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About WCCN During The 21st Century(2007 - ) |
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Soon! Very soon, as trite as
it may seem, with unquestionable accuracy it will be able to say that: “Every
human in the civilized world will have a communications link capable of
connecting to every other civilized person, and to the entire base of
knowledge, artistry, and cultures accumulated over the eons”. This erection of
human-to-human and human-to-database electronic umbilical cords is a
technology-induced reality that cannot avoid paving they way for making
dramatic changes – way beyond the changes made to date -- in individual and
collective behavior, and therefore dramatically reshape the cultures that
define the very make-up of the world’s civilization. No doubt that many de facto
changes ascribed to technology appear to be merely surface behavioral
changes, but they are evolving underlying deep-rooted cultural changes.
Changes that are most likely to be shaped by a relatively small, but diverse,
cadre of persons who have definitive beliefs as to how civilization should be
re-engineered, and who have mastered how to apply the dislocations and
turmoil attendant with the salubrious “destruction of old methods and
practices” by the welcomed innovation of technology. Changes visible on surface
include persons walking around with earpieces blaring music into their ears
from a MP3 Player, while a hand held provides quality-questionable
information–on-demand, and makes the person reachable (and trackable) by
anyone on a 24 x 7 basis. And of course, the automation machinery that
readily reacts to a person’s command, and/or prevents the person from taking
a given action. Under the electronic covers,
the potential propaganda of the packets of information spectrum-fed to the
person, the ever-inclusive surveillance mechanisms that leave no place to
hide, the denial of services when an inanimate software package controls
access or allow-ability, the seductive nature of letting automation take care
of one’s routine daily activities, all have the potential to sway individual
behavior to accept the “productive”
lifestyle gains on terms that have all the appearance of being fair and
equitable. And, theoretically, there is
no reason for it to be otherwise. But! But, just as technology has
changed--for the better--how business is conducted, it takes a very small leap
in thought to suspect that the fallout of technology-induced change will
change individual cultures of the world in ways that would most likely lead
to a worldwide mono-culture. If we assume as a given that
we are evolving to a mono-culture, the issue is how and who will shape what
is created. And of course, whether the result would be good or bad, and just
how will good or bad be determined? Will the software engineers
and their entrepreneurial bosses create an Aldus Huxley kind of Brave New
World? Or will a budding Stalin or Hitler seize technology’s power for
power’s sake? Or will an extremist high priest manipulate technology in order
to impose God’s will as perceived by the high priest? Or will the least
probable happen. Namely that a culture evolves that delivers peace,
tranquility, and reasonable freedom to every human endowed with an electronic
umbilical cord? It is WCCN’s belief that the
very same technology that could enable worldwide enslavement could also be
used to develop a failsafe mechanism to prevent this from happening. And that
will be the focus to which WCCN is now and will be centered. We have no illusion that we
can construct such a mechanism. But we believe we can put a foundation block
or two into place, and that our clients will do the heavy construction. Clients composed of leading
edge business leaders, social engineers, politicians, and religious
leaders. |
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