Monday, October 25, 2004
Background discussions on a proposed
Anticipatory Technology Challenge Problem
White Paper on Incident Information Orb
Architecture (IIOA) à
Adi Structural Ontology Part I à
I am up at 6 AM because of my thoughts about where we as the core team are in
1) finding a sponsor to protect and legitimize our important work
2) finding a means to repair the economic losses we have experienced over the past three years (2001 – 2004)
I miss my house and garden deeply.
But beyond this very real sorrow, there is a profound happiness with the work the Tom Adi and I have been privileged to share over the past month.
This work is developing a truly remarkable exposition of the structured ontology that Adi discovered and then encoded into the Readware software: Part I Part II
This happiness has a similarity with many others that have been successful experiences in understanding deeply perhaps as many as a dozen true innovations, and perhaps a dozen more extended conversations with a scholar's mind.
These experiences "should" have been rewarded economically, but have not been. It is not a situation that has to do with me but rather a more general situation that has arisen in the interplay between our wonderful American society and some specific effects from human self-centeredness. The separation of authority from responsibility is the key negative consequence of self-centeredness as practiced in our society.
Self-center ness is, or course, necessary. The problems stemming from the separation of authority from responsibility is bigger than the nature of today's business practices, though these certainly contribute. As Mary Ann and I discussed, the internal agencies of our government does not know how to collaborate, and because of this acquired property the Nation has been put at risk in many ways. The systemic failures and the dysfunction of the Intelligence Community are but one manifestation.
The waste in the procurement of IT by government is perhaps the most profound historical phenomenon that has not as yet seen the light of day. To ignore the consequences of the paralysis of government procurement processes is to not understand the controlling influence that separation of authority from responsibility has on our society.
The innovations that I know, and the people whom I have learned from, have allowed me to understand what will be in the future an essentially free from of computer technology based on open source, non-proprietary code and a curriculum that allows any individual to convert part or all of their computer into knowledge processing system.
One may even be able to take control of one's phone. (smile)
This system will not be alive and will not be intelligent. It will not be marketed and it will not have things about it that are there to take money from us.
In the near future, personal knowledge processor will have a deep and ubiquitous foot print within the government-to-government communications, and citizen-to-citizen commutations. Peter Stephenson and I have defined one path that may begin to take us to this near future starting in Jan 2005.
White Paper for Department of
Homeland Security
Meanwhile, the core team; Nathan, Tom, Ken, Pat, Peter and I continue to work as a labor of devotion to a set of ideals.