From: Timothy RueDate: Mon, 9 Jun 97 08:34:00 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises * It is now Sunday the 8th of June, in my efforts to write all of this *** This is only the third part. Take Heart not to make any judgements but put Heart into any actions you may take based on this first part. For those who have the ability to translate this into other languages, please do so, for this IS for everyone. © Copyright 1997 - Timothy Rue -------------- Back to Comdex -------------- As I did in the beginning of part two, I'd like to reflect back on part two and part one before continuing with part three. Overall, in our efforts to move forward in our evolution such facets can come into existance and at a point in time, cause something to happen that seems so remarkable that many of us fall into a state of illusion and get lost. On the other side of this coin there are principles and concepts we can apply which results in remarkable things happening. Either way something remarkable happens but it is in how we deal with it that effect what all evolves from it. We can ignore it or act on it and if we act on it we have the choice to be productive or destructive. But the most important thing is that we do have a choice. Things happen for a reason, it's simple physics. The better we understand this the more we can productively do without getting caught by backward destructive illusions. It's one thing to create and apply concepts and another to experience the resulting effects. The better each of us understands these things the more energy we create. But overall there is the sum total of our choice (productive minus destructive.) If we are applying destructive or faulty concepts we will experience of course the negitive effects, perhaps without realizing it because we may never have experienced otherwise, to know better. Many of us believe in the cycle of positive and negitive. It is a concept of physics and there is much in life that helps us to believe it. But what happens if we step outside of this sphere? No longer are we affected by it but we can see it and make productive use of it. As a matter of logic, the idea of being affected by the cycle concept from outside of this sphere converts to an illusion. An illusion that can only affect you by believing in its power to affect you. Before you go off thinking I've lost it, where in fact I have it very much in sight, consider this: I'm an end user who has put alot of honest integrated effort into my communications. I've certainly suffered the nightmare of the past few years regarding the Amiga, as many of us have. But what I recognized out of all of this is that I could step outside of the positive negitive cycle and inject into it the honesty of wide-scope accountability. And I've watched as the negitive vanishes into the nothingness it is. Stepping back to see the next sphere and doing the same thing. I've talked about removing world child hunger, a goal nobody can say they don't support, without exposing their errors. By exposing and vanishing the negitive, what happens to the cycle? It gets exposed for the illusion it is! With this in mind lets get on with this third part. During our talk, Petro had asked me about the US economy. I responded that things where the best they have been in a long time. Petro told me about the economy in Germany and commented the government was making things difficult. I responded that the computer industry could force the government to change. At the airport while waiting for Petro to arrive, Skal told me how the RAM industry had fallen through the floor and there was something of a panic happening with the manufactures and their employees. Petro had also told me how he was having and helping to evolve increased Amiga sales in a country not having a history of good enconmy (I'm not sure if I remember which but do recall a brief flash of the kids I've sponsored for many years, India.) At dinner someone ask about NewStar the company some of us heard about, regarding the Amiga in China. Petro said they are producing game machines. I think this is good because kids do play and learn in the process. Keep this in mind along with the fact I have been working in the trade show industry here in Altanta for many years, as you read on. The first thing I set out to do was size up the show. I went through the exhibit areas and observed overall make-up of exhibitors and product types. Lamar had told me Motorola wasn't there, but they where, just not in they way you'd expect from past shows. He also told me Apple wasn't there and this was correct. It was about noon when I sat down to think about all I had seen. The number of shows had increased to four from less than this years ago, but the amount of floor space used had also shrunk. I also noticed how alot less money was spent in the way of booths. Something I'd noticed because of working in the trade show industry. All of the sudden this show shrunk, not just once but as I thought about it, it became quite small. But it wasn't until Wednesday while watching the loop video, waiting to pick the keynote audio tape up, that the reason for the reduced size really crystalized. No wonder RAM prices have fallen thru the floor, this also explained why computer prices had been falling quicker and quicker over the last few years. I can imagine how some of the exhibitors must have felt, had they realized what was going on and I suppose many of them did and why the energy level was so low. Let me put it to you this way. There are those kids in this playground we call the computer industry, who have decided to take the toys we have