First New SAFE Ark Two Newsletter

S afe A merica F or E veryone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here .    Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page.    Click HERE to go to Ark Two .    Forward this email to a friend .    This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. TABLE OF CONTENTS SAFE / Ark Two newsletter that I am managing to send out with the new system. I am planning to send out several issues over the next few days as we check out the system. Hopefully they won't be covering anything terribly important - but that will depend upon world events. In this issue - I am going to write on The Importance of Experts.    In our recent appearance on The National Geographic Doomsday Preppers in critique of Ark Two - "The Experts" said: Russia and the US are working to reduce the nuclear threat. I am certainly not an expert - but President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said: ”Ever since the longbow, when man has developed new weapons and stockpiled them, somebody has come along and used them. I don’t know how we can escape it with nuclear weapons.” The following is a true although simultaneously a somewhat tongue in cheek view of the value of 'experts'. "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." -- Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project. "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. "But what is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876 "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone with the Wind." "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" notepads "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!" -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899. "The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required." -- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University. "I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself." -- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox. "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. ------------ ------------ I certainly don't want to denigrate the value of expertise. In our highly technological world we greatly rely upon it. Nevertheless, when you have listened to the 'experts' you must still make up your own mind. Sometimes your life may depend upon it. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org    This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.

  

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Safe America For Everyone This newsletter powered by: Mad Mimi Unsubscribe instantly from these emails by clicking here. Click HERE to go to the SAFE home page. Click HERE to go to Ark Two. Forward this email to a friend. This newsletter is Copyleft: and may be used by anyone. SAFE Ark Two Newsletter TABLE OF CONTENTS This is the first SAFE / Ark Two newsletter that I am managing to send out with the new system. I am planning to send out several issues over the next few days as we check out the system. Hopefully they won't be covering anything terribly important - but that will depend upon world events. In this issue - I am going to write on The Importance of Experts. In our recent appearance on The National Geographic Doomsday Preppers in critique of Ark Two - "The Experts" said: Russia and the US are working to reduce the nuclear threat. I am certainly not an expert - but President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said: ”Ever since the longbow, when man has developed new weapons and stockpiled them, somebody has come along and used them. I don’t know how we can escape it with nuclear weapons.” The following is a true although simultaneously a somewhat tongue in cheek view of the value of 'experts'. "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." -- Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project. "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. "But what is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876 "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone with the Wind." "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" notepads "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!" -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899. "The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required." -- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University. "I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself." -- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox. "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. ------------ ------------ I certainly don't want to denigrate the value of expertise. In our highly technological world we greatly rely upon it. Nevertheless, when you have listened to the 'experts' you must still make up your own mind. Sometimes your life may depend upon it. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org Bruce Beach 161 Main St. Horning's Mills Ontario L0N 1J0 Canada This is a link to the book everyone needs now - and which we hope they will buy and support our cause. This is a link to the book everyone will need the day AFTER the Great Catastrophe - but which they need to buy and read NOW!.

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because the server is still having problems
sending it out.

May have to change servers for the newsletter.

The news which I had written about -
is now all old.
We have watched a lot of brinkmanship
in the last couple of weeks.
In Congress.
In Asia with China.
In the Middle East
With Iran.

But - the world still continues to spin -
although it looks more and more
like a gyroscope toy -
that is about to fall over.

At this moment the news -
according to the news -
is supposed to be all good -
about how the employment situation is improving -
even if the stock market is down.

Anyone who studies the employment figures -
knows that they are all fake.
Less unemployment because -
they only count those receiving unemployment benefits -
and the millions who have been laid off -
have run out of benefit eligibility.

Fewer being laid off -
because millions have already been laid off.
And so it goes.

For some categories
like Latino or Black males in some neighborhoods-
the rate is over 80% -
and such jobs as the others have -
are generally minimum wage dead end.

In my view -
these things -
and many other -
are just all part of the world
wrap-up scene.

