Canada has ridden fast and far upon the crest of the first wave of computer technology. Computer technology has given us more than email and YouTube!. It has also given us concepts and language that are useful in addressing the set of challenges we face – environmental, social, cultural, economic, sovereignty, justice, education, health, et cetera.
For instance, most of us know what software is. We know what software packages are. We know that some software is better [more elegant, more pragmatic, more User friendly, more profitable in various ways] than other types or generations of the same software. Often the difference is better math and analysis – better Code.
The term Software can also be applied to the information [data] we acquire and the ways we implement and apply it [operating systems] in our brains, lives, society [environments], and the way we acquire information through instruction, study and research [search engines].
In Canada we have developed and/or implemented the best Human Software systems ever devised by humanity. This is our culture – The Universal Culture – which has drawn upon the best of everyone, everywhere, coupled with a vast array of supporting robotic technologies. Our Software has unique and universal application. Read my essay set “Building The Canadian Dream” on this blog for more data about Human Software.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Isaac Newton Can’t Do It! Science in Public Schools
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
In Newton’s Universe matter can only exist in one place at a time. Yet we prove on a daily and ongoing basis that this is not true; that matter 'can' be duplicated and applied to real situations with real results. Every time we write and send an email we are aligning electrons into meaningful series and then we use these arranged electrons to DO things. These technologies are tools that enable us to make tools to do other things. In Newton’s Universe it was impossible.
Newton was wrong and Newton can’t do it. Einstein could, did, and he has enabled all of us to do it in keeping with his peculiar and effective view of reality; of the nature of the physical world and the potential that is embodied in the smallest particles of matter and their subcomponents, which are ‘non-matter’. These tools have no physical being and cannot be located in a place. They are a ‘quantum leap’ ahead of their physical predecessors. The energy contained in these small particles is really difficult, if not impossible to predict and calculate at this point in our exploration and development of this new Science…this new set of sciences.
Only Quantum Theory [math, physics, et cetera] can enable and give us a theoretical base that allows for the effective use of neutrons and electrons [quarks, coloured gluons, quantum chromodynamics] in communication and in social, cultural, physical, industrial, scientific and political change. This is a sub-atomic particle era [The Atomic Age] and we know how to use our ‘subs’ with greater and greater facility. This cannot be accommodated by Isaac Newton’s inflexible universe and requires a conception of The Quantum.
How could we have known and who would have guessed that neutrons are existent phenomena that can and must co-exist in more than one place at the same time and that we can align, arrange and manipulate these electrons in meaningful ways that change all aspects of life? Who would have suspected, given what was previously believed and taught? Newton did not allow it.
We must teach our children Quantum Theory and we must do it quickly. In order for this to be possible, teachers and others must become acquainted with the Science of their Age. Presently they seem to know nothing about it and still struggle in a ‘mechanical universe’ instead of in a Quantum Universe. Quantum allows and permits and enables miracles by the standards of Newtonian Physics. These Quantum Phenomena make the real condition and Being of the essential material of the universe the subject of a Science, rather than a mystery, a technology rather than a miracle. Not knowing this is an impediment to our National stability, progress and growth. And this ‘problem’ is rooted in our public schools and the curricula we employ in them. These are outdated, obsolete and a waste of resources, money, time and lives.
Teachers require immediate and appropriate training in this Science and other necessary Educational adjustments. This should have been done fifty years ago. Our survival and success depend upon this. We need good teachers trained in current science and with good technologies available to assist them in sharing these important components of The Universal Culture with all students in all schools. The rules have changed completely in the physical world and everyone must know…quickly.
The rules of education must also change in order to accommodate the ‘changed’ reality. One way to begin to address this set of problems is to engage the resources of research centres like The Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario in a public education “upgrade”. We need new approaches and understandings…new Software…quickly. And we need to learn how to implement and apply the new technologies that have already been enabled by this new science, not only cell phones, iPods, BlackBerries, but new technologies of all types. We will learn these things from our children so they should be encouraged to implement and use these cutting edge technologies in our schools. The future is in their hands in Gameboys and Quantum tools. These tools will enable a rapid response to Global problems which current technologies will not allow.
