Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Short term objectives – Society Changes

● Look at the impact on our society of changes such as fewer menial jobs

Whenever there is change there is fear. People do not like it and thus we must look ahead and try and alleviate these issues.

I foresee several issues with the objectives I have listed.

Improving health care will mean people will live longer and thus put pressure on food, water and living space resources. Retirees will live longer on their pensions. (If they have any after Gordo has finished with them)

Changing the transport facilities will mean that people will suddenly find their old cars out of date. They won’t link with the new system and will be obsolete. So many going at once will kill the second hand market for old style cars.

I’m sure there will be many people who will be concerned about moving underground. Bit like the Morlocks in The Time Machine by HG Wells. Of course it will never come to that but moving underground may seem unnatural. In addition exactly how are we going to handle to homes on the surface. They will not have much value after all.

As robots will be able to perform all the menial tasks what will most of the unskilled in our society do. Personally I see them being better off as the can pursue other activities but that is just my thoughts. It will also mean that money will become less of an issue and how exactly will that work? If people can have a home, be fed and do what they want why would anyone need to work? Star Trek has this as a system but never really explains how it works. Well now we need too.

Personally I have no idea how it will work out with no money as I can’t imagine a society not using it but one thing is certain it needs to be addressed. Perhaps money will always been needed it’s just that for some people there would be no need to have any as they would be happy with the basics.

Short term objectives – Leadership

We now have the technology to allow each of us more involvement in the political process.

● Introduce true leadership using technology and get rid of professional politicians

The last decade has shown us how quickly corrupt politicians can change our way of life. Why do we need to stick to an archaic solution in this modern age?

When our system was first introduced it was impractical for everyone to get involved. It simply took too long for messages to travel back and forward and thus we had representatives to act in our stead. Now these representatives do not represent us at all but have instead set themselves up as a special class, a political class, and are busy corrupting our society for their own ends. Luckily for us there are still some rules in place which they have not yet had the balls to change. They are working on them slowly. We need to act now.

Not long ago they introduced their idea of moving politics into the 21st century. Postal voting. It really made me laugh. The postal system being around for over 100 years at this point.

My idea is slightly different. Why don’t we get rid of the politicians? We no longer need them and no government would have been better than this lot. Look at how well Belgium did without a government. We can replace them with personal involvement and responsibility.

I propose that our process is set up so that anyone who wants a change in the law raises a proposal to do so. Anyone can comment on the benefits and downsides of that proposal and comments will be visible to all. A month, 6 weeks, etc. after the proposal the votes are tallied and a Yay or Nay pronounced. If approved the law would then go through. In not not. Rules would have to be put in place to stop repeated attempts to put the same laws through or repeated attempts with slightly different statements but the same thing. Plus rules on exactly what is acceptable as arguments for either side.

To ensure the voting was fair it would be handled by computer and each voter would use two factor authentication to ensure it was them. This would necessitate a single ID db but similar to the old NI one and not the KGB style one proposed by our current masters.

Basically new law proposed and put on the website. Arguments both ways ensure. Voter logs in reads the arguments and them makes their vote.

This of course necessitates everyone being connected to broadband but this should not be a problem soon.

The biggest downer of all. We are really too thick to do this. Mmmmm. Maybe we need a voters qualification. Pass the test and you can vote.

As the final part of this we need to have the few civil servants left being made accountable to us. I see this being handled by every memo, report, expenses sheet etc. being published on the web for scrutiny. Every department excluding certain departments in the MoD that handle classified materials on spies, troop positions etc. Something that would be useful to the enemy. And before you start showing MPs expenses and how corrupt they are does not qualify.

Short term objectives – Robots

Our time is precious. We have so little of it and certainly not enough to spend doing what we do not want to be doing. We need to fix this.

● Develop robots to do our menial tasks

Now who would not want to never have to work again? I certainly would like the choice. However, we all have to work to live. Well, most of us anyway, some are content to sponge off others all their lives already and watch soaps. But what if we were able to live without work? What if every humans base needs for housing and food were met. Nobody would have to work then. Instead we would be able to spend our time doing what we wanted. Want to play by going skiing? Fine. Want to do some gardening? Fine. Want to fix a leaky sewage pipe. Mmmm. Want to explore the Universe?

Robots come in all shapes and sizes and we already have millions of them doing jobs now. What I’m looking at are specialised robots like little dustcarts going around the house and cleaning up, fixing sewers, fixing gardens and basically getting you what you want. I’m not looking at human like robots either at this stage although eventually I see them being companions as well as the labour. Let’s not let them get too smart though. Robots like these would be fine. Looks like we are already working on them. Must be money to be had here.

In the end we are looking for them to do our daily chores and for us to have more time to do what we want and not for them to decide that we are superfluous. The KISS principle, Keep It Simple Stupid, is best used here. Better to have a few robots doing simple tasks than one super-smart one doing everything including plotting to take over the Earth.

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