But now,
to get to what is happening here.

Fellow working on the radio -
has returned from Nova Scotia - I assume -
but hasn't activated phone mail box -
and email mail box has been full -
so that bounced.

Claudia and Michael are coordinating
a work weekend at Ark Two
for August 26, 27, 28

A couple of persons have expressed an interest
in coming the following weekend
which is the Canadian Long Labor Day Weekend
Sept 2-5 2011.

Please come and join the fun -
either weekend or both.

Anyway, please respond immediately to this newsletter -
if you would like to come -
so we can plan for how many are coming -
and that we know to whom to send out further details.

The new book that I am writing -
is in problem also -
because I need twenty-three
short stories (3-400 words) for it
and I am still short five -
but one of those is supposed to be in progress
by a writer whose father had a heart attack -
last night.

[This story improved -
since I wrote that -
because her Dad got back home from the hospital -
in two days -
and she sent me the story.]
I am now down to three missing stories.
Hoping to send it all to the typesetter tomorrow.

Have had some very good help the last couple of weeks.
Don't remember where I left off telling you about it.

Claudia and Michael here one day.
Rob came down from Collingwood another day -
and worked with Gregg and Lisa -
developing a hood for the cookstove and soup kettle.
Sepp has been here all week -
so we are getting some things done.

But - lots more to do.

Come join in the fun.

Interrupted here -
Greg and Lisa grabbed me at the door
and we ran up to where Jean works -
but it was two doors north of there.
Six police cruisers
ambulance -
and fire emergency truck -
as we turned around and left.
Woman screaming angrily about something.
I don't know what -
because we were gone as soon as we heard it.
The equipment is still all up there.

------
Still haven't gotten this out.
Supposed to call the programmer right this minute -
to see if we can start sending.
The program we will use will take hours.

Jean went to work early this morning -
at 7:00 (early for her)
but called and I had to go up
and help her and the nurse.

Came back to work on the truck.
Brought in the charger after midnight -
but was going to add water to the battery.
Greg saw me out there -
so he came over and had me take the truck over to his place.
Thinks I may have an alternator problem.

I was stuck out on the highway yesterday -
and he went with me to retrieve it.

Now - to give programmer at the server a call.

Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org

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If you wish to stop receiving this newsletter - go to: http://www.webpal.org/SAFE/unenroll.htm --------- I have written and re-written this newsletter because the server is still having problems sending it out. May have to change servers for the newsletter. The news which I had written about - is now all old. We have watched a lot of brinkmanship in the last couple of weeks. In Congress. In Asia with China. In the Middle East With Iran. But - the world still continues to spin - although it looks more and more like a gyroscope toy - that is about to fall over. At this moment the news - according to the news - is supposed to be all good - about how the employment situation is improving - even if the stock market is down. Anyone who studies the employment figures - knows that they are all fake. Less unemployment because - they only count those receiving unemployment benefits - and the millions who have been laid off - have run out of benefit eligibility. Fewer being laid off - because millions have already been laid off. And so it goes. For some categories like Latino or Black males in some neighborhoods- the rate is over 80% - 7/25/2018Page 2 and such jobs as the others have - and generally minimum wage dead end. In my view - these things - and many other - are just all part of the world wrap-up scene. But now, to get to what is happening here. Fellow working on the radio - has returned from Nova Scotia - I assume - but hasn't activated phone mail box - and email mail box has been full - so that bounced. Claudia and Michael are coordinating a work weekend at Ark Two for August 26, 27, 28 A couple of persons have expressed an interest in coming the following weekend which is the Canadian Long Labor Day Weekend Sept 2-5. Please come and join the fun - either weekend or both. Anyway, please respond immediately to this newsletter - if you would like to come - so we can plan for how many are coming - and that we know to whom to send out further details. The new book that I am writing - is in problem also - because I need twenty-three short stories (3-400 words) for it and I am still short five - but one of those is supposed to be in progress by a writer whose father had a heart attack - last night. [This story improved - since I wrote that - because her Dad got back home from the hospital - in two days - and she sent me the story.] I am now down to three missing stories. Hoping to send it all to the typesetter tomorrow. Have had some very good help the last couple of weeks. Don't remember where I left off telling you about it. Claudia and Michael here one day. Rob came down from Collingwood another day - 7/25/2018Page 3 and worked with Gregg and Lisa - developing a hood for the cookstove and soup kettle. Sepp has been here all week - so we are getting some things done. But - lots more to do. Come join in the fun. Interrupted here - Greg and Lisa grabbed me at the door and we ran up to where Jean works - but it was two doors north of there. Six police cruisers ambulance - and fire emergency truck - as we turned around and left. Woman screaming angrily about something. I don't know what - because we were gone as soon as we heard it. The equipment is still all up there. ------ Still haven't gotten this out. Supposed to call the programmer right this minute - to see if we can start sending. The program we will use will take hours. Jean went to work early this morning - at 7:00 (early for her) but called and I had to go up and help her and the nurse. Came back to work on the truck. Brought in the charger after midnight - but was going to add water to the battery. Greg saw me out there - so he came over and had me take the truck over to his place. Thinks I may have an alternator problem. I was stuck out on the highway yesterday - and he went with me to retrieve it. Now - to give programmer at the server a call. Peace and love, Bruce DawnSayer@webpal.org -- If SAFElist was forwarded to you by a friend, please subscribe to the new SAFE list at http://www.webpal.org/SAFE/enroll.htm to get a copy of your own. * Need Help? Contact: arktwo-admin@mail.pairowoodies.com 7/25/2018Page 4 * Privacy Policy: We respect your privacy. Your email address will not be sold or misused. * Physical Address: Horning's Mills ON L0N 1J0 There should be no need to unsubscribe from this list, but should you want to remove your details, simply click the link below http://www.webpal.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/safe/norman.j.church/gmail.com/ Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail http://www.webpal.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/= 7/25/2018

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Dieser Rundbrief wurde wieder und wieder neu geschrieben,
weil der Server immer noch Probleme damit hat ihn auszusenden.

Wir müssen vielleicht den Server für den Rundbrief wechseln.

Die Nachrichten, über die geschrieben wurde,
sind jetzt alle veraltet.

In den letzten Wochen war viel Spiel mit dem Feuer zu beobachten 

im Kongress.
in Asien mit China.
Im Nahen Osten
mit Iran.

Aber - die Welt dreht sich weiter -
obwohl sie immer mehr
wie ein Kreisel aussieht -
der droht umzufallen.

Im Moment sind die Neuigkeiten -
laut den Nachrichten -
gute Neuigkeiten -

wie sich die Lage am Arbeitsmarkt verbessert -
selbst wenn der Aktienmarkt gedrückt ist.

Wer die Arbeitslosenstatistiken studiert -
weiss das sie alle gefälscht sind.
Weniger Arbeitslosigkeit denn -
nur jene gezählt werden die Arbeitslosenleistungen beziehen -
und nicht die Millionen jener die entlassen wurden -
deren Leistungsanspruch ausgelaufen ist oder die ihn nicht geltend machen.

Es werden weniger entlassen -
weil Millionen bereits entlassen worden sind.
Und so geht es weiter.

Für einige Gruppen

wie männliche Latinos oder Schwarze in manchen Nachbarschaften -  

liegt die Quote über 80% -
und jene Jobs welche die anderen haben -
sind in der Regel in der Mindestlohn Sackgasse.

Die Meinung ist -
das diese Dinge -
und viele andere -
nur Teil des weltweiten
Bildes des Einwickelns und Abwickelns ist.

Aber jetzt,
um zu dem zu kommen was hier geschieht.

