White Paper

“U.S. federal investments in government IT spending increased steadily from approximately 36.4 billion dollars in 2001 to 59.3 billion in 2004. According to OMB estimates, eighty percent of this spending is for consultants. Technical expertise and human capital in the federal government is being greatly weakened as a result of the "competitive outsourcing" policy and lack of human capital with IT expertise in the federal government.”

K. E. Fountain, "Prospects for the Virtual State (2004)

The Resilience Project seeks to renew information science by coordinating broad scale collaboration amongst scholars, community leaders, business leaders, innovators, democratic institutions and international agencies. A founding process has been under way since 1994.

The Resilience Project founding process has developed a firm foundation in natural science for community centric information propagation. This means that individual control over information spaces will become better supported.

As the project founding process moves forward, we expect that a technology based on this foundation will become available to the public using free and open standards for representing human knowledge. We feel that this technology will be unburdened by third party ownership, and that information propagation using these standards will not require consulting contracts of software licenses. [4]

The global climate change debate brings much more than a concern about carbon emissions. Increasingly, individual people are expressing concern that commercialism drives our private lives far too hard and often in the wrong direction. Television programming is seen as often debasing, for example. The massive amount of funds spent on the advertising of drugs is often improperly influencing doctor decisions to prescribe medications. Upon meditative reflection we understand that advertising driven consumerism is a core problem, but that capitalism and free markets need not be. [5]

As part of a near future social-economic system, a type of “green” consumerism is possible. The core feature of green consumerism is the presence of transparency on certain aspects of the manufacturing processes. Social institutions are hard pressed to deal effectively the core problems related to manufacturing and the several other related problems. Again, the issue of ownership and transparency is critical. However, the precise measurement of all commodity transport worldwide is entirely possible. [6] Such a measurement would make us safer on a number of fronts, as well as reduce the waste that develops when larger cultural or environmental issues are at stake.

Thousands of groups, small communities, are organizing around the issues related to sustainability, and ecosystem based design. The Resilience Project will empower these groups in certain ways related to the representation and sharing of a community’s knowledge. New types of service industries will develop.

The Resilience Project improves national security, while not increasing the intrusiveness of existing communications surveillance systems. The development of transparency on commodity markets and manufacturing also reduces threats from terrorism.

History is teaching us a lesson. Over the past several decades, and in particular since the year 2000 elections, the federal government increasingly has changed from citizen centric to business centric. We should be clear. The potential for this shift has been building for some time. The foundation for a social world ordered and controlled by lines of business is established in our educational systems. Many people believe that this single social order is to be feared if left in the hands of the few extremely wealthy individuals. On the other hand, a world order that is governed by diversity of culture and respect for life and property is to be anticipated with excitement about the progress of the human spirit.

Our educational institutions suffer from an absence of focus on what makes the good life. For example education, in general, supports television use and related commodity consumption. Our television programming takes thought out of the selection process, as we give up our rights to make healthy choices. Our medical systems serve a few well but are not aware of many healthy practices, including the use of natural substances as preventative medicine. Most Americans are underserved by the health care system. Economic security can be swept away unexpectedly and in a fashion that leaves us without friends or family. The social world is ordered for the purpose of supporting lines of business, and those who are aggressive about forcing as many as possible into that order. What is not as yet factored into the lines of business thinking is the social value of ecosystems that are balanced and thoughtful. The rejection of interest in this social value, by the current dominant business trends, is where the battle lines are drawn. The results of this battle will determine one of two types of globalization: hierarchical and governed by wealth or distributed and honoring of cultural diversity and respect for life.

So with institutional resistant now entrenched, how can we move from the age of almost blind consumerism to enlightened consumerism? The answer is “transparency” over the commodity markets worldwide.

Transparency is related to “resilience” and sustainability. So why is transparency about the markets so difficult to achieve? We believe that this problem starts with the absence of transparency over our own selves. What do we each want, how do we achieve a more quality life for ourselves and for those we love?

