into what is required.

The first step to take before you can start open a business account is to find the right bank for your needs. Unless they have the soundest deal, it is usually inadvisable to use your existing bank for your business needs. This is because it is a good idea to keep your business and personal affairs entirely separate, and means that a single bank is not in control of all your cash. There is also the fact that new banking clients often get better deals because of the banks being so keen to attract new business. Competition is intensive and this can work in your favour. Whatever bank you choose to use, it pays to shop around to get the best products for your banking needs.



Having selected a bank you should contact them to open an account for your business. This is in all likelihood the most important step, and there are a number of things you must do before you can open an account. For example, prepare a business plan to email to the bank to give them the backgound on your business and what tou hope to achieve. Additionally, if you are a new company then you will in all probability need to get proof of your initial financial backing. It is usual for your personal credit history and the history of any business partners to be investigated. Once these conditions have been concluded then you will be able to open an bank account.

The sort of deal you get and the services proposed will partially depend on the size of your business organisation, as well as the results of your credit checks and the evaluation of your business plan. Starting with a simple account is quite possibly the prudent option, where you can take out money and pay in earnings. Once your business increases then you can add other features or apply for a business loan as and when you want them

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