Questionary on NZZ.CH

And just one day after the election in the usa I happen to come across another wonderful survey. Since the nzz is a popular newspaper in switzerland, I suggest that the poll sheads some light onto how mr. obama is received in the country of heidi.
It would seem that we have a rather positive attitude against 'that one', since more than half of the people think that he would create a better place in the world today. Only one fifth of the lot have the position that the usa will go south because of him. If only our own elections would go that way, then I think the image of switzerland would not be tainted with fuss over the campaigns of one party.

Obama wird Präsident, und jetzt...
61% Neustart: Obama wird die USA und die Welt positiv verändern.
19% «Business as usual»: Es geht weiter wie bisher.
15% Abstieg: Die USA verlieren ihre Rolle als Weltmacht ohnehin.
6% Isolationismus: Amerika wird sich nur noch um sich selbst kümmern

Using Ink-Jet Printer To Produce Human Organs

Japanese scientist Makoto Nakamura is on a mission to see if the technology of a simple inkjet printer found in homes and offices, can also produce human organs. The idea is for the printer to jet out thousands of cells per second -- rather than ink droplets -- and to build them up into a three-dimensional organ. Much like a printer chooses different colors, the machine can position different types of cells to drop. Nakamura has succeeded in building a tube with living cells with a 3D inkjet bioprinter. It measures one millimeter in diameter and has double walls with two different kinds of cells, similar to the three-layer structure in human blood vessels.

There are really all kind of things,  but instead of shaking our heads I propose to rejoice because we might soon be enabled to create artifical organs what would bring us yet another step further to immortality. And some of the current problems with organ trade could diminish. We would not need feed on the organs of poor donors anymore nor would they only receive scrapped organs themselves.

Chapter I: Part II

Last week we could observe how the stock market went on a dive. Our hard earned spare money suddenly lost its value. Money just gains worth or becomes a worthless bunch of paper and metal without our acting.

While the investors are trembling, let’s give some thought to one of the dominating aspects of our life: Cash!

While some weird people are trying to get a job which gives them a rewarded life or where they can realize their dreams. On the other hand there are the workers who work mostly to earn their money to meet the daily expenses. Of course there are still other variants like doing nothing productive during work times or one could combine earning loads of money with a job one likes. But generally spoken we do something and get a reward for the invested time. The conclusion “Time is money.” is really not far fetched.

The question at hand is as follows: Why are the majority of the people willing to sacrifice a greater part of their limited lifetime just to gain something as banal as a bunch of printed papers; not even aesthetic printed ones? – I mean, as long as I touch money I try not to imagine through whose fingers and whatsoever it already went through. – Of course I’m now going to explain why we all are just a bunch of idiots…

The very first instinct we have, and on who all the other instincts are based is simply:

”Live!”

And yes, this is an imperative. Well, what do we do to survive? We eat and we sleep. If our surviving is granted we either search a diversion or we try to make sure that we’re going to survive tomorrow.
So we begin to plan how and, more importantly, what we are going to eat tomorrow. This is where things got complicated. An uncountable amount factors like weather, land, population, vegetation had to be considered. And what did our smart ancestors do? They thought that things would get easier if one could sum up all these factors to a number. Now were able to compare the value of a hen and an egg (by the way, the hen was earlier).

So the idea behind money’s just to make life simpler by being able to compare the factor about how much a certain object makes our life simpler. Well, the smart(m)asses now came to the conclusion that more money equals more life. That’s why they begun to search ways to get more money than others.
So they traded an object with more money that the object was worth. And someone bought that object only because he saw that he could sell it for even more. Sadly enough that destroyed the fragile equilibrium.

Our society of “traders” is based on a project to make life simpler. Like every solution to a problem there are drawbacks, and for my person I’d say that we should really begin to search for an alternative solution.
In this day and age where mother earth seems to be on a grave diet I would like to quote a roman, almost: “Ceterum censeo pecunia delendam esse.” / “Furthermore, it is my opinion that the money must be destroyed.”