“Newton is dead. Long live Einstein.”
RJW
In Newton’s Universe matter can only exist in one place at a time. Yet we prove on a daily and ongoing basis that this is not true; that matter 'can' be duplicated and applied to real situations with real results. Every time we write and send an email we are aligning electrons into meaningful series and then we use these arranged electrons to DO things. These technologies are tools that enable us to make tools to do other things. In Newton’s Universe it was impossible.
Newton was wrong and Newton can’t do it. Einstein could, did, and he has enabled all of us to do it in keeping with his peculiar and effective view of reality; of the nature of the physical world and the potential that is embodied in the smallest particles of matter and their subcomponents, which are ‘non-matter’. These tools have no physical being and cannot be located in a place. They are a ‘quantum leap’ ahead of their physical predecessors. The energy contained in these small particles is really difficult, if not impossible to predict and calculate at this point in our exploration and development of this new Science…this new set of sciences.
Only Quantum Theory [math, physics, et cetera] can enable and give us a theoretical base that allows for the effective use of neutrons and electrons [quarks, coloured gluons, quantum chromodynamics] in communication and in social, cultural, physical, industrial, scientific and political change. This is a sub-atomic particle era [The Atomic Age] and we know how to use our ‘subs’ with greater and greater facility. This cannot be accommodated by Isaac Newton’s inflexible universe and requires a conception of The Quantum.
How could we have known and who would have guessed that neutrons are existent phenomena that can and must co-exist in more than one place at the same time and that we can align, arrange and manipulate these electrons in meaningful ways that change all aspects of life? Who would have suspected, given what was previously believed and taught? Newton did not allow it.
We must teach our children Quantum Theory and we must do it quickly. In order for this to be possible, teachers and others must become acquainted with the Science of their Age. Presently they seem to know nothing about it and still struggle in a ‘mechanical universe’ instead of in a Quantum Universe. Quantum allows and permits and enables miracles by the standards of Newtonian Physics. These Quantum Phenomena make the real condition and Being of the essential material of the universe the subject of a Science, rather than a mystery, a technology rather than a miracle. Not knowing this is an impediment to our National stability, progress and growth. And this ‘problem’ is rooted in our public schools and the curricula we employ in them. These are outdated, obsolete and a waste of resources, money, time and lives.
Teachers require immediate and appropriate training in this Science and other necessary Educational adjustments. This should have been done fifty years ago. Our survival and success depend upon this. We need good teachers trained in current science and with good technologies available to assist them in sharing these important components of The Universal Culture with all students in all schools. The rules have changed completely in the physical world and everyone must know…quickly.
The rules of education must also change in order to accommodate the ‘changed’ reality. One way to begin to address this set of problems is to engage the resources of research centres like The Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario in a public education “upgrade”. We need new approaches and understandings…new Software…quickly. And we need to learn how to implement and apply the new technologies that have already been enabled by this new science, not only cell phones, iPods, BlackBerries, but new technologies of all types. We will learn these things from our children so they should be encouraged to implement and use these cutting edge technologies in our schools. The future is in their hands in Gameboys and Quantum tools. These tools will enable a rapid response to Global problems which current technologies will not allow.
“Newton is dead. Long live Einstein.”
RJW
Sunday, February 4, 2007
On The Line appearance
Press Release 05.01.07
For immediate release
Guelph Liberal candidacy hopeful John Williams appears on CTS-TV's On The Line to discuss issues of importance to Canadian youths and seniors. Human and Civil Rights for all Canadians and “education reform for survival” are the focus in this discussion.
The program airs at 12:00 noon on Monday February 5 (CTS is cable 23 in Guelph).
On The Line is a nationally televised news headline panel discussion show hosted by Christine Williams and produced by Paul Williamson in Burlington, Ontario. Today's discussion focuses upon love and aging in the first segment. The second segment deals with children's access to cell phones and other IT devices while in school [iPods, et cetera]. The third segment deals with children's access to their special medicines and medical equipment like puffers and eppipens in school.
