Creating a
Model That Would Be Useful for Designing of the World's
Future.
Today, the future of
most of the people, and indeed the future of the whole world, is decided
by only a few, who, in most cases, do not even represent anybody else, but
themselves and their groups. Thus no matter what most people's wishes that
would regard their future might be, those wishes are doomed to
non-realization for a lack of representation and consideration by those
who actually do influence the course of future events. This
unsatisfactory state of affairs could be remedied by creating a model of
an ideal Earth, accessible and inputtable by virtually anyone who could use a computer,
in which all the various ideas and wishes that the people participating in
contributing to maintaining of such a model might have about their futures
would be synchronized with all the knowledge that we have about the Earth
and of social processes. This model would be continuously and dynamically
being created by people at the "grass root" level, and thus would actually
represent the combined and synchronized wished for futures of all of the
participants, rather than what a possible haphazard design of what only a
few might want would be. Most disputes and problems that occur
in this world today are solved (if they ever do get solved at all)
unsatisfactorily, because in most cases the parties involved have
different ideas about what their mutual coexistence in the future should
be, and have very limited chances for resolving differences
constructively, because, in most cases, the negotiating process is
conducted by power entities who might not really wish for a satisfactory
outcome that could even be contrary to their partisan interests. Sadly
enough, that a war is good for business still holds true, - big business
benefits by wars, people who are busy with fighting each other are easier
to exploit. Therefore it is easy to reason that big business that drives
our present day globally dominant culture is not really interested in
making peace; the suspicion could be held easily that the opposite is
true. The model,
continuously worked and improved upon by all those involved in disputes
would be helpful in solving those disputes. Naturally enough, not two
opinions of what would be optimal for everybody would probably be
identical ever, but the model would serve for the purpose of deciding what
the most likely outcome of particular actions would be, and why some ideas
for improvements should be better than some other ideas. Naturally enough, experts from all fields of human enterprise
and any non-generalists, non-specialists should be able to contribute
their ideas to the model, and because this planet is such a complex
gestalt, the model should be inputted by as many diversely minded
people as possible. This model, in essence, would function as an always in
session, permanently held "round table" for all those who are concerned
about the welfare of the world. The main advantage of this model, in
comparison to existing ways of settling inter-group disputes, would be its
accessibility by anyone, not only by representatives of factions currently
in power, without the exclusion of any minorities. This model could become
a universal learning and teaching tool from which people could get
informed about what issues might be connected with their respective
desires, and suggest ways of how to get closer to theirs ideals without
inconveniencing any neighbors. At first it might seem that an
existence and maintenance of such a model would be a colossal undertaking
that would require a huge institute with the latest model supercomputer
and a staff the size of an army, but with today's state of technology this
would not be necessary at all. The model could be started with only a
handful of people who would link up their computers to enhance the
computers power (in effect thus creating a "supercomputer" - existing
systems are already there, using Linux OS that makes this possible), and
then, gradually, with more people (generalists and specialists alike)
joining the project and sharing their data bases (Shared
File System), the whole Earth population would be
eventually represented in the model. The coordination of the different
fields of expertise and knowledge could be done by ad hoc committees that
could be overseen by input from the ongoing discussions. Many basic
functions of the model could be done automatically by customized programs
that would develop with time.
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