We believe that knowledge of self and knowledge of the natural and social world is brought into question by many of the consequences of information technology, as currently defined. Information technology unjustly and incorrectly shifts the authority over moral choice to lines of business that all to often happen to not care very much about consequences other than self centered short term profit. By removing the unjustified authority that the current information technology paradigm has, we open up a new horizon of opportunity. Specifically, many of the lines of business that now enjoys damaging society, like the tobacco industry, will be de-selected either by consumer choice or lawsuits over damages. New entrepreneurship will arise that is focused on business that can withstand transparency over consequences.

Fortunately, a different type of information science is available.

In order that this new science be properly introduced into the university system, a broad based scholarly collaboration is needed at a finer level than we find in our current situation. The supporting literatures are already published and the principles gathered together. These principles are related to fine control over biological growth, including learning and cognition. Using these principles, our individual knowledge of our own health can be acquired as a private property along with an increased awareness of our individual strengths and natures. This possibility might startle many who deeply believe in the current lines of business and social reality. To others, the question arises about how can we manifest this more reasonable and enlightened reality.

Private “conceptual” property, sold as digital content, can be provably secure using internal software self-monitoring that easily provides, when requested, legal review of any reasonably claimed breach of personal privacy. In the lines of business social order, privacy is now so deeply violated that the concept of provably secure conceptual property seems absurd. However, economic security can come from the development of sustainability at a personal level. This sustainability directly appeals to the Constitution and to protections afforded by the Constitution. The simplicity of the new technology (see home page of www.ontologystream.com) creates both an enforcement mechanism and strong oversight on the use of this enforcement mechanism.

A more balanced and sustainable cultural and economic world is being presented for our choices. There is a hope shared by many individuals. Human collaboration could establish the foundation for interactions that are both resilient and sustainable. The single most important enabler of collaboration is clear communication and respect for diversity. Does the current information technology have grounding in human knowledge exchanges in context where diversity is expected? The answer is no. Think about this, the uniformity of the presentations of mass media, the imposition of an almost state religion regarding the rules of capital formation and use, etc.

Ultimately individual collaboration with other individuals is what spiritual discipline is all about, be this discipline exercised within an organized church or within an individual discipline. Collaboration depends on communication and communication depends on spiritual aspects of social reality. The core concept is that human intention should have an unencumbered communication infrastructure where information can be pushed and pulled under some type of responsibility. This responsibility is developed only when there is empowerment of the individual and transparency.

Resilience Project scholarship is interdisciplinary and focused on gaining specific new capabilities related to understanding the natural world and bringing this world into various kinds of balances. We make this effort during this special time in history. Spiritual communities around the world are attempting to interact based on sets of principles that come from meditative experiences. This interaction is guided, in most cases, by a profound understanding that multi-culturalism is an essential element to a peaceful world. The emerging new real time measurement of social discourse is a new foundation for the sharing of positive information. The measurement of the social discourse will occur, and is occurring. If this measurement is conducted and hidden by lines of business; then we have all of the frightening aspects of “big brother”, a merged big brother consisting of government and business with no boundary between.

We cannot turn back. We must accept what the present is in order help build a positive future.

The Failure of the Academy

The Resilience Project founding process advances a finding about current funded scholarship. What we find in American IT programs, both in the university and in the corporate world, has moved away from correct information science. At first this incorrectness is merely something observed and to puzzle over. However, there is now evidence that the incorrectness serves another master. The root cause of many of the essential natures of academic information science and of commercial information technology is a strong dependency on funding from the current economic order. We do not find that capitalism is inferior to any other economic system, the opposite is asserted. We find only that excesses in political and economic control has distorted many lines of scholarship.

In particular, the foundation to the current information science is materialistic and not acknowledging of any sort of spiritual nature.

The spiritual issue is controversial, so I will frame this in other terms. Information about certain categories of private experience is missing. To be specific, we observe the firm establishment of a system of Internet control centered in the hands of IT consultants. We see also information science shaped by the advertising industry, which uses every sexual and deviant spin to sell product. The result is a society that has lost touch with the essential natures of being human. Confusion has been intentional. A false set of “human natures” is asserted, so that the lines of business society can place all of the blame for difficulties on “human nature”. The current business sector “best practices” are the greatest obstacles to our collective effort to meet modern challenges. It is part of a large “singular coherence” that taps almost all available personal energies and natural resources.

