Friday, May 21, 2004
National
Knowledge Project
We are looking at the
formation of an
anticipatory web of
information.
On the idea
of moving the BCNGroup Foundation to New Mexico
from Northern
Virginia
.
The notion of a Knowledge Operating System (KOS) is based on principles of a new computer science where data regularity and contextual information are measured and encoded using a very simple data encoding mechanism (the I-RIBs). KOS design is Peer-to-Peer and can be supported by a type of CoreSystem light where small (under 100K) process engines exchange data using data regularity in context. This data regularity is a compression (of data) dictionaries linked with Orb constructions.
The KOS engines will have an interface to Multiple User Domains (MUDs) like the Manor software. The linked KOS engines will enable the creation of an anticipatory web of information that operates in real time and is publicly available to anyone.
The development of the Knowledge Sharing Foundation and the business processes related to investments in Human-centric Information Production technology can be achieved by a new R&D Institute located in Northern New Mexico.
The BCNGroup scientists are making a claim:
The KOS and the
Anticipatory Web of information, developed by individual KOS expressions, are
part of our social future.
To completely understand this claim we face a
challenge related to education:
A social understanding
of the new science, of complexity and of complex natural systems, depends on a
K-12 curriculum that communicates what diverse communities of scientists know
about real time pragmatics.
It seems reasonable to claim that the
behavior of complex social and economic systems is (partially) controlled by
streams of causes – not all of which are obvious. The complete understanding of cause may require more than the
logic of Aristotle, and objective science may need a stratified viewpoint to
help make a fuller description of the causes of complex phenomenon. Abstractions may allow us to make some sense
of the past and the future in the context of a present moment, and to see how
the present is situated.
The pragmatic axis of the ontologystream
exists on the margins, since initial conditions established by past and
anticipatory causes are also involved in creating immediate futures. The concept of an anticipatory web (of
information) is used to describe a process that has been established
by human communication and which is transforming a communication medium for
commerce. The communication medium
provides real time thematic description about the social discourse, and thus is
the basis for business decisions regarding new product development and
marketing.
We hold that, as a systemic principle, the
power of this new communication medium is optimal if individual corporations
use a branding philosophy that seeks to communicate truth and thus reduces the
use of deception in advertising. The
anticipatory web and the ontologystream creates a medium where individual
consumers can easily control the advertising that is pushed to them, by pulling
to their KOS the truthful information about what they as individuals are
seeking.
Business to Business and Business to Customer
processes can be optimized based on a truth in branding and a reduction in
predatory advertising. For example, the
cost of pharmaceuticals is encumbered with advertising expenditures and the
reduction of these expenditures through the use of the ontologystream and
branding philosophy will reduce drug costs and increase social value. The phenomenon of predatory advertising is
perhaps best illustrated by the impact that smoking cigarettes in the
television media, during the 1940s and 1950s, had on the growth of the tobacco
industry.
Drug companies may be involved in using a
similar predatory behavior in marketing sexual enhancement drugs.
The most profound predatory advertising
behavior may be illustrated by the marketing of software.
As the Charter of the BCNGroup becomes actualized
the Founders will work to clarify the confusion caused by software
patents. This responsibility
is concentrated into the hands of the BCNGroup Science Council,
as discussed within the BCNGroup Charter.
The Charter was developed (1992 – 1997) in order to allow academic scholarship to have a controlling influence over certain categories of patents, and to in this way tenure the BCNGroup as a future “privately held” science foundation.
The founders predict that the “Safe Net” will be created out of the National need to develop resilient, sustainable and highly educated rural communities. The rural communities know and feel the need to return to an agrarian foundation where local control by country governance is directly participated in by a learned and economically secure rural community.
President
Bush's political platform is consistent with this vision, as manifest in
several ways – for example his focus on the community college. Kerry, if
elected, can be expected to move rural re-development forward as part of his
new National agenda.
Now that this context is established; I would like to talk about a plan to establish Taos New Mexico as the physical center of the Virtual Museum System.
The founders have had a position within the art community in Taos for four decades, and may be able to capitalize on this history.