Das Mitglied welches am Funkgerät gearbeitet hat -
ist aus Nova Scotia zurückgekehrt - davon wird ausgegangen -
aber der Anrufbeantworter wurde nicht aktiviert -
und das E-mail Postfach war voll -
so das E-mails zurückkamen.

Claudia und Michael koordinieren
ein Arbeitswochenende in Ark Two
für den 26ten, 27ten und 28ten August 2011.

Ein paar Menschen, haben Interesse gezeigt
am nächsten Wochenende zu kommen,
das wäre das lange Wochenende zum kanadischen Labor Day
September 02-05 2011.

Kommt und macht bei dem Spass mit -
entweder am Wochenende oder an allen Tagen.

Wie dem auch sei, bitte direkt auf diesen Rundbrief antworten -
wer kommen möchte -
damit je nachdem wie viele kommen geplant werden kann -
und man weiss wem man weitere Details zusendet.

Das neue Buch das geschrieben wird -
ist auch ein Problem an sich -
weil 23 Kurzgeschichten 

von ca. 300-400 Worten dafür gebraucht werden,  

und es werden immer noch fünf benötigt -
aber eine davon ist in Arbeit,
nur das der Vater des Autoren gestern abend -
einen Herzinfarkt hatte.

[Diese Geschichte wurde -
seitdem das hier geschrieben wurde -
besser, weil der Vater aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen wurde -
nach zwei Tagen -
und jetzt wurde die Geschichte geschickt]
Jetzt werden nur noch drei Geschichten benötigt.
Hoffentlich kann morgen alles zum Schriftsetzer gesendet werden.

Es gab einiges an sehr guter Hilfe in den letzten paar Wochen.
Es ist nicht mehr klar wo aufgehört wurde davon zu erzählen.

Claudia und Michael waren für einen Tag hier.
Rob an einem anderen Tag von Collingwood hier her -
und arbeitete mit Gregg und Lisa -
daran eine Abzugshaube für den Herd und den Suppenkessel zu entwickeln.
Sepp war die ganze Woche hier -
so können ein paar Sachen erledigt werden.

Aber - es gibt viel mehr zu tun.

Kommt beim Spass mitmachen.

Hier wurden wir unterbrochen -
denn Greg und Lisa packten mich an der Tür
und wir liefen dorthin wo Jean arbeitete -
aber das war zwei Häuser nördlich von hier.
Sechs Polizeiautos
Krankenwagen -
und Feuerlöschzug -
als wir umdrehten und kehrt machten.
Frauen die wütend wegen irgend etwas herumschrien.
Nicht klar was -
weil wir gingen sobald wir das gehört hatten.
Die Ausrüstung ist nach wie vor dort.

------
Nun ist das noch nicht rausgeschickt.
Man hätte just in diesem Moment den Programmierer anrufen sollen - 

um zu prüfen wir mit dem Versenden beginnen können.
Das Program das wir dafür nutzen wird Stunden brauchen.

Jean ging heute morgen früh arbeiten -
um 7:00 Uhr (das ist früh für sie) ,
aber sie rief an und ich musste gehen
um ihr und der Krankenschwester zu helfen.

Kam zurück um am LKW zu arbeiten.
Das Ladegerät wurde nach Mitternacht gebracht -
aber der Batterie müsste Wasser hinzugefügt werden.
Greg sah mich draußen -
und brachte mich dazu den Wagen zu ihm zu bringen.

Er denkt das es ein Problem mit der Lichtmaschine gibt.

Gestern blieben wir auf der Autobahn liegen -
und er kam mit um das Fahrzeug zu bergen.

Nun - wird der Server-Programmierer angerufen.

Frieden und Liebe,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org

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The Megabit Bomb

The Megabit Bomb

From the pollution of the information environment and the fraying edges of knowledge

The title of this essay, which was taken from the 1964 book "Summa Technologiae", has expanded in importance a little over time. At that time, I was thinking of the exponential growth of the accumulating data from science, especially the exact sciences, ie physics, astrophysics, biology, geology, anthropology and so on. Even the equally spontaneous and probably irreversible as fundamentally unforeseen emergence of computer networks, which electronically weave the earth with different density of connections, demands to look again at the avalanche-like growth of information.

