Quote: you are like a visionary to me. some of us hold a vision..groups all over the world are doing the vision holding. by our beliefs we can create reality.
Most of what I think I'm getting is primarily to do with most of us want to treat each other, and about how we'll start needing to treat each other in order to move to 4D/Aquarian society. I've been reading Lyssa Royal's material lately, and she has a lot to say on that score. The main issue is Lennon's brotherhood of man, or in less sensational terms, human beings simply starting to give a damn about each other outside our immediate family groups. The Internet has probably been the single biggest thing for helping us to start doing that, since it's meant that suddenly not everybody outside your front door is just a nameless stranger any more...but we've still got a way to go. I also don't believe that we can rely on the idea that knowledge of ETs will force us in that direction by default; instead I'm more inclined to believe that it'd be better for us to have already reached it before the ETs get here, if they're coming.
My girlfriend and I watched Contact last night, and it made me think about what you've said about the ET prediction. If any nearby ET groups know that much about our present state, then they'll also hopefully know to stay well away until we've solved a few more of our current problems. I cannot emphasise how utterly catastrophic a First Contact event happening during the current political climate would most likely be, irrespective of which country the ETs landed in. The reason why is because even though the ETs' intentions might be benign, those of most currently existing governments would not be. I believe we're going to need close to another decade before we have a genuinely beneficial international governmental apparatus in place. It won't be a global federalist system in my opinion, and it won't be the UN as we currently know it either. I'm predicting we'll see a looser alliance of more locally operating sovereign governments, with existing institutions such as the International Criminal Court serving an advisory role. In my mind the best case scenario for ICANN, (the closest thing the Internet has to a governing body) would be for it to be declared outside the jurisdiction of any national government, and for at least the transnational Internet links to be given something similar to the existing laws of the sea. That would remove the ambiguity, but it would also preserve the Internet's nationally agnostic state, which I think is important.
I do not believe that the anomalous event predicted for 2011 is going to involve us becoming completely acorporeal, but I
do believe that it will possibly involve events that will constitute irrefutable proof of the existence of astral space...something that won't give the atheists any wiggle room.
I'll admit not much is being sent to me about technology, where that is going, well...except broad strokes. This site -
http://jlnlabs.online.fr/ - gives a number of possible solutions to the energy problem presented by peak oil, and I think we're going to see a number of those get used. I've had mental pictures of cold fusion reactors...like the ones he tests on that site...being housed in a small, highly armoured (lead lined as well, maybe) box on the side of appliances. You'd need to plug it into a wall or a battery to supply the initial charge - sort of like a pilot light - but after that, each appliance that had one of those would have its own individual, self-perpetuating power supply.
Getting hydrogen from water is good, but what we really need to figure out also is how to get it from the air, because if we could do that and could also figure out how to combine it with oxygen molecules, we'd of course then be able to literally manufacture water. That is when all of your terraforming possibilities start to open up, because with that, water is the biggest hurdle. Once they had that cracked, then they could talk more seriously about going to Mars, and about making the place a sister planet to Earth as they've said. Because of being further out from the Sun, Mars would need a thicker atmosphere than ours in order to retain more heat...but they already know how to create a greenhouse effect...we've been doing that here for years.
As far as computers are concerned, I'm inclined to believe that the process of natural selection for operating systems is more or less over, and that UNIX derivatives (admittedly in radically different forms, eventually) are going to be the main focus for the foreseeable future. At the moment, there's still a schism between the Unices and Windows, but I feel that that will straighten out around 2012-2015 or so. The user friendly aspects of Windows will be assimilated, and Microsoft I think will disappear, since if we move towards an economic model similar to Lyssa Royal's Plaedian Equal Value System, (a fairly loose form of barter, essentially) the corporate world in general will become obselete. I think that is also in line with the desires of the majority. Corporations have caused sufficient harm that I do not believe human tolerance for their existence is going to endure for much longer. Despite promising otherwise, capitalism has largely turned out to give us the old aristocratic/royalist model with a new and slightly different coat of paint, for the most part. We need something better...although there are still a few technological hurdles before we get to this point.
The obsolescence of money would also mean that we were less likely to engage in excess, since if people are able to have as much of things as they want, greed will likely first be seen as mundane, and then as redundant. Greed is usually motivated in my observation by a fear of future scarcity. If scarcity is erradicated, (and I am completely convinced that it can be) then the basis for this fear will be erradicated also.
I won't say that I believe we're headed for a society that will be entirely free of problems, since I think that would be unrealistic...but I'm hoping that the problems that we do encounter will be of a less mundane and juvenile nature than those we have had to contend with so far. As Lyssa Royal says, the advent of nuclear technology (if nothing else) really meant that we have too great a responsibility to remain a child race any longer. It's time to grow up.