Charlie Rose

JohnGelles  07/17/2011 07:10 PM Report

"...the latest from Silicon Valley: Charlie Rose (our hero); John Chambers (Cisco Systems), Stratton Sclavos (Verisign, a provider of network support processes and structures for whole segments of the digital communications industry--see Wikipedia for very technical detail), Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems), John Hennessy (Stanford University.

THIS SHOW offers the most content dense information you are likely to watch on Charlie Rose. It is delivered at the speed of light. If you are only an amateur IT observer, you will have to watch it more than a dozen times -- and then watch it again.

It includes the purpose of IT -- to allow as many people as possible to know as much as possible about all they need to know to make living and to live in peace between our necessary wars.

..... And to know the same --during the wars -- to be sure the side defending human political and economic rights and the golden rule and animal rights wins. (If you are not vegetarian, please drop dead before you watch this show.)

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It includes the convergence of data, voice and video information for business, government, education, health, entertainment and for no reason at all. It includes profits, costs, pricing, property rights, morality, real effects, imagined effects, history, current events and the next new thing. It includes what follows the next new thing.

If you are Nathan Myhrvold you will follow it with ease. If you are me, you will insist that each idea be illustrated with an animated film as good as the best you've ever seen. Many sentences have three or more ideas.

One anecdote reports that in one Arab Kingdom children (including girls) learn math and science from the earliest they can via animated games and in the Arabic language as they slowly master it. We, on the other hand, teach them to buy products they don't need at a price they can't afford. Instead of learning match and science, they learn crime and punishment -- taught in such a way that which comes first does not matter.

All is not hopeless however. I did come away with a cure for all our ills:

..... It's time to develop systems based on nations and worlds as a whole. The need to account for every input to assign a cost for every output has past. We should educate everyone for free and pay all of us the same -- more or less as they do in an army with minimum pay-grade layers.

..... For the most productive ten percent, exceptions are made by trial and error schemes.

..... As it becomes possible, work is all done by robots. People are encouraged to win a good conduct medal every day.

..... Trouble makers are encouraged to live alone in small ocean going pods a good distance from anyone who wants no company.

..... A few trouble makers are sentenced to this fate for one month at a time.

..... Capital crimes receive capital punishment under due process of law that gets demonstrably more fair with every case.