now, away from us. It's called NC or Network Computing but not the kind of interoffice or shop network such as Novell (notice how certification in Novell has become easier and easier to learn and use?). The running joke was that NC stood for Not Compatible. We're talking internet here, the moving of our toys to large network servers, like the system handeling billions of banking transactions. Don't get me wrong, this does have some worthwhile advantages but there are also some major flaws these kids clearly don't recognize. On the up side it can help reduce the cost of accessing powerful computer technology for many that haven't yet been introduced to it. On the down side, what is this push doing to the economy of so many in the industry and those affected by the economy of this industry? Now in this time and age many of us have learned that you don't go to work at a company and stay until you retire. So many of us are learning to accept this and properly deal with other retirement options, therefore this is not the problem. What the problem is, is what these kids are replacing the jobs lost with. People need to be doing something to earn an income, and perhaps invest or save for retirement. So exactly what are these lost jobs being replaced by? Somehow I don't think this is supposed to be a problem, we've gone thru this sort of thing in our evolution before and enough times that these kids surely must have considered this. Besides there is another side of this coin to look at. Oops! let's get outside of this cycle and see the whole coin. We are moving into a new mode of computing and there is no stopping it. So let's see it for what it really is, without illusions. This new technology is just that, new. It means human error can take place and as it evolves human error can still take place. It means that many facets can come together and at a point in time, BOOM! But this time, for those reading this set of postings, we can prepare for it so that any damage is minimal. Bill Gates is falling, there is no stopping it because the rules are changing but the question is what are the new rules and who is making them? An even better question is, is it going to put us back on the course we left 22 years ago? There is only one rule, connection. It doesn't really matter who is making the rules but then again you might like to know Motorola is a large part of it. A satellite went up. World-wide connection, no matter where you are in the world and where you may go, you can connect to any other device in the world. Wireless! Iridium, the first. Back on course? Only so long as you know there is only one rule, Connection! There will be all types of information/data and processing based services evolving on the internet. LET'S NOT GET TRAPPED INTO HAVING THEM FORCED ON US ALONG WITH ANY FAULTY ILLUSIONAL CONSTRAINT ATTACHED, as Microsoft did to many. OPEN SYSTEMS! Recognize that Standards are important for proper communication but being able to handle the Exception is VERY IMPORTANT. A LIFE AND DEATH MATTER! And this brings us right back to the problem created 22 years ago. The fracturing and fragmentation of a beautiful spectrum. A spectrum that MUST BE PUT BACK INTO PLACE. While we're at it let's take the understanding we gain in doing this, to put back on track other spectrums that have been fractured and fragmented. Spectrums identifiable by the existing element of conflict within them. And where there is conflict there is sure to be non-productive expence to leverage against. Trillions! Or is it more? This part three, of this posting set, has been very difficult to write. If there is anything to say about Comdex, it's that it shrunk so much that the boys with control over most the toys got nervous and added a few more shows to the event. They showed their nervousness in other ways as well. And they have a real reason to be nervous. Security issues on this new technology direction were not a minor topic. And they know how this direction is affecting the economy of many individuals. One plus one equal...... For the Amiga this is good news. Think about it! As the general computing needs move to the internet, accessable by smaller, less creatively versatile (or more constraining depending on how you look at it) devices, along with a time of concern for security.... Where might hardware and software developers go? So long as the Amiga evolves in stability and versatility, and it will, it will expand it's market share. Add to this the ability to handle exceptions while allowing freedom in creativity..... In all of this it is important to consider how not only software took a wrong turn 22 years ago, but how this has affected the direction of hardware development as well. Really think about this people. Computer technology is such a technology that is limited only by the mind. Kids put things together in new and interesting ways. Let's not allow the industry to cause limitations on the creative development of kids. They may be the ones needing to deal with the exception. The next level of computer evolution is that of the end user being able to define the objective and allowing the computer to provide a solution or solution possibilities. A level of individual creative directed automation far beyond the current systems of today. As well as being beyond the general constraints of what is slowly (in comparision to what we can do) evolving thru the internet. And it is this coming level of evolution that the Amiga has an established edge, but only so long as it is recognized and developed. Connection is the only rule! Send data. Receive Data. But it's what you can do