The promise of this White Paper is that by correcting information science and eliminating a large percentage of hidden control from the IT sector, we are able to tip the scales and allow the Old World Order to rapidly collapse under its own weight. As this collapse occurs we may find relief in a new sense of optimizing and personal empowerment. What is available as a replacement is a humanistic planetarization of consciousness, empowered with the deep realization that various cultures can and should live in peace, and be respectful of each other.

In follow-on material to this white paper we examine the role of individual human knowledge in building sustainable systems. We observe that the current economic and political system is driving us toward more war and has been supporting a predatory economic structure with less than moral business practices. What we characterize as predatory behavior is not always the case, but is often the case. Corporate raiders, hostile takeovers, and a cultural of CEO greed ravish business processes that hold social value higher than the bottom line. Capitalization does not work for those types of business that have long term goals related to improving overall economic balances. The capitalization processes are singularly controlled by short-term greed and these predatory practices. Capitalism, as practiced, has turned to feed on society. This is not necessary and is not the kind of capitalism that the modern world requires.

In spite of the corporate culture, we see that a new political and economic system is supported on the margins by a new understanding about what being human is. This is the sustainability movement. We propose a transition route that is seen as a counter-trend. We move in the opposite direction from the current communications infrastructure. The public is finally well aware that huge investments support poorly designed IT and power consumption systems that ignore obvious alternatives. We observe that consumerism is out of control.

A central thesis of Resilience Project is that specific corrections to information science lead to a simplification of products and services in technology sectors. The simplification leads to open source software that is many times more useful than the current costly software systems. The simplification leads to community-based use of computer science as a means to bring balance where imbalance, greed and self-interests now reign.

As a counter movement we see strength to be gained by removing ownership from the best part of computer science, and making public knowledge about how this best part functions. We advance moral and legal justifications for a proposal to make all information science public property. The argument is based on an incorrect notion of justice that supports war over reconciliation and waste over collaboration.

The AI mythology

How can an advanced intellectual position be communicated to everyone? We can start with something that is a simple assertion. The assertion is that the notion of “artificial intelligence” is a myth that serves to confuse almost everyone.

The AI myth has been the leading edge of computer science for over three decades. How can everyday people understand the issues, say as raised by Sir Roger Penrose [7] in this 1987 book, “The Emperor’s New Mind”. Sir Roger uses classical logics and mathematical sciences to argue that AI is like the Emperor in the fable “The Emperor’s New Cloths”. We characterize the situation in a much harsher way by suggesting that the academic discipline called “artificial intelligence” is not an objective and principled science. In every sense AI is a prostitution of the academic environment and the principles of natural science. The evidence is available merely by asking the average AI profession about the biological roots to their profession. In almost all cases, one will hear a lecture regarding man not studying how birds fly in the design of airplanes.

AI is the product of the information technology business sector working in concert with the military industrial complex. The purpose of AI programs is to support the profitability of the military industrial complex. This purpose has seen great success.

Today, the IT consulting industry and related industries, many of them components of the military industrial complex, own the ability to interact with the U.S. federal government. Since the year 2000, this ownership over IT procurement has become a legal monopoly. The evidence that industry intended to develop a body of law inhibiting alternatives to AI is also available. The IT monopoly now serves a non-sustainable cultural reality and quickly punishes any individual who attempts to expose the mechanisms now written into federal law.

This is about the change.

Ownership by the business sector over IT procurement has been made a matter of law due, in part, to the recent expenditure of 338 billions of dollars on the single federal program called “e-Gov”. As such the entire expenditure is perhaps one of the largest instances, in all of our history, of fraudulent waste of American taxpayer’s dollars. Additional expenditures at DARPA, NSF, CIA, NIST and others have clear value in the context of fighting wars, but less than clear value in terms of social values other than those directly related to war fighting. Social value related to the health and well being of everyday citizens has suffered, as we continue to see in the responses to natural disaster.

Our fraud claim over simplifies the circumstances. However, we make the point that a deception of massive proportion has occurred and this deception has consequences to the nature of information science and information technology. Note that if information science was working for the intelligence community that we would not have gone to war in Iraq. [8]

It is easy to note that the U.S. federal government, the military industrial complex and the entertainment complex resonate as a single coherence. We claim that this coherence attempts to block out dissent through economic motivation and in structuring the public debate. The causes of mistaken assertions are complex and rooted in historical processes. Many are related to the pursuit of warfare and some are related simply to the intended control over information exchanges sought by information technology consulting corporations and subsidiary business processes. The secrecy in both cases has created a situation where no official oversight, with the People’s interests in mind, is occurring over government procurement. This is about the change.