As in every war there are going to be many battles, and the first one is already fought behind the scenes (even if not directly caused by my initiative, but history is in fact not linear, history is transcendental).

As the different cultures are coming together, caused by mentioned diet, forcing us to change our money all the time, it gets really impractical. Since this contradicts the very purpose of money, one begins to magically find a solution. Here we get credit cards, banks, digital banks and much more.
People using plastic money experience, that it is better to carry a card in place of a bunch some coins, even more if it can’t get stolen that easily.
Now we are witnesses of the abstraction of money. It is a consequent step in the development of money; the physical part of defining a value gets stripped away and a plain number is all that rests. But what seems to be an advancement could easily turn out as the first step leading to the end.

Since now the abstracted variable could loose the direct connection to reality. Maybe in a time where this variable cannot reasonably be connected with reality anymore, the slaves are going to probe an rebellion and I’ll pray for their victory.

But it’s far to early to party, for that to happen we have to speed up the development by finding new and easier ways to use virtual money and then we have to corrupt the system until we don’t have an middle-class anymore. As soon as the elite looses the support of the middle-class, they aren’t going to be able to maintain their system.

Another imaginable development could be when humans are able to fully use the facts Einstein’s well-known equation.
E=mc²
Because then one’s going to reform the equation to “Energy = money²”. Since one is able to create “anything” out of nothing but energy.
Money would not be of much use in that future time. A glass of milk is worth 1400kJ.
The last resort of money would only be there, where we can not convert energy in matter. But luckily just the things we cannot buy nowadays aren’t going to be craftable in the future. An example would be time. Even with an infinite amount of energy a person is not going to become immortal. And I do not mean restricted forms of immortality, I mean when a person in spite of every possible event is not going to fade. It would lead to far to go into the details of cloning in this article, since my fingers are beginning to get tired.

Well then, let’s hurry to a conclusion!
In the end it just means that we cannot define every experience and objects with a constant value. We have to face this fact. We are just incapable of judging our surroundings accordingly. Having money does not mean that we lived. Since money does not make life easier nor is it able to judge the life I proclaim:

Ceterum censeo pecunia delendam esse.

Chapter I: Intermezzo 1

If each step is just bringing us closer towards ruin, why do we always have to hurry?

Chapter I: Part I

It is winter. Still, when I look out of my window, I can't see what I would like to be able to see: snow.

It's an unfariness of an enormous extent, don't you think? Well, it seems to be the price for progress, expressed in the climatic change, so we'll have to pay it. Still, I would like to know why there have been so many ice ages (I counted 2 the last time I was in a dvd-shop) and why there is no sequel in sight. I mean, just imagine onehundred, twohundred meters of snow covering the whole landscape, slowly moving. Would we live in caves, craved in ice? Would we have dynamic frontieres, moving with the ice? Could we see our cities, as they sleep in their frozen tombs?

Anyway, back to the present world. Climate scientists are telling us that the global temperature is rising, some are even auguring that the gulf stream is going to run dry. And this would make the temperature drop in Europe. And while climate scientists are drawing and simulating possible scenarios, the protectors of our beloved and precious nature, the biologists are whining because our precious fauna and flora is not going to be able to adapt itself fast enough. They are researching the animals and plants a lifetime and do not even trust them in something as simple as that. I mean, if they don't survive some degrees, how are they going to survive genetic manipulation? How are they going to prove that they are stronger than some plants and animals made by humankind.
Probably not even the wind knows the answer.

And I dare to say, that the climatic changements won't be the changes which are going to affect us the most in the years to come. The first point, although is strongly linked with nature: Energy.

As we all should know does the earth not provide unlimited energy, but has a very limited pool. And we are dangerously close to the edge. I'm not talking about food, there are just now peaple starving to death, and I do also not talk about wood, even if the forests are raided.
I speak of the energy which has made this age of consumation possible. It is oil, and also electricity to which I refer.

