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The control issue in
general terms
The problem we see is
similar to how others have represented a specific problem.
Core demand side innovators may not control the lives and destiny of
all people everywhere, and yet they very often act as if they have this
expectation. This is just bad behavior, evolving out of this
misplaced form of capitalism we are enduring. The notion that
some, in fact a very few, should have control over others is just
contrary to our notion of national democracy. We see the same
type of behavior in the December 9, 2008 congressional testimony of the
former CEOs of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac. These CEOs claim no
responsibility for not seeing that housing was being artificially over
priced due to a number of market forces. Government oversight
failed to protect the public interest, and the consequences are
profound. The reasoning of a twelve year old would conclude that
the cost of building and acquiring land was far less than the prices
that the market was paying for completed houses. The concept of
waste and fraud clearly was and is involved.
Business CEO, like venture capitalists, are like a school of fish, and
as the CEOs in this
testimony remark; this is how being a CEO works. However, what
should have been obvious issues of public trust were compromised in the
pursuit of personal compensation. This was and is the golden rule
of business.
The innovator has been subjugated to the behavior imposed on the
category of all innovators. This behavior looks for short term
results, consistent performance, simple language that a third grader
would easily understand. The result has been the absolute
blockage of all innovations that are defined in a new paradigm, and the
de
facto rejection that there could be a paradigm that is not exactly the
same as the current paradigm. Any paradigm or application area
that
might seem to threaten any existing status quo must be avoided.
A new era is rapidly approaching, an era where the control over
innovation and capital may not be used to limit the Constitutionally
protected rights of individual. These Constitutional rights
should be sufficient to protect us from institutional fraud and
predatory practice. We have not be so protected, particularly
over the past eight years. To return to democratic principles,
innovators and investors have to learn, or be made to conform, to share
just control with consumers.
Each participant must acknowledge the needed contribution of
others and the contribution that our society order has given to that
individual.
Some, in the current environment, understand this
intuitively but do not act accordingly. The change that is needed
is a change in this environment. To return to our democratic
roots, the federal government must step
in and must change the rules by which innovation in information theory
is owned or not owned. Why should anyone assert that government
is here to protect the rights of these entities called
corporations? The government is the People. The
Constitutional rights are rights of People. The assertion that
all process and software patents are reducible to a small set of
mathematical principles may be asserted by the federal government, and
in this way establish a common foundation for new markets. This
will settle the issue of ownership over the medium of
communication.
This control issue has arisen because of the absence of a socially
sound process for national capitalization of innovation. NSF does not
work. NIST re-enforces the mess that is information
technology. The agencies are clueless. Business
messed up and continues to mess up, as we outline in the White Paper *<*>.
The change we seek is a change in who is in control, as is represented
in this PowerPoint *<*>.
This is a message that the transition teams are interested in. Our
effort now is to communicate what might be possible given the type of
stimulation of basic innovation that has in fact been blocked by a form
of monopoly.
There are many concerns that business people, venture capitalists, core
innovators just do not see. They do not see because they refuse
to see. They, as individuals, do
not allow credit to be given to others and in this way perfect the art
of taking ownership over what is not theirs. The legal and
financial system supports this theft. It is this reason alone
that has held us back, and will continue to hold us back. A
larger force than business interest must step in.
The national program being proposed is a program that will overcome
what are personality flaws, by what ever means, including reducing all
software and process IP to pure mathematics and thus to public domain
property, as we have conjecturally done with the G patent.
We intend re-focus my effort on the demand side technology integration
as we have proposed for many years. As discussed in the past, we
have the ability to point to any public information as several specific
examples of sub-stratum language generation. However, the use of
the sub-stratum model as well as other innovations will be integrated
as part of this national project. As we have stated a number of
times, the literature review regarding this notion has a long history
including the work done in classified settings in the former Soviet
Union, an entity that no longer exists. This work maps back to
Peirce and to Mill's as well as Bacon and others.