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To: Tim Murphy <info@cinox.demon.co.uk>
Hi Tim,
Couldn't find anything about "PADS" ont the Web, do you know any URL's on it, or
further keywords for a search?
>To get that going I would suggest an Internet Nerdathon with just that objective. I
call it >"brain cell networking". That is to get a large (even massive) number of people
to
>cooperate/brainstorm a complex project and come up with the result. There are
several
>considerations; time scale, structure and coordination/integration not to mention
>management of the project and refinement of the work. It also generates huge
>quantities of e-mail which has to be sifted and cross referenced. So you need a core
>team of people who know what they are trying to get from all the mental activity. It
>needs guidance and strong nerves.
This sounds excellent. Do you want to help? Personally I would love to down
Microsoft and give back the power to the people. Maybe we could tie it in to Virtual
Glastonbury. CGI Web Mail to your site could be a quick starter.
Franks comment today:-
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Great reaction of Tim Murphy, it is exactly as I would like
to develop this (I mentioned this before to you didn't I?)
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and what he is referring to (2 June 96):-
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If we go ahead, I propose we develop this as public domain software
(under the Perl artisic license or GNU license). Maybe it is good if
more people get involved in this project. We could setup some pages
on the web, with the ideas, scripts, docs examples etc.
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>Such a project turns people on, even if they are only doing a trivial piece of the
>jigsaw according to their ability or availability they see it as their baby and will
>put in days of work and effort just to get their bit right. Of course some people let
>you down or screw up or have a technical hitch but you know that will happen so
you
>build in at least triple redundancy. The more critical the bit of work the more
>redundancy. You also get them to form their own groups as they need to by making
all
>the communications available to all of them except things that will confuse them or
>the core administrative comms between the instigators. 90% of the trick is in the
>planning and specification of the issues. It is like a chemical reaction, get the
>proportions just right and it goes off and cooks itself nicely.
What can I say - you are obviously an expert at this. I would propose you become one
of the instigators. Although an instigator, I am really just a programmer who came up
with the concept. I am very overworked and am actually getting much less
programming done than I should because of the management overhead.
>I love your concept. Go for it! and give Microsoft a nightmare they will never wake
>up from.
I think we can only do this with your style of attack, and possibly help. Otherwise
Microsoft may mount a fast rearguard action once they get wind of it. It would be
fairly easy to replace Windows (and UNIX) with a webneuron OS, if I had the time.
This is the scale we are talking. It may be much too big for just me and Frank. I don't
know about him but I feel under a lot of strain - like a mountain hanging above me. I
can see what is probably going to happen and it is staggering. If Microsoft is downed
then this is of multi-billion pound significance.
Are you also aware that high speed cable modems will shortly be introduced (300
times faster than 28.8K). This will cause an enormous explosion of Internet expansion.
Satellite TV will probably be replaced by Internet TV. Internet will probably replace
all other media. Standard telephones can only have a few years at the most before the
Internet phone takes over. This all point to the telecom companies becoming direct
ISP's.
My prediction is that telecom companies will soon offer 24 hour direct internet
connection without having to dial in. There should be no need to have to make a phone
call to get logged in. The connection should be live all the time and you get charged
per bit transmitted, or just a fixed rental (preferably). If you want to phone someone
you use the Internet phone or maybe have a second line on the old system. Don't you
just hate it having to keep logging in to get your mail and then log out.
Thus there is a telecoms revolution going on too. This relates to webneurons because
the telecom network also has clear similarities to the inputs and outputs of
webneurons. You could maybe use programmable hardware webneurons to switch the
network. It sometimes seems to me that the whole world has similarities to
webneurons. Even your "brain cell networking" is similar.
I have wondered if there is a link to Physics too. I believe webneurons can model any
n-dimensional curved space because they can each have countless links to other
webneurons. It has occured to me that this could be the Unified Field theory that
Einstein was looking for. The concept of webneurons is so simple and yet seems to
cover anything new you apply it to, at whatever scale.
An article in New Scientist some time ago postulated space, at the very small scale of
gravity, being made up of chains of loops. This too seems similar. Chains and loops
can be modelled by webneurons.
On the other hand maybe I've been working too hard.
Look forward to your reply.
Cheers,
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