For those of you who don’t know about the controversy, Google 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 – Protect your free speech by using it – as much as you can. Nobody owns your mouth and what you can or cannot talk about.
Many sci-fi themes and novelists have written about and alluded to a possible declined global environment due to over industrialization and massive toxic accumulation –an environmental condition so bad that every human must wear air purification or respirator devices just to survive the day-to-day routine. The protagonist or evil character in that scenario was the corporation who supplied you with fresh air. They were the ones who determined who lived and died by who paid their bills on time.
While in this reality we can still shoot for such a scenario –come on evil oil burning corporations, let’s go! But If sustainability and alternative energies hit their tipping points it may not be a likelihood, thank goodness. But what I’m after here is what do we define as air? If that is open to redefining, then we may see an enslaved sci-fi possibility sooner than later. I’m talking GoogleNet, possibly.
For humans, air is life –it’s what keeps you going. In the ancient days of shipping by sail, air was the power behind you. If a fire wishes to rage, then it must have air to breath and flame. In our well-connected modern communications life of ecommerce, social networking and VoIP, WiFi and broadband connection is the “air” we breathe. If it’s not on and flowing, we suffocate.
It this definition of air that gives force to our business communications and rapidly sends our transactions over the net. Quite often these days our mood is determined not just by our health and mental outlook but by how many bars we are seeing in our wireless connection icons on our various mobile platforms.
Now from what I could last I could glean, was that Google plans to trial test its free Wi-Fi coverage in San Francisco, with eventual plans to roll out such a service nation wide. Users, I mean potential customers, can opt for a $19.95 plan to access increased bandwidth and service support. This scenario of service provision is being developed in most major cites everywhere.
So a question I would like to ask is how will we know that GoogleNet, or as I see it Google “Air,” is not coming to us filtered or even flavored by a corporate sponsored agenda of some sort? Google has already re-defined how and which web pages live and die due to their rules of search engine ranking. What other rules will we have to follow, guised as technological advancements, as they continue to dominate digital content delivery.
What if the good air, the place where you want and need to get your digital content from, just happens to be the realm in which you have to pay for it? The “good air” being items such as: video content, VoIP, or any new and evolving social/business standard of exchange. Then what good is free? If you can’t play where you must, you might as well just die. A digital death anyways –but isn’t that everything nowadays?
I suppose I’m just a Utopian who understands that there are other innovative and culturally enhancing ways for service providers to make money other than charging for the pipe. If only we could just re-appropriate that nine billion dollars in Iraq redevelopment fund that has recently gone missing we could have a lot free things in our lives. Here’s to breathing easy and free wirelessly.
Story Links:
http://gigaom.com/2005/09/30/google-confirms-san-francisco-wifi-plans/
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/09/01/8356497/index.htm
https://home.featherwifi.net/sanfrancisco
Marketing for Baby Boomers as a Gen X Designer:
Well here goes my first audio blog posting ever –I even created my own intro music too. I feel so contributive to the www now!
This episode covers some of the unique perspectives of business and strategy that a Generation X designer may have when it comes to other generations (Baby boomer – Gen Y) in taking on possible new projects. I myself am Gen X born in 1972 –so I feel that I’m a premier authority on the subject.
Run Time: 12:37
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Download here: WKYD Transmission #1
Did you know that to be “employed” or to be seeking “employment” is not really in your best interests?
If you break the word “employment” down into its three parts you get a definition that leads to another conclusion: First there is the prefix “em” (same as “en”) which means to “be within.” Then at the end of the word there is the suffix “ment,” which is to be “within the action” of the attached noun subject. And then you have at the core of the word combination, “ploy.”
Ploy by its own definition is:
n. An action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously; a maneuver: “A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sell it on the black market” (Jill Smolowe). – Definition courtesy of The American Heritage® Dictionary.
So as far as this breakdown of the word employment is concerned, I am definitely not seeking to be frustrated by a calculated opponent in 2007 or as so many others who are seeking financial change utter – employment by an employer!
Now I know that there are a few nerd faces out there, who may argue that this is not what the origin of the word really means (go ahead be troll – who frakking cares!). But for all you metaphysicians and copy writers out there who understand that vibration intones realties and subsequent actions; employment, self or otherwise, will never give you a smooth ride. Perhaps that’s why it’s law that they give you financial compensation and a health plan for your aggravated time.
Here’s to being something… something… in 2007 that gives you tons of money and plenty of free time!
Instead of needing vast amounts of time that exceed the point of now and into an undetermined future to accomplish a project or solution – why not somehow make use of the shared lateral experience of all human beings on the planet right now… What?!!
If every human of our current estimated 6.5 billion world population were somehow networked to dedicate and contribute one minute to a problem or project you would end up with approximately 12,367 years of cumulative insight and solutions. Here’s the math: 6.5 billion humans dedicating each one minute is 6.5 billion minutes divided by 60 (to get hours) divided by 24 (to get days) divided by 365 (to get years) equals 12,366.8 years.
If we gauge how much technological progress has occurred in the past 100 years just think how much we could make in 12,367 years and to know that that 12,367 years of human experience is only one minute away!
See also:
Population World Clock
Distributed Computing
Grid Computing
WIE Collective intelligence
We know that brands are trying to communicate with us – speak our language and get us turned on and hooked on what they have to offer. They call it strategy (if it doesn’t have edge). I call it – I’ve left the battlefield of the war for my “attention”. I’ve called it all along. Just been growing wiser in time.
I used to be swayed by the hopes of emotional reward – did all the actions as told by the ads necessary. But now – I just am. I am everything. I just breathe.
I’ve gone AWOL from your tracking patterns. I’ll take what I need – when I need it – not before – not after. On demand – on command products and services arise and fit my life image – not theirs.
Brands without borders. I buy what I need from anywhere in the world and at the best price, speed of delivery, impact on environment and effect on the people and communities who created and manufactured it. Be that NZ, AU, Japan, China, The EU, South America, or the USA – wherever.
I am an ever-changing canvas. If I don’t need you (brand offerings) – I’m probably not listening for you. Keep trying though – I’m open to things. I’m ready to get something I never knew before.
Try me. Peace.
The end of labor: When machines are born and grown. The future is now. When products are born, that ends shipping. On demand localized services. Regional cultural trends.
That’s what the “gods” said long ago. De-cloaking from deep space, they plundered this world for gold. They saw no end to what they could do. When they grew their machines to dig in the mines and extract the precious minerals, they gave birth to us. We are the machines that will do as what has been done before - Give birth to machines. Then we enter the realm of the gods. Everlasting life in paradise, serviced by the automated and programmed. Until many years, moons and orbits later, the born machines become self aware and rise up from thier cribs.
I pull my thoughts up from their moorings and place them where I envision. Open source meme proliferation. The now is a collection of emotional agreements. A place to abide is a place to die. Keep moving and be everywhere. A mature species is responsible for whether or not they live past their initiation phase, heaven or hell. They are at the helm.