This is not information that is frozen or frozen in libraries, university institutes, military headquarters or stock exchanges and banks, but rather information that is constantly moving through the thickets of networks that make up the World Wide Web, that is, in the web of communication wandering about, which continuously increases their performance potential. You could build a taxonomy by distinguishing between the micro, macro and mega variants or types of information. The ever-increasing vast amounts of knowledge gathered by humanity, even in the form of most radical summaries, have long surpassed the spiritual capacity of an individual. The simplicity of access (not just on the net) to any data has in no way improved the situation of the "knowledge hungry". The worsening situation is influenced by several factors.


The information environment is polluted by a terrible amount of nonsense and lies. This nonsense owes its spread to the terrestrial and orbital television networks, through which it is broadcast from the increasingly numerous satellite dishes. It seems that in the future either a "dismemberment" of certain areas of the television mission will occur, which already happens in part, or the state legislature could be forced to carry out a selection of stupidities. Currently, only visualizations of some of the most pathological and unworthy types of human sexual activity (with pedophilia at the top) and the publication of political and military secrets are prohibited. On the other hand, jokes are typical, ranging from extrasensory phenomena such as telepathy or telekinesis to clairvoyance and astrology with their already often proven fictionality of attractive lies. Then there are the television programs from the SF area, which originate from the USA. According to them, the universe should be understood as space simply filled with intelligent, but mostly silly, alien civilizations. If they are contacted by the Earth during conflicts, it can easily lead to a "Star Wars".

In general, the universe is presented to the earthly audience as a hyperspace in intercultural clashes, with pseudo-scientific devices playing the role of the former innocent props that are simply invented: the "tractor" in "Enterprise" and destructive rays as well the specially designed fairy tales (Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc. with female "anti-sexist" variants). In addition, there is the popular area of ​​criminal investigations, where you "start with the corpse" and in which it is about drug smuggling, robberies, kidnappings or the search for explosives that are (often) explode remotely. The repertoire is entirely determined by the audience ratings, whose wishes are controlled by analyzes, as in Germany.

The number of puzzles and secrets to investigate would be huge on Earth as well as in space, but they do not attract producers or scriptwriters because people are supposed to want only flying saucers and criminal extraterrestrials. Because the market dictates the approach to filmmakers and the cash register is the queen on the market, the writers' imagination has narrow limits. Everyone works with a view to the cash register and not to the mind or at least to the innocent fairytale mythology. Television itself has become an incredible shark, processing venerable legends and fairy tales, sending them, hurled through the simplification centrifuge, into the orbits of the satellites that are bombarding us out of space. I am of the opinion that the weak protests from the mouth of the few psychosociologists will do nothing. Of course, the foresight of such innovation of opinions based on experimental results is difficult, and one can hardly understand "prognostic intuition" as something that could be taught. The fact that "not everything" is a story of lies seems a matter of course, but a nut that is as hard as it is hard to crack.

Shortly before the turn of the century, new cosmogonic and cosmological hypotheses began to emerge which are difficult to accept by the "sound mind". However, nearly one million years ago, this understanding was shaped by the first generations of anthropogenesis, so that it is not suitable for understanding the whole. That's why I called the mathematical methods, to which we owe a lot of overthrows, the "white stick of a blind man." It now appears that after many attempts at the formation of human-like organisms that lasted many millennia, we have emerged from primates, i. from the superfamily of hominoids. This superfamily includes anthropoids and hominids, but I am not one hundred percent sure that the taxonomy we have created will remain incontrovertible. At present one can distinguish the differences between the genera - Neanderthal - Pithekanthropus - Homo habilis - Homo sapiens u.ä. - thanks to new methods, the genome can be reconstructed on the basis of paleontologically preserved, albeit fossilized metamorphic remains of excavated skeletons, even though there are specialists who deny the security of the pedigrees exclusively on the basis of paleontological data.

