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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 persons 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
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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23 June 08 Will
the worlds thick-headed transport and energy planners ever get it?
7 April 08 Famous Journalist liquidated?
12 March 08 Point and Counterpoint Worried about the Credit Collapse
?
19 February 08 Capital repatriation flood begins with a trickle.
11 February 08 Offshore Exiles Repatriate, Repatriate, Repatriate.
11 February 08 Kids on-line.
17 January 08 Greenfield and Darwin.
11 October 07 Breathless Big Brother/ Sister.
3 October 07 Oxford Brooks & Big Bucks for Bus Owners.
25 September 07 - Teleworkers one-third of UK workforce.
25 September 07 The MIT $100 laptop gets to market.
19 AUG 07 GLOBAL FINANCE OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
18 AUG 07 PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF THE GLOBAL BANKS?
13 AUG 07 FUNDAMENTAL REDSIGN OF TRANSPORT AND CARS
2 JUL 07 TAX FORCE & POVERTY.
13 FEB 07 E-DEMOCRACY WILL BE TONY BLAIRS LEGACY
29 NOV 06 THE SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, OXFORD.
2 NOV 06 THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY HAS ARRIVED IN THE UK - OFFICIAL.
2 OCT 06 MICROSOFT CHALLENGED.
11 AUG 06 WIRED DEMOCRACY AN HISTORIC PRECEDENT.
12 Jun 06 - British Sex on the Net Time Magazine
9 MAR 06 PESKY PIRATES THREATEN BLUE MOVIES.
24 FEB 06 $80M CASH STOLEN FROM THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
24 FEB 06 SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL PORNOGRAPHY FOR THE NANO-TECH
GENERATION.
3 JAN 06 US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES INTRUSIONS CRITICISED
3 JAN 06 MIT DEVELOP STACKABLE CARS
3 JAN 06 ENRON CASE THREATENS DIRECTORS WITH 25 YEARS.
7 DEC 05 A diversion into Intelligent Design
4 NOV 05 BIG BROTHER in the workplace A backward step
4 NOV 05 Microsoft invest in VOIP & Live Office
24 OCT 05 Time is running out, maybe The oil fuel crisis