Live-Work in a VM environment
VMware, which manages most computing server-side and communicates the results to practically any screen anywhere, can transform even the most humble computer or TV screen into super-powerful data crunching and scenario-running appliances. This could finally untether the information worker from the traditional workplace. Nearly all computer work can be done more efficiently at any touchscreen, even on the smartphone. In a "virtual machine" environment, any dataset an entity holds can be run in any application it can access, and on-the-fly pragmatic choice of operating system will become second nature.
$25 USB-size "computers" are a reality even now (see "Rasberry Pi") and VMware or equivalent might allow literally any view screen to become multiple virtual corporate workstations commanding complex software and supporting video teleconferencing. The solid-state nature of "zero-clients" means that there is nothing for the IT group to support in the field. If any one screen or a USB plug-in breaks somewhere, the user can move immediately to another and continue working. All data remains securely inside the data centers, with greatly enhanced access and flexibility. Users will be able to view and analyze that data robustly through every model, method, and statistical test that “the cloud” can muster. This holds forth the tantalizing promise of ever more productivity from a truly unleashed global workforce.
How will private and public goods be distributed in such an environment? Will people find work-homes with the kinds of gathering spots, educational and comfort amenities and basic goods and services all within a smart-phone tele-conversation's walking distance? Will these neighborhoods disperse into Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City where happy farmers organically toil and the best of nature finds restoration near every Live-Workhouse Pod, while residents wear their VM helmets to zip here and there at leisure in their hour-capable MultiCopters (see the "e-Volo Multicopter")?
Alternatively, will some of the great towers of Wright-Le Corbusier-Mies van der Rohe at last be green-built into self-sustaining hives of super human (and/or other animal?) activity? Perhaps clustered around an interior space-elevator site and surrounded outside by a spectacular combination of natural and working lands? Can these locations be chosen with the greatest cooperative strategy relative to each other and to the non-hive society below? And can these built environments, including what we today call urban infrastructure, be easily deconstructed for reuse as the shorelines encroach and climate zones travel pole ward?
Will Bitcoin-style distributed financial processing occur at solar-powered servers in every Live-Workhouse in the world, allowing money once again to become a medium of exchange rather than a measure of wealth (see "Bitcoin")? The Bitcoin idea distributes the work of tracking economic transactions the same way the World Wide Web and IP generally distributed the work of telecommunication. It could also help the economy deflate to a new "gold standard", freeing us from slavery to physical growth for fear's sake.
Will the logistical-distribution industry then be the next to democratize, so that any traveler can elect to carry a vehicle-limited weight of GPS-aware packages along even slight portions of their routes toward final delivery? And rewards for helping a weatherproof package along the way could increase with a multiple of distance closed and difference from "normal" delivery progress, denoted by the rainbow hue of its flashing GPS ribbon - lime green being right on track, the infrared end being quite late and the ultraviolet end being much faster than usual - with direction of travel indicated by which portion of the ribbon is glowing brightest - every package is its own compass. Then sending a package from anywhere to anyone would become as easy as releasing a feather to the wind.
Will abundant generosity and kindness while striving to make meaningful contributions of your time on Earth become truer measures of wealth and power? Will the workforce discover a new equilibrium balancing hard work, food, rest and pleasure-seeking? How will children be treated in such an open and driven society? Will new and more helpful forms of family relationship evolve?
How will all society ensure that the top 1% do not covet either their current account nor financial account wealth but engage in a vigorous disbursement program to empower as much future good as possible, commensurate with their status measured at each perhaps 5 year Census? This would be a far different world if every millionaire died penniless but completely fulfilled. How will all society ensure that every member wherever they may be, especially those in the completely dependent lower 5%, participates in a thriving community of around 150 people (see "Dunbar's number") who know, love and commit to be locally connected with them whenever they're around? Perhaps a different 150 individuals would form this community in every locality that a society member may custom. If this can be achieved, society will become entirely self-regulating and most police work and incarceration can finally end, or at least focus on criminal behavior that damages many locations or the economy-environment-information commons as a whole.
So dear readers, one step at a time; allow for Live-Work facilities for sure! Still, I've been somewhat shocked by the speed of technological and environmental change lately, and I think change may overwhelm the whole idea of legal-illegal codes shortly unless we can transition our living-working-transit spaces apace.