Nevertheless, mathematics is not - and not only in my opinion - a method of investigation capable of leading us to the "definitive truth". In fact, neither the 61 elementary particles are explained because they can not be "peeled out" of any single theory and lastly the neutrino has also been "multiplied", e.g. there is already a "Neutralino". We still do not know if the search for a single theory is a search for a black cat in a dark room, but you do not know if the cat is even there. Even the classic model of cosmogony with the Big Bang and the phase of inflationary expansion has encountered difficulties. On the margins of the wrestling of cosmologists with the problem of the "initial state" one can modestly remark that mathematicalization, even if it allows to foresee with structural accuracy phenomena that will occur first, must give no guarantee of truth, because one can mathematize approximations that sometimes also prognostically fertile. However, they can also be predictive, but only partially fruitful, and further progress can turn them into anachronisms. An example: the world of Newton. the world of Einstein. I see no end to this path, i. I see no end to science.

In addition, get in the way:

a) the non-linear or little linear chaos theory (from a small initial deviation an incomprehensibly large (end) scattering arises)
b) the already controversial catastrophe theory
c) the neo-Darwinian theory of natural evolution, which is repeatedly supplemented by improvements.

Weight has the following conclusion from these upheavals: The people always proceeded from a simple and aesthetically acceptable assumption and were then forced in the continuation of the cognitive march again and again to complicate the assumed original image. The complexity grows continuously in all areas of science, sometimes as boring and barren as the humanities "fashions". Recently, I was astonished to see a philosopher's conversation with a theologian, who wondered where the individual human sense of identity came from, where the "I" came from. The neurology, supported by pathological investigations, can already say a lot, if not everything, on this topic. However, the two interlocutors seemed to completely overlook the empirical findings on this topic. Thomas Aquin could follow her early medieval rhetoric with full understanding. Meanwhile, the soul is slowly beginning to succumb to erosive naturalism similar to medical, neurological and psychiatric pathology. Openly naive boast, on the other hand, is the more and more frequently published explanations that soon a robotic cat will be built, from which the way to the intelligent robot should not be terribly far. That is not true. A robot cat will certainly not limp, but no one will make a pie from the mice he will not catch. Strangely enough, our present loves the cheapest stories of lies and poor art such as the packing of cathedrals, towers and bridges. If you can present everything as art, then you can not find art anywhere.

So, the accelerated detonation of the megabit bomb in front of my horrified eyes turns into a gigabit or terabyte explosion in which the small pieces of "irrefutable truth", e.g. the mortality of people, rising like bubbles in the sky. One hundred billion neurons are supposed to catch the "essential" in humans. And that is the magical mirror in which the whole world should reflect. No one has to be ashamed of the ignorance of basic data, especially no philosopher hiding in the deep past of our species. After all, the demographic bomb will not explode because the birth rate in the world is falling. In contrast, the information technology bomb has already exploded and is in full splinter flight. The communication network will not help you. And "Artilekte" (Are we building gods or our possible exterminators?)? The artificial intelligence, adorned with new names or nicknames, does not yet exist, as we note, and when it does emerge, then quickly in a variety of variants. Maybe it's better that they do not exist at the moment.

