When we train our artificially intelligent robotic assistants in the near future to work alongside of us humans in every endeavor we must also consider cultural roles in national identity. That is to say if we’re building artificially intelligent American robots to work alongside robots, then we must provide the social norms to go along with our culture into training. Nationality in the far off future may be a thing of the past in that each decade the world becomes closer together.

An artificially intelligent robotic assistant which was built in Japan, would most likely be built with cultural norms consider its programming. This of course could be problematic when the designing an artificially intelligent system that would work alongside an American at let’s say a factory, which puts the final touches on a Boeing airliner. It might be quite silly to have a robot slightly bow to the aerospace engineer mechanic on top of the scaffolding; do you see the problem here?

Of course, when working at let’s say the international space station a robotic assistant would either have two choices for programming. One, it could include parts of all cultures of the world or two, it could have one dominant nationality in culture and even an accent to go along with its speech. We should consider that in the future there maybe an android with artificial intelligence or robotic assistant in every single home in America. Whichever country builds the most robots their programming of culture could in fact slightly alter the American way in culture. Thus one could say that in this case the robots are training us, as we are not training the robots. Consider this in 2006.

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This new type of service allows you a greater luxury to have fun playing your favored choices avoiding any and all these restrictions and inconveniences. So to get the best of that subscription, find following a selection of helpful hints and tips Once you start to hire computer games online, you’ll be asked to determine the form of subscription you’ll need. You don’t want to select too small an option and have no more gaming time prior to the end of your rental period; though you shouldn’t spend more than you need to, either. First, decide on the amount of games and the volume of usage you’ll actually want each week.

Then, opt for the extra functions of each bundle. In many instances you can acquire an unrestricted deal or opt for the choice that lets you hold on to the titles for as long as possible. This is going to make the increased expenditure on a monthly subscription well worth your while.

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Whether dealing with organic brains in humans and animals or dealing with artificial intelligent systems, we must consider cognitive strategies to delete or subdue certain memories, observations or experiences to insure optimal function and completion of assigned task. For instance if a soldier comes back from the war and he has shell shock syndrome we need to be careful that it does not rear its ugly head in the middle of a restaurant with his family.

If an artificial intelligent robot has been assigned to tasks by an unethical human due to a character flaw in the human’s level of integrity; once this is found out, the robot must be abated of those instructions or commands.

Erasing memory is not so pleasant to discuss but often people with deep emotional scares do not want to talk about those memories and they turn out to be a hindrance in this lives in the future. Likewise a artificial intelligent robot which is miss programmed, or has learned something wrong or even has been jeopardized by a malicious software virus will need a strategy to fix and repair it’s problem other wise the unit will not be usable.

In the case of an emotionally scared human, often their behavior due to such makes them unworkable in many social situations and they would rather change. We need to look at both the organic brain and artificial intelligence and see if we can learn anything as we seek to fix both issues. Consider this in 2006.

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Only a few years back, when you desired to hire computer games, you had to go out to the shop, dig through aisle after aisle of titles until you found the game you were looking for, and then have to race to the shop the day after to avoid paying overdue charges. With the new availability of net video game leasing, this is thankfully relegated to the past. This innovative variety of service grants you a greater luxury to relish playing your favorites choices avoiding just about all such limitations and annoyances. To maximize the full scope of your subscription, here’s a selection of useful suggestions for you. Once you start to rent computer games via the net, you’ll need to settle on how inclusive a subscription to get. You don’t want to choose too small an option and run out of gaming time before the close of the month, even so you should stay away from expending more than your wallet allows, too. Initially you should determine the number of titles and the precise amount of playing time wanted each week.

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When subscribing for computer games on the net, the rental deal melds in with you and your life rather than forcing you to conform to the supplier’s schedule. It is very straightforward and affordable to use, and making use of these simple suggestions you’ll be able to receive the best use out of your net computer game rental service.

If your enemy knows you are using stealth and their radars will not work on that. They may choose other options such as cell tower frequency circle disruptions or other such techniques. They may also choose to use some sort of heat signature device. But there might be a way to fool such a system and get your enemy to launch on a phantom decoy heat signature using two lasers from two different points.

Consider Chemical Lasers that are airborne and very high-energy. Well if you take an Argon laser and a CO2 Laser and you point them at each others path they will combine and the collision of all those molecules will cause a secondary reaction and if the heat is ramped up sufficiently it will cause an anomaly in your enemies defense sensor system.

Once the enemy launches surface-to-air-missiles at the anomaly, we simply pin-point location, in a split second and redirect the lasers using a BLOS reflector staged on a stealth blimp and take out that new target. If we do this is quick succession, then the enemies aerial defense strategy and all their hard ware is toast before the real war even begins.

Is this technology even available yet? Indeed it is and the United States of America has it and it is ready to rip. Not only could this strategy work, but just having it makes the enemy hesitate because they have no idea if the signature on the radar is mass deception, fast moving incoming missile or stealth to deliver ordinance or merely a mirage decoy in the sky? Either way, all they can do is worry, wait or kiss their asses goodbye. See Ya! Game over insert more quarters; Consider all this in 2006.

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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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*** If Life Were This Easy: Use this intervention with
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The next time you are having students signing forms,
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This rather wordy document essentially says: “I
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Life on Earth is very symmetrical in nature and it is indeed rather obvious if you look around. Is this fact constant for life off of Planet Earth? And is this a constant in the universe as well? Is life symmetrical by nature everywhere? Interesting comment indeed and this subject had recently come up in an online think tank when one guest member stated;

“It does seem that as far as their appearance, symmetry is almost a given in terms of external appearance and apparatus - limbs, etc. - however the distribution is basically up for grabs.”

It makes sense then that if we are looking for life on other worlds we need to look for symmetry of sorts, organization and familiarity to patterns. If this is so, then perhaps Stephen Wolfram famous author of; “The New Type of Science” might have something to say on this subject as well and even some mathematical proof as to why and how this would be the case might be worthy of note?

It seems as if life would be symmetrical in nature everywhere as it is on Earth and perhaps there is a reason for this? It could be that light and frequency resonance of planets, moons or even matter itself causes life to be this way. Whatever the case it is a rather interesting and unexplained topic of interest and definitely worthy of intellectual and philosophical pursuit, as some day we may very well discover the answer? Consider all this in 2006.

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