Then came the Congressional elections of 2006. The elections are evidence to some of us that the American People seek a better life, a more complete, balanced and engaged humanity in a far more transparent, respected and trusted world. The mistakes of the past seem to make our intentions crystal clear. People are hopeful.

There are well-defined alternatives. However, the major alternatives to artificial intelligence still face an entrenchment of powers. These powers are those that pursue a non-sustainable consumption of the Earth’s resources. The same powers lead us into wars of our own choosing. It is important to not minimize the dangers of terrorism, but a great deal of our problems with others does seem to be related to imbalances created in commodity use and our own national arrogance. The greater social problems, often stemming from historical conflicts between ideologies would be far easier to address if we have the national resources to provide our children with knowledge of these historical conflicts.

We fight a war without understanding the consequences. Why? One answer is that our political and economic system is oriented towards war fighting. We consume natural resources without comprehension of the consequences. Why? One answer is that our political and economic system is oriented towards consumerism. To wake up one morning and understand this is to damage one’s profession, one’s ability to have a home and one’s family life. This was my experience and the experience of others that I know.

This is about to change.

At first glance, the means to communicate has been the written and spoken language, up until radio and television and now the Internet. However, over thousands of years of history, there has also been a class of formal languages based initially in arithmetic, algebra and geometry. Mathematics has been the formal language of economics and of many, but not all, of the natural sciences. A history of formal systems will not be developed in this white paper. [9] However, we point out that the promise of classical mathematics was to develop a precise explanation of every physical process using the language of quantification and the methods of science related to observation and validation. It must be said that during the last century this promise was to run up against a number of profound issues, including those developed in the scholarly work in logic by Kurt Godel [10] and the work in category theory by Robert Rosen. [11]

These profound issues are now resolvable as part of a new information science based on natural swcience.

Consequences of a US federal project

If this White Paper comes into the public light, the first major battle will be over the rights of the IT sector to continue to control the ownership of federal procurement processes. Our strategy is to avoid the battle by developing a functional alternative information infrastructure that is simpler, more powerful, using existing hardware and infrastructure, and unencumbered by ownership.

We seek an Act of Congress to fund the Resilience Project so that this alternative information infrastructure may be provided quickly. More importantly, we are calling on professors and scholars to review the spectrum of software patents and to create as public property data structures, operating systems and algorithms within a common collaborative system. The system is called the “Knowledge Sharing Core”. [12] The Knowledge Sharing Core is only now an empty vehicle, but could be the means to free the public commons of third party ownership over the mechanisms supporting modern public discourse.

The path of direct confrontation is not useful. The current information systems fully justify themselves to themselves and confrontation only places us into the category of “enemy”. In these times of wars and rumors of wars, this is not a good category to be in. However, let no one misunderstand the depth of violation of our sense of right and wrong by a hidden industry that extracts for its own benefit great wealth under these new procurement arrangements. The word “graft” seems entirely appropriate. However, and again; the path of confrontation is not constructive as confrontation simply feeds into this system.

A simple claim is made. We claim that because of hidden natures, the current computer technology is far more complicated than necessary. We are able to easily prove that computer technology could be more powerful and more useful if a far simpler use of computing were made. As a direct and immediate implication of our work, simplicity and non-proprietary go together.

Given congressional assistance, we predict that the IT sector will undergo a rapid transformation, a downsizing that will displace over a million employees. A two trillion dollar per year sector will vanish and be replaced with new sectors focused on green energy production and related opportunities. These are big concerns for the founding process, and will be an issue of considerable public debate. There is good news, however. The employment transition of these individuals is likely to be directly into the green energy economy. Thus a major part of our initial effort is to develop designs and plans that aid IT workers in smart manufacturing and in setting up home solar installations, coupled with wind and elevated water systems. This is existing work and uses many of the skills developed in the IT sector.