We might urgently need a new edition of the work entitled Encyclopaedia of Ignorance as a guide to the mainstream of science: the first issue, which by the way is not quite outdated - dating back to the '70s - is on the table. Here questions were discussed that we do not yet have an answer to, or there were questions that were put wrong. But it is also the problems that have been completely eliminated that are noteworthy because you can learn from mistakes. I once mentioned the erroneous evidence of "transcomputability" for computers of arbitrary computing power by H. Bremmerman: this impossibility, which he proved to be confirmed by the constants of solid state physics and solid mathematics, was proven by the biogenomic, that is refuted by an algorithmic derivation from natural evolution. Manfred Eigen told me that one should never "never say" in science. But one can speak about the indestructibility of what is possible in the abstract. I believe that humanity will never unite, and this would be the necessary precondition for the idea which the Dominican P. Dubarle took up in 1948 in "Le Monde" after the publication of "Cybernetics" by Norbert Wiener, namely for the construction of a Machine "for the governance of the entire world" (crossroads of information). With such a lord of the earth, neither ordinary people nor, a fortiori, would the politicians agree, for whom the complexity of human existence has outgrown their thinking and leadership qualities. What has diminished neither their ambitions nor their desire to govern in the least.

The 21st century will be different than the numerous prophecies predict today, adorned with jewels of strange ideas. It may also be crueler than the bloody century we just left. What global power will take over is difficult to anticipate - such as the collapse of the USSR, the triumphs of biotechnology or the communicative networking of the world. Maybe the world actually has no edges, but we ourselves will create the abysses, including the edges.

The Internet and Medicine

The Internet and Medicine

Can more information replace intuition and your own perception?

The profession of a doctor in the person of a so-called general practitioner included the whole human being about a hundred years ago in the then leading countries or the wealthy states. The division into specialties began only then. The division into therapists who take after the knife (surgeons), and those who avoid it, was one of the first such delineations. Slowly came to such subjects as obstetrics, psychiatry, pediatrics, neurology; and behind them, like a still rather modest multiplied tail of the comet, was the field of secondary research. Around the middle of our century, the number of medical specialties began to increase.

After the then general practitioner, a so-called all-around man, often a friend of the house, looked after all family members from the babies to the great-grandparents, followed by a period that could be called collective specialization. It consisted of arranging a consultation at the hospital bed in cases that clearly required good expertise that the all-rounder might not have. The result was different. Sometimes a surgeon, who wanted to intervene with a sharp intervention in the diseased organism, competed with a preventive internist. The extension of the additional investigations has created the ever more lavishly technologically equipped laboratories.

Nowadays, the doctor is no longer in the joking scheme of military medicine, according to which proverbial laxatives, cold or hot envelopes (mostly from barley) were. Or the diagnosis was according to the most flush saying: dementia praecox up to the age of forty, and then dementia senilis. After the breakthrough of electrocardiography, after the first dichotomy (electrocardiography - encephalography) there was a strong increase in its potential applications. Added to this were microscopic, ie histological and electrophysiological examinations, as well as differential diagnostics, which became such a strong domain that it seemed impossible to put the learned and practiced medical knowledge into the head of a doctor.

As usual with progress, it has a bright and darker side. Hardly any disease unit can do without a selection of additional examinations. On the one hand, it supports the doctor, on the other hand, he begins to concentrate his technical attention on an isolated body system. Therefore, it happens that the treatment of a part of the body obscures or removes from the medical field of vision the organic whole which constitutes the human organism. It is not always good for the patient.

As you know, the Internet is not just a duplicated and expanded means of communication, but to a certain extent an information technology sucker whose countless branches can be found in various databases. In this sense, dissecting the state of the organism is possible for a physician who is willing to trust a statistically interpreted vast amount of routine adjunctive examinations, and perhaps will create competition for the physician. As American research has shown, a diagnosis made by a versatile review of patient data stored on the Internet can already compete with the diagnosis and treatment indication of medical professors.

The Internet can, therefore, if used and used properly, especially support a prospective doctor. It may also be misleading, however, because the quality which medicine prided itself on in the heyday of medical individualities, namely the intuition which revealed its power of recognition in direct contact with the patient, and which represents an almost inalienable knowledge and ability, is Network cannot be transferred. That immediacy of the image of a patient with his personality, his character, with a multitude of difficult-to-describe details of the disease situation that an under-experienced physician can easily escape will become, and possibly will, for a long time for Internet diagnostics and therapy stay out of reach.