VMware, which manages most computing server-side and communicates the results to practically any screen anywhere, can transform even the most humble computer or TV screen into super-powerful data crunching and scenario-running appliances. This could finally untether the information worker from the traditional workplace. Nearly all computer work can be done more efficiently at any touchscreen, even on the smartphone. In a "virtual machine" environment, any dataset an entity holds can be run in any application it can access, and on-the-fly pragmatic choice of operating system will become second nature.
$25 USB-size "computers" are a reality even now (see "Rasberry Pi") and VMware or equivalent might allow literally any view screen to become multiple virtual corporate workstations commanding complex software and supporting video teleconferencing. The solid-state nature of "zero-clients" means that there is nothing for the IT group to support in the field. If any one screen or a USB plug-in breaks somewhere, the user can move immediately to another and continue working. All data remains securely inside the data centers, with greatly enhanced access and flexibility. Users will be able to view and analyze that data robustly through every model, method, and statistical test that “the cloud” can muster. This holds forth the tantalizing promise of ever more productivity from a truly unleashed global workforce.
How will private and public goods be distributed in such an environment? Will people find work-homes with the kinds of gathering spots, educational and comfort amenities and basic goods and services all within a smart-phone tele-conversation's walking distance? Will these neighborhoods disperse into Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City where happy farmers organically toil and the best of nature finds restoration near every Live-Workhouse Pod, while residents wear their VM helmets to zip here and there at leisure in their hour-capable MultiCopters (see the "e-Volo Multicopter")?
Alternatively, will some of the great towers of Wright-Le Corbusier-Mies van der Rohe at last be green-built into self-sustaining hives of super human (and/or other animal?) activity? Perhaps clustered around an interior space-elevator site and surrounded outside by a spectacular combination of natural and working lands? Can these locations be chosen with the greatest cooperative strategy relative to each other and to the non-hive society below? And can these built environments, including what we today call urban infrastructure, be easily deconstructed for reuse as the shorelines encroach and climate zones travel pole ward?
Will Bitcoin-style distributed financial processing occur at solar-powered servers in every Live-Workhouse in the world, allowing money once again to become a medium of exchange rather than a measure of wealth (see "Bitcoin")? The Bitcoin idea distributes the work of tracking economic transactions the same way the World Wide Web and IP generally distributed the work of telecommunication. It could also help the economy deflate to a new "gold standard", freeing us from slavery to physical growth for fear's sake.
Will the logistical-distribution industry then be the next to democratize, so that any traveler can elect to carry a vehicle-limited weight of GPS-aware packages along even slight portions of their routes toward final delivery? And rewards for helping a weatherproof package along the way could increase with a multiple of distance closed and difference from "normal" delivery progress, denoted by the rainbow hue of its flashing GPS ribbon - lime green being right on track, the infrared end being quite late and the ultraviolet end being much faster than usual - with direction of travel indicated by which portion of the ribbon is glowing brightest - every package is its own compass. Then sending a package from anywhere to anyone would become as easy as releasing a feather to the wind.
Will abundant generosity and kindness while striving to make meaningful contributions of your time on Earth become truer measures of wealth and power? Will the workforce discover a new equilibrium balancing hard work, food, rest and pleasure-seeking? How will children be treated in such an open and driven society? Will new and more helpful forms of family relationship evolve?
How will all society ensure that the top 1% do not covet either their current account nor financial account wealth but engage in a vigorous disbursement program to empower as much future good as possible, commensurate with their status measured at each perhaps 5 year Census? This would be a far different world if every millionaire died penniless but completely fulfilled. How will all society ensure that every member wherever they may be, especially those in the completely dependent lower 5%, participates in a thriving community of around 150 people (see "Dunbar's number") who know, love and commit to be locally connected with them whenever they're around? Perhaps a different 150 individuals would form this community in every locality that a society member may custom. If this can be achieved, society will become entirely self-regulating and most police work and incarceration can finally end, or at least focus on criminal behavior that damages many locations or the economy-environment-information commons as a whole.
So dear readers, one step at a time; allow for Live-Work facilities for sure! Still, I've been somewhat shocked by the speed of technological and environmental change lately, and I think change may overwhelm the whole idea of legal-illegal codes shortly unless we can transition our living-working-transit spaces apace.
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