Major programs will be defined for universities and colleges to participate in; deconstructing and eliminating powerful IT schools and departments, and replacing these with departments of knowledge science. [13]

Colleges and universities in the U.S. make huge expenditures on IT software and consulting services. An internationally recognized standard on the use of web ontology and web services will be developed so that an estimated 550 million dollars per year in external IT consulting can be eliminated from college budgets. [14] Overall expenditures on IT consulting, not including hardware and software products, could be as high as 300 billions per year in the U.S. alone.

We observe that the current information technology does not allow a level of usability that enables individual control over the personal computing devices we own. We observe very real, and legal, external control over private lives enforced by our media systems. There are; however, many dedicated groups whose shared awareness is leading to the use of information technology in new ways. Wikipedia is perhaps the single most important early sign of deep transformation in how information will be shared.

The Resilience Project is already underway as an implicit part of many initiatives made in all countries around the world. The tipping point has been reached and passed. Individual control over one’s information space is empowering and the importance of this control recognized. This private control is key to making a rapid transformation from the IT sector to the green energy sector.

Personal knowledge editors and knowledge operating systems

Why is a simplification of current information technology important? The answer is simple. The current technology is not designed to be in general useable; it is designed to control the information spaces and to acquire future contracts for services. We are not being purposefully cynical, merely pointing out obvious facts. These facts have been hidden only due to a kind of mass blindness. Like our addictions to gambling and smoking tobacco, we have been lead into unusual situations by the economics of greed. We see state sponsored gambling as a way to support a public education system. How interesting?

The keys to the next wave of computer technology are personal knowledge editors and knowledge operating systems. These systems will be communicated by wireless devices, be small in storage and processing requirements, and will be separable from large software systems. Very useful computing systems will be “off the grid”. Each individual system will have an internal monitoring mechanism that will measure who and how it is used. [15] Legal sanctions for using someone else’s personal knowledge system will be defined in ways consistent with the U.S. Constitution. Privacy rights will be enforced through the use of measured instrumentation. See the footnotes for a description of this instrumentation technology.

The decentralization of green energy production and the development of sustainability as an operational principle will be aided by personal knowledge editors and knowledge operating systems. The reality of this cultural transformation seems inescapable. The near term reality of the knowledge operating system also seems solid to those on the founding committee. For additional description see the 2003 proposal submission from Ontologystream Inc to DARPA. [16]

What usability “means” will shift as more individuals learn how to develop digital knowledge representations. Standards have evolved that, when presented as college and school curriculum, will help individuals use these new tools. Representational standards include the topic map standard and the web ontology standards. Additional standards will soon be revealed. Again, the primary problem is in the poor state of computer science, and the cloud that software ownership has placed over academic work. Digital knowledge representations have a confused academic past, with positives and negatives inherited from the research communities in artificial intelligence and semantic web representations. So before the new standards can be expressed and used, we have to clear the air in the academic environments. [17]

No one underestimates the challenges in this undertaking.

The Resilience Project is forward looking. We seek to establish a refinement of economic processes based on an advanced usage of digital information. We provide evidence that a simplified and yet more powerful human communication infrastructure is possible. The objects that are to populate this new space will include specific ontological models over small production systems, systems that reduce the cost to maintain a good living and knowledge objects developed by single individuals to understand her or his self better. The Resilience Project seeks to establish public transparency and governance for this infrastructure.

At the center of our concern is the right of privacy and we offer provable technology that ensures that when these rights are violated, that law enforcement will have the evidence it needs to take corrective action. Within this context, global management of commodity flow can be established, the measurement of which will create the basis for an international cap and trade regime on carbon emitters and consumers. [18]

A primary challenge is related to making available technical information about how to develop sustainable communities. This information should be in the form of curriculum supporting life long learning and standards for the use of digital technology. Additionally, direct exchange of complex information is needed within the context of creating and managing sustainable communities.

It is possible to build a free computer technology that is based on optimal principles. These principles reflect spiritual and moral concerns, related to the need to know ourselves and to use this understanding proactively to bring harmony and balance to the cultural and physical worlds.