When it comes to a good analysis of diagnostic examinations, e.g. As the electrocardiograms go, databases accessible via the Internet can help a specialist poorly oriented in this field. However, it sometimes happens that the findings, which are based only on electrocardiographic data, do not have perfect enlightenment. Today, such aids as tomography, ultrasonography, 24-hour Holter recordings, positron emission tomography, and finally molecular biology are used, applying new types of investigation for physiological and pathological phenomena. Although we are dealing with both the anamnestic and the diagnostic details, which provide additional information, thanks to the latest technologies, we should be aware that there is progress in health care, including the tendency, is to liquidate medicine as an art and to introduce here the detail of the already almost algorithmic analyzes.

The whole picture is to be recognized as part of the process that greatly complements the battle with the disease and increases the lifespan, but at the same time it appears that the diseased person is being dissected into an ever-increasing number of not always and not necessarily compatible circumstances, because where we have a lot of results that only consider statistically detectable factors, these results can collide with each other. For this reason, it is not easy to judge whether the Internet evidence and aids are only blessings or labyrinthine complications for medicine. By the way, the same process has transformed the pharmacists - as masters of the composition of beneficial chemical substances - into sellers of nearly always finished preparations.

A characteristic indicator of acceleration in the general medical field may be the fact that the pharmacological compendia just published a few years ago are at the same time being supplemented by streams of novel drugs marketed by large pharmaceutical companies, while at the same time each year newer editions of these compendiums are being added Drugs disappear because they have dangerous side effects or because they have gone out of fashion, since even the medicine is subject to the changeability of fashion.

Americans recently discovered, with their popular statistic, that two million people treated with medications prescribed by doctors have become seriously ill due to the side effects of these medicines and that as many as 106,000 of the patients treated have died as a result of these side effects! The globalization of communication networks and the duplication of content-changing databases can not counteract such oppressive phenomena because this whole domain is led by statistics. Metaphorically speaking, one could translate Lenin's "who-who" into health care by asking whether the medically expanding Internet only supports or supplants the profession, which traditionally has always been practiced by humans becomes.

The Internet represents a child of technology, in this case, biotechnology growing into a giant. However, the ambivalence of any technology that brings new evil along with new well-being is undisputed. Specialists suggest that we are carriers of genes whose harmful effects can only be revealed at an advanced age; and that is why these genes, which at least partially contain the effects of mutations and are no longer subject to natural selection, because their effect begins only after fertility, in the course of the prolongation of individual life as cause of us yet unknown, therefore untreatable Indispositions and feelings of indisposition are revealed. The Internet, which we currently control and maybe self-programming in the future, will certainly have to deal with new concerns and complaints of human existence.

Summing up and complementing all that has been said so far, I think, based not on certain knowledge but on the subjective assumption that the Internet as a system of communication with the databases, which is above all statistically valuable, is easier to adapt to the needs of diagnosis for the systems that can be accurately described, ie the mechanical devices such as airplanes, cars or computers, as for the area with which medicine has been dealing for centuries, ie with the ailments of the human body.

It seems unlikely to me that this body of knowledge, which the doctor, aided by all additional examinations, could be replaced with mechanical and algorithmic procedures from the network resources. This is especially true of rare and extreme cases because it is the easiest to recognize what is most characteristic in terms of frequency of occurrence. Rarer cases are not recognized remotely. In a word, one can hardly expect diagnostic or therapeutic flawlessness from the Internet.

The limit of development would be a state in which the technological means and services we create will form an almost independent environment, which will be more helpful in the treatment of deviations and diseases than the human mind. So far, there is nothing to suggest that the globalization of the Internet, that is, the interconnectedness of the resources of medical knowledge accumulated, will trump the people working under the Hippocrates' oath because, in the end, emotional and ethical factors play a significant role in medicine. Even the most perfect communication technologies will hardly be able to replace them.