with the data on your end. Not so much with the evolving general internet capabilities with inherent built in constraints but with the personalize and professional exception handeling capabilities of the system you have. Consider the evolution of magazines, it started with the general and became more and more specific over time. And the same thing is going to happen on the internet. Many would say its already happened, but slow down and think about it. Accessing information is not the only thing you can do with computers. This lady called the Amiga, well she's pregnant. And we all know she has been in the wilderness, came out for a short time, went back into the wilderness and now she's about to give birth. And this birth is not something you rush but take care of heart in delivering. And this baby is going to like having alot of toys to play with. Virtual Interaction. A geniune gift of good will. Playing together is WHERE IT's ALL AT. Let's look back to a time just before the Gates explosion: A BIT OF HISTORY Software Piracy, what's it's origin? A look back to a time when PC's didn't exist nor did the idea of software piracy, will reveal: The Hacker Ethic: ------------------- Access to computers - and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works - should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative. All information should be free. Mistrust Authority - Promote Decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria, such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better. ------------------- Before going off with a possible wrong perspective of the above, one needs to take a look at the original hackers. The list is very impressive and can be found in the book "HACKERS" by Steven Levy. Sub-titled "Heros of the computer revolution." YES! there was a time when the word "Hacker" had a very good, positive and highly productive conotation applied to it! How is it that "Hacker" now has a negitive conotation applied? Well it's really quite a simple and well praticed technique in dishonesty. Reversal! A well praticed technique often used in politics. I once told a joke to someone very much into Rush L.... I said this is the left wing, as I moved my left arm up and down several times. I then said this is the right wing, as I moved my right arm up and down. Then I asked him if he'd ever seen an eagle fly like this, as I moved my arms up and down opposite each other. Time to get out of this cycle to see the whole sphere. The meaning behind words used, can change thru the intentional acts of dishonesty. Today there is a great deal of free information available via computer connection, much to learn from in how the world works. To understand the only rule is connection is to assist decentralization. Of course the big boys want to centralize much for their feedback, control and profit. Consider the customizable news service of CNN and Oracle and the feedback this will proviude them with, perhaps there is another hidden meaning behind the name oracle. One that says we see what the people are interested in and with this information we can convince them that we can tell the future. But this doesn't suppoert the Kids who can put things together in new and interesting ways to create art and beauty and change all our lives for the better. To close out this part, as well as lead into the next part of this posting set: *********** IN MEMORIAM John George Kemeny 1926-1992 John G. Kemeny, co-inventor of BASIC and co-founder of True BASIC, Inc., died very unexpectedly on December 26, 1992, at the age of 66. Born in Hungary in 1926, John Kemeny emigrated to the United States in 1940, on, as he put it, "the last boat to get out." He graduated at the top of his class at George Washington High School in Brooklyn in just three years. He then entered Princeton University. While there he was drafted and assigned to the Manhattan Project, where he worked on numerical calculations using nothing more than the punched card equipment available at the that time. After the war, while finishing his PhD, he served as Albert Einstein's Assistant for one year. He came to Dartmouth in 1953, and served as chairman of the Mathematics Department from 1955 to 1968. I first met him when he hired me in 1956. Immediately we began to work on joint projects to make computing easier to learn and use. After many attempts, we finally settled on the concept of time-sharing as a way of distributing computing power to the greatest number of people. To make this a pratical venture we also devised a new language that was easier to learn and use: BASIC. It first saw the light of day on May 1, 1964, and has grown to be the most widely used programming language in the world. John Kemeny then went on to serve as the Dartmouth's thirteenth President from 1970 to 1981. He led Dartmouth, one of the last all-male colleges, into coeducation, and chaired President Carter's Three-Mile-Island Commission. After that illustrious career, he took on one more challenge in 1983: to do something about the poor quality of educational software and BASIC compliers on personal computers. Nineteen years after he helped invent BASIC, he helped establish True BASIC. His friendship and leadership will be greatly missed, but his work goes on. - Thomas E. Kurtz ***************** AGAIN, this is not the end of my postings. There is more coming! * It is about 8:30 the 9th of June, at this point in writing. This third part may be revised as I integrate more. This work is copyrighted 1997 by myself - Timothy Rue. But only so that no alteration be done. 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