The Resilience Project founding process identified existing elements of several simplified infrastructures, and has defined curriculum around principles defining optimal use of computers and computer systems. The context is a de-centralized social system where a significant portion of the population develop small independent green energy production facilities and use the Internet to reduce the need for travel by car. Paradoxically, perhaps, the de-centralization creates increased dependency on precise knowledge of things at a distance. Commodity exchanges will be one area where complete transparency will aid in reducing waste in commodity production and distribution.

Models of resilience should be easy to find and to study, allowing individuals a greater degree of choice.

The individual and sense making

The “sense making ability” may be seen as an ability of rugged individualism, a person living within oneself, making interpretations about patterns that the natural world presents. Sense making is also applied to living in the many social environments, and in contributing to those environments. In all cases, an interpretative act is involved in taking perception and making sense of perception.

Sense making is part of what being human is all about. The current historical setting places specific challenges on each individual. We have talked about some of the issues in the previous sections. The challenges are for each person both unique and having shared elements.

To meet the challenges, the individual may seek to gain increasing awareness of consequences. Should I move to the country and develop a small farm or can I figure out some way to participate in the green revolution while living in the city? How can I be a positive force while at the same time fulfilling those things that I envision? To gain increasing awareness, socially and economically, the human self might usefully seek to have recourse to a rational model of her or his experiences.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the school curriculum gave us a clearer understanding about how we find personal and private knowledge, and how we as individuals might over a life time come to find clarity in one’s own appreciation of one’s own self?

Our analysis suggests that the individual human person's control over private and public information spaces will be empowered by the provision of perceptual transparency related to the consequences of behavior. Stratification is a new principle that promises to separate the particular instances of an individual’s experience from archetypal knowledge in the form of ontological models.

We do not speak about others’ ability to see what we do; this right of privacy is protected by the Constitution. We speak about an increasing knowledge of self and of the natural world around us.

We argue that social value is revealed when our information systems support individual human investigations by increasing the quality of awareness about ourselves and about the world we live in. A new economic model can be based on individual entrepreneurship, focused on sustainability and high quality of living. This model provides control over individual experience to the individual working within small and perhaps distributed communities.

Simplification of computer interfaces

The Resilience Project suggests that a simplification of computer technology is possible. This simplification arises from a small number of provably optimal algorithms and data encoding structures. A key issue related to ownership of sub-optimal algorithms and data-encoding structures is addressed by identifying optimal algorithms and data-encoding structures as elements of discrete mathematics. This strategy creates public property rather than private property, thus making public the proper foundation for information science. [19] Compensation is paid to human individuals who create new property, of course. However, the issue before us now is in selecting a covering [20] for foundations in a way that empowers a de-facto standard.

Let us pause and consider some general systems theory. We hold, as a matter of objective science, that sustainability depends on knowledge of systems. The principle of transparency is simple. To exist within a sustainable economic system each person must have an understanding of consequences.

To acquire knowledge one must find transparency. To find transparency there must be an open modeling process that depends on action into a complex world and the perception of the consequences of that action. We assert that the science of systems and of action-perception cycles is well established and can be applied methodologically to support individual initiative. We assert that this methodology can be facilitated in non-proprietary algorithms and data encoding processes. We assert that this facilitation can occur rapidly, within six months. See, for example the outline of a worldwide commodity control system designed for U.S. Customs in 2002. [21] Also see a proposed architecture for anticipatory computing made in 2004 to the agency ARDA. [22]

From theory one might suppose that clear knowledge is the single most essential element required for sustainability. For example, if a specific sustainability effort is based on manufacturing and distribution then clear and specific knowledge is required of the input and output flow that connects that system to other systems. Sustainability and localization of production and consumption leads to the types of economic and social systems that are widely discussed in the sustainable communities movement. Paradoxically, localization may lead to increased lines of interactions between physically distinct locations. These issues arise out of opportunities produced by increasing local sustainability and in connecting physically remote locations using the Internet and knowledge based models. [23]

So what is missing? Knowledge of consequences arises naturally, but proprietary interests heavily burden transparency. Creative control can be made to conform to a social order, but the issues of ownership have to be addressed in a reasonable fashion. We often can, as individuals, see what might be done to make things better, to increase social value, but have decreasing actual capability to effect that change. Can we turn the current situation around?

