Friday, September 24, 2004
Background discussions on a proposed
Anticipatory Technology Challenge Problem
White Paper on Incident Information Orb Architecture (IIOA) à
The founders of the BCNGroup are attempting to bring what we think are well principled themes from the scholarly literature to bear on the problem of the capture of information flow. We ask for small donation support if you are able
Orb and anticipatory technologies are indicating a technical capability to understand, to a certain point, all social discourse in each language and in each location around the world. Please see:
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/kmbook/Chapter12.htm
The technical capability is not an artificial intelligence, but is a computer based data-mining program that aids in human-centric production of information about complex systems such as the system of language expressions.
What we see in the Developed World, and what is seen easily, is a capture of most information technology by the massive structures related to marketing and control over markets.
Markets are good. But free access to capital for quality innovations needed by society is NOT what we have been dealing with for perhaps two decades. Stock capitalization of an intrinsically valuable company has not be possible when MBAs and lawyers create a predatory control structure.
We use Microsoft, Oracle and the tens of thousands of IT firms that depend on poor quality operating systems and designed incremental marketing of software changes for the sake of IT profits. We have less truthful information than what we might otherwise have. We move forward easy access to immoral and sensational strata of the Internet and television, and towards a fee base for looking at scholarly articles. These are the same articles that were freely available only a short period ago.
Many areas of scholarship are becoming so costly as to damage the scholarship and the process of training future generations of scholars.
Richard (Ballard), I know this it is a point of possible discussion. I would prefer to pay a little for access to good scholarship. But the information that is needed to understand truth about the social and natural worlds should be available when asked for.
This includes a more realistic technology for complex social polling of information. This means also a deep renewal of college level freshman mathematics and computer science curriculums.
My understanding of your (Ballard’s) theory of information is that the theory implies there is a truth that is external to human social manipulation and specifically external of natural language. A "cloak" exists between "language as used" and the realities that cause not only language but is in fact the physical realities. (Tom (Adi), this is an important point in our discussion .. [65]).
I agree. Knowledge of this truth by the most people possible is essential to the foundational principles of the democracy. You agree, I know.
The Mark 3 knowledge base needs economic support to build it, as does perhaps the Readware substructural ontology. But the value of such things to our culture are far greater that any amount of money. These things need to be available in something like the concept, discussed in the bead games, of the Safe Net.
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/beadsAsOfMay3_2004.htm
What remains for the founding group, is to understand how to free the capitalization process so that companies like MITi Inc, Knowledge Foundations Inc, Ontologystream Inc and others can bring a stock to market without becoming controlled by MBAs. Then our products can be used freely and side benefits, like tasks requiring our unique skills, accrue to us personally. The new information science gains a means to capitalize companies without lawyers and MBAs taken undue control over the entire processes. Innovators need capital, not lawyers and MBAs.
We need to free computer science from IT, and we need to bring a simplification of computer science forward so that one can see that complex system behavior - such as terrorism can be actually seen and so controlled. We need to open access to natural science and mathematics.
We need to get on with being in the American dream.
Tom Adi’s work has created a specific set of structure to function information, and he encoding this information into a computer system that produces better results than what is commonly used. (For discussion see the bead thread around [65]).
Look at figure 6 in Chapter 3
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/kmbook/Chapter3.htm
We see a general theory for producing NOT ONLY the periodic tables but the event chemistry specifying the actual observable information connecting structure and function, this general theory was worked on in the Soviet Union at least since early 1970s (Pospelov - personally communication).
Adi’s recent notational note [65] allows us to point to Readware as one of several demonstrations of the new simplicity that comes from an understanding of the foundations of computer science.
The Orb encoded Voting Procedure algorithm is developing at:
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/graphs/64.htm
As we more forward we are committed to developing a set of notational conventions that allow our community to emerge. We claim objective scientific standards.