Sure, we are going to be able to draw oil out of the soil for another 20, maybe 30 years, but for which price? I took a look outside, and what I saw was not snow, but it was a row of houses, every single one heated with this rare ressource. I would probably not complain about the missing snow, if I would not sit in a heated room. Even if my room is not heated with oil, but it is heated with my lil'ol' computer. And my room is warmer than every other room in our house.
Electricity. I would not sit all night before this 4:3 screen, if the electricity would not be cheaper at night. It is something one has to imagine: Because we need so much energy during the day just for cooking and living and stuff, we have to produce an surplus of energy, and in the night it is wasted. At least it is good for me, so I won't dare to complain, will I?
How is electricity produced? Mainly with nuclear fission, and when really needed with everything else, wind, water, fire, light. But this nuclear fission provides some nagging problems. Just take the most prominent and also a bit overrated example of Tschernobyl (written alt least almost like that). Some people have been careless, and the whole thing went BOOM, and it gave a big mess with nuclear pollution and after cleaning up, one had an impressive cenotaph for the dangers this sort of winning energy brings with us. I think, we should always bare in mind that accidents can and happen and are going to happen, just as Murphys law tells us. Yet another problem is where we can dispose of the radioactive waste. It would not be very healthy if we'd bury them in our backyard.

Yeah, I've only talked about energy, and we find more problems than I'm able to list here. Now one may ask the question what should be done in these matters.
This question is not easy to be answered, I'll admit as much as that. But I can say, what's not an answer:
We cannot go back to an time where humanity did not depend on this ressources. This may be an interesting option, but it does not solve the problem, it runs away from it. And given the fact that time seems to repeat itself, probably the people are going to develop again artifical objects to help them survive, and this evolution is going to end in the same situation like today, the nature's going to be raped again, and there we are.

We have to be like a team of footballers (soccer), who cannot admit the defeat after a 10 to zero and is still playing with everything it's got, until the arbiter says that the game is lost. It will probably not change the result, but afterwards one is going to blame the weather or the fans, or even the arbiter himself, but maybe it's worth a shot.

If to go back is not the solution, we can do nothing but to run forward. The proverb 'Attack is the best defense' does not exist without reason. Even if we fail it is better to fail tomorrow, than to fail today.

And if we fail, it is very probable that we failed, because we have not been, what we the footballers really should be: A team. But let me speak another time of the imaginary fissures we humans are drawing all around the world, and lets wander back to the question in question.

If we really search an answer for our question, we will maybe even ask an physicist, what he thinks. But he is either going into technical details about some quarks and other sparkles and we would comprehend nothing, or he would take position for an project he is involved in.
The project wont really solve the problem, but what may have the potential to solve it, is the incredible amount of projects which exist in the world. Everybody may have a dream he wants to realize and if enough people dream of solving this matter, someday a solution may be found.
We have to do but one thing: We have to prepare the soil, from which the plant may spread. We have to support our children, and we have to make them able to dream dreams we would not even dream of dreaming. Then we will have to form them strong enough to be able to conserve their faces when they are thrown out of the nest. And we have to prepare the tools they are going to use, to seed, to grow and to harvest.


And if we have found a slolution to this problem, we may furthermore adress some of the other big challenges left: Money, Digitalisation, Union, Expansion.
One thing is sure: humankind is going to be forced to find away in this primeval forest.

I communicate, therefore we are. Stay tuned!

Proverbum: "Hello World!"

Anyone who made an attempt on programming knows that the very first lignes of code you write are going to generate these two words on the screen. I figured that's a good title for my first blog entry as well.

I like this title mainly because with the "World" I adress every user of the internet who's been able to find this page in the vastness of the space that's surrounding us. Hopefully someday the "world" is going to adress every single human being, but I fear that this site is not going to live as long as that

With "Hello" I wish a good day to the reader since it is an greeting which is surely understood by almost every potential reader. That is also the reason why I use this tongue, and you may be so kind to overlook a good deal of the errors I make. If you should come into an situation you cannot identify yourself with an occurance in my post feel free to use the [Postulate] button.
I will take my time to verify and reply to your posting.

But for every action here I have to plead to you that you do not lose confidence nor patience since I cannot always find the time to check upon this blog.

However, it is now all said upon your welcome, enjoy and rejoy.