The answer is yes. Given something like the Resilience Project, control over computer processing will shift from the software community to the larger community of everyone. This is not really a big deal, technically. Third party control over the design of computer processes can be minimized over several short years. The most difficult subtask we face is a required shift in job skills for IT professionals. But as mentioned above, there is good news. If the first year budget is as we have requested, a new generation of wireless “knowledge devices” will appear in the marketplace. These devices will have a program that presents measured quantities. Individuals, the generic “human individual”, will be empowered to gain transparency and knowledge about systems and systems of systems. New industries and new serve sectors will arise based on the use of semantic desktops [24] and knowledge operating systems.

A single set of examples is most illustrative. Why cannot any individual human configure sensors and control elements so that one’s own home can be securely viewed over the Internet or wireless cell phone? Why cannot any individual develop a control system that allows the viewing and control over a home gardening system? The answers seem obvious.

What follows from the Resilience Project is public transparency into what is possible and what has been actualized by sustainability innovations. At the core of our objectives; economically and culturally, a social movement may soon well specify capitalization processes of a new type. The entrepreneurial work will develop sustainable manufacturing systems connected by a knowledge system. Such a future would be bright indeed!

Why usability matters in software products

Think of it in this way. A computer system is like a machine with energy inputs and outputs. If third party software designers take some of the energy outputs as a charge on the system, there is less energy output available for use in creating sustainable work directed by the user of the software. If the user of the software constantly must attend to software maintenance issues such as firewall security, passwords and spam; there is less energy that can be applied by the user, and taken by the user to sustain his or her intentionality. If the user is constantly having his or her attention re-directed by advertising then the intentionality of the user is tapped. Again, there is less energy available to the purpose of the user.

Before we go into examples of users creating sustainable processes we would like to review some scholarship on the nature of human awareness. We mean to review the psychological dimension to intentionality and spirituality. We mean to open access to literatures or to lines of social discussion that have been peripheral to entrepreneurial computer science. We mean to access knowledge of the social world, as well as to increase an ability to reach out and find others with like minds. The “purpose” of sustainability entrepreneurship will be defined by principles discovered within this review.

The goals of the Resilience Project are to be achieved using competitive strategies consistent with market forces, but using a public trust to own this foundation. The nature of the public trust is still to be determined.

Perhaps the reader will have some thoughts about this and make some contributions to our web log. [25]

The benefits from public trust ownership over computer sciences include a lowering of the overall cost of information infrastructure, world wide, as well as in allowing new and profound capabilities such as mediated by collective intelligence. Even in the case of an individual, the knowledge sharing core design capabilities promise means to evolve context landscapes. Such viewable structures measure and provide control influence over complex environments.

An example of a context landscape might be an information structure that indicates the growth potential from a vineyard. [26]

Social issues and groupthink

We believe that formal theorems establish a foundation for demonstrating optimality and that optimality in itself deserves to be revealed as public property, available to all. We argue that a small set of optimal algorithms and data encoding processes will soon form a foundation for all computer technology.

The arguments we make are similar to arguments that one hears in the various “end of natural science” [27] arguments. Our argument is that computer science, unlike natural reality, has a lowest level of organization, the bits that are either in an up state or a down state. A computer science is defined as a specific realization of an abstract construction called finite state machines. [28] Finite state machines have a specific structure that is optimized to do “what it does”. We argue that a system of computer science optimizes functions that are designed into that system of computer science even if the design features are not known explicitly.

We argue that there are in fact many possible computer sciences. The existing computer science systems are evolving under a design constraint collectively imposed by those who build these systems. Other “systems of computer science” are possible, CoreTalk [29] being one of these. In any of these systems, or possible systems, Groupthink, social expression and collective intelligence is the system “designer”. It takes some time but it seems clear after a while. The designer may be a collective intelligence, such as the community of all software programmers. The Resilience Project would shift the origin of design from programmer specialists to the everyday use of learning devices.

We have developed a language to talk about distinctions between computer sciences. “First school” computer science expects the user to accept designed features as products. Information technology is a business sector and will always be a business sector. The “second school” computer science makes available devices that exercise human intentional control by providing transparency on how computers function, and reduces that complicatedness of that computer science. First school is one “group think”. Second school is a very different other “group think”.