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How the Information Society is progressing

23 June 2008

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The first era, including the past ten thousand years of written history, has been characterized by tribal politics and the acquisition and maintaining of wealth by force – essentially a system of gang-warfare. It is a physical and psychological fact that using our brains is the most energy consuming activity we undertake. To avoid thinking we cleave to ‘isms – the lazy person’s what-to-think-guide. Nevertheless, over thousands of years, in rebellion against prescribed and proscribed thought, enough people have used their brains innovatively for developed nations to now be able to claim that “We have worked hard to abolish work – and have succeeded.”

In industrialised nations, due to generations of hard work, valour and sacrifice and, recently, the Electronic Revolution - the Knowledge Economy - there is overproduction of most consumer goods and services. Real wealth and the products of the Real Economy are flooding developed countries. The world has never before produced so much real wealth. But the traditional, tribal, Money Economy mechanisms, used to count, account and to share wealth fairly, are inadequate. The Real Economy, over millennia, has been and is maintained by the efforts of the majority of the population while the Money Economy, the legal paper which represents real wealth, is 75% owned by just 4% - some of whom have contributed little to the commonwealth. Despite sweeping, historic, social revolutions to diminish the plagues and powers of aristocrats, aristocracy has resurfaced with a vengeance, this time rooted in America, under the guise of capitalism and free-market forces for the good of all the people. As global society deposes the last of these dynastic dinosaurs, they will lash their powerful tails with potent and destructive rage.

The 3 economies, Real, Monetary and Knowledge are badly out of alignment, out of sync and disjointed. The Electronic Revolution will bring a new, fairer, more open reality.

Though we would all rather drown in Global Warming floods than cooperate with each other - humankind is on the threshold of the era of intelligent-cooperation. This second phase, era or epoch is characterised by the Electronic Revolution, automated production, free-information, constant, instant global communications and, most revolutionary of all, by individuals thinking for themselves. It is bringing global social responsibility and radical changes; for example, it is probable that voting for and empowering charismatic individuals – gang leaders in politics and business - to decide our futures, will soon be replaced by voting on issues – democratically, well informed, electronic-voting on everything from household waste, to health care, to car production, to travel systems, to global warming, to taxation, to wealth distribution, to whether we should replicate the deadly 1918 “Spanish” flu virus, or go to war, or help the sick and the poor.

NEW EPOCH NEWS notes the key steps of progress and the resistances to entering the second phase. We live in interesting times.

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7 April 08 – Famous Journalist liquidated?. 5

12 March 08 – Point and Counterpoint – Worried about the “Credit Collapse” ?. 7

19 February 08 – Capital repatriation flood begins with a trickle. 11

11 February 08 – Offshore Exiles – Repatriate, Repatriate, Repatriate. 12

11 February 08 – Kids on-line. 12

17 January 08 – Greenfield and Darwin. 13

11 October 07 – Breathless Big Brother/ Sister. 13

3 October 07 – Oxford Brooks & Big Bucks for Bus Owners. 13

25 September 07 - Teleworkers – one-third of UK workforce. 14

25 September 07 – The MIT $100 laptop gets to market. 14

17 September 07 – “IF WE DON’T PAY WORLD-CLASS SALARIES, THEY WILL TAKE THEIR SKILLS ABROAD!” SHOCK – HORROR! 15

19 AUG 07 – GLOBAL FINANCE – OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! 18

18 AUG 07 – PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF THE GLOBAL BANKS?. 19

18 AUG 07 – LEARN TO COUNT. 19

13 AUG 07 – FUNDAMENTAL REDSIGN OF TRANSPORT AND CARS. 20

2 JUL 07 – TAX FORCE & POVERTY. 21

13 FEB 07 – E-DEMOCRACY WILL BE TONY BLAIR’S LEGACY. 21

29 NOV 06 – THE SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, OXFORD. 23

2 NOV 06 – THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY HAS ARRIVED IN THE UK - OFFICIAL. 25

2 OCT 06 – MICROSOFT CHALLENGED. 26

2 OCT 06 – "LET THEM EAT CAKE". & HEARD THIS WEEK AT A DINNER-PARTY …"IT IS THE NATURAL ORDER THAT 5% WILL ALWAYS OWN 90% OF THE WORLD" 26

11 AUG 06 – WIRED DEMOCRACY – AN HISTORIC PRECEDENT. 27

12 Jun 06 - British Sex on the Net – Time Magazine. 27

9 MAR 06 – PESKY PIRATES THREATEN BLUE MOVIES. 28

24 FEB 06 – $80M CASH STOLEN FROM THE BANK OF ENGLAND. 29

24 FEB 06 – SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL – PORNOGRAPHY FOR THE NANO-TECH GENERATION. 29

18 JAN 06 – BIG BROTHER SUED. 29

3 JAN 06 – US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES INTRUSIONS CRITICISED. 30

3 JAN 06 – SPAMMERS CURBED?. 30

3 JAN 06 – MIT DEVELOP STACKABLE CARS. 31

3 JAN 06 – ENRON CASE THREATENS DIRECTORS WITH 25 YEARS. 31

7 DEC 05 – A diversion into Intelligent Design. 31

4 NOV 05 – BIG BROTHER in the workplace – A backward step. 32

4 NOV 05 – Microsoft invest in VOIP & “Live Office” 32

4 NOV 05 – Alt. Energy .com.. 33

24 OCT 05 – Time is running out, maybe – The oil fuel crisis. 33