Also see John's blog at the link below for the newest entry, “Best Country – Worst Country”. It takes a rational look at the Conservative Party's methods of analysis as they prepare for the next election
www.thecanadiandream.blogspot.com
John's next scheduled television appearance is Thursday March 1st 7 PM (Live). He will join host Tim Mau on Rogers Television's Politically Speaking [Cable 20 in Guelph] to discuss, 'Guelph as Princeton North - a quantum leap.' Watch for more information.
For immediate release
Guelph Liberal candidacy hopeful John Williams appears on CTS-TV's On The Line to discuss issues of importance to Canadian youths and seniors. Human and Civil Rights for all Canadians and “education reform for survival” are the focus in this discussion.
The program airs at 12:00 noon on Monday February 5 (CTS is cable 23 in Guelph).
On The Line is a nationally televised news headline panel discussion show hosted by Christine Williams and produced by Paul Williamson in Burlington, Ontario. Today's discussion focuses upon love and aging in the first segment. The second segment deals with children's access to cell phones and other IT devices while in school [iPods, et cetera]. The third segment deals with children's access to their special medicines and medical equipment like puffers and eppipens in school.
Also see John's blog at the link below for the newest entry, “Best Country – Worst Country”. It takes a rational look at the Conservative Party's methods of analysis as they prepare for the next election
www.thecanadiandream.blogspot.com
John's next scheduled television appearance is Thursday March 1st 7 PM (Live). He will join host Tim Mau on Rogers Television's Politically Speaking [Cable 20 in Guelph] to discuss, 'Guelph as Princeton North - a quantum leap.' Watch for more information.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Multiculturalism: Canadians - Who Are We?
Canada is a remarkable country in many ways. One of our peculiarities is our code of multiculturalism. While some nations require their immigrants to relinquish the culture of their native country, Canada encourages people to maintain the features of their homelands and to share them with other Canadians. This has made us strong and given us the potential to reach out with good faith and goodwill to people everywhere.
We can and must reach out to the world with our inclusive and accepting culture. And we must do it quickly, efficiently and diplomatically. The need is Urgent! The people of The Earth need to learn to live together in peace before they destroy themselves, along with the environment, our children and us. Canada and Canadians can lead the way in this area of promoting peace, which is our strongest area of expertise and unique in history, for history is largely the story of wars. We need a Plan.
We can show the people of The Earth how to live together in peace and harmony and productivity, regardless of language, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or any other human feature. The world needs what we have built here. Our Human Technologies can help transform The Earth into a more kind, clean, generous, peaceful and hospitable place. Multiculturalism has made it possible for us to reach out to the hurting world and help bring healing, tolerance and compassion to people everywhere.
“Don’t keep the peace…pass it on.”
Monday, January 1, 2007
Groundwater and Guelph
Groundwater and Guelph
“Think Global. Act Local”
-The Whole Earth Catalogue
I met him at a New Year’s party. Standing in our hosts’ kitchen he looked down upon my six-foot frame with clear and penetrating eyes framed by graying hair.
“I’ve worked for twenty-five years as a ground water technologist in the Earth Sciences Department at The University of Waterloo. I help teams of students and professors to do their field research, mostly taking samples from the limestone base in this region to test for pollutants?”
“And how do the results look?” I asked.
“Grim,” he replied. “There’s been a long history of heavy industry around here. It’s not looking good,” he said, now squinting his eyes against the painful truth that produced his words.
Grim? Yes. Impossible? No.
Dr. David Schlinder, Canada’s most respected water purity and maintenance scientist, who teaches at The University of Alberta, tells us there is still hope. But he adds that the window of opportunity is closing rapidly. “If we do not make the necessary changes in the way we manage our groundwater,” Dr. Schlinder said in a lecture at The Museum of Natural History [2005] broadcast on CPAC, “then all of our fresh water sources in Canada will be fouled beyond human consumption in seven to twelve years”. And he added that pollution is only part of the problem. We also face the possibility of serious drought in the next few years.
He spoke as a man who had shared this warning many times, convinced that no one was listening to his alarming statistics.
“But the good news is that there’s still time to act and we have the inexpensive nature-based technologies to turn back the tide of groundwater pollution. But we must act quickly and implement our science and technologies.”
It was two years ago that I heard him say this. Since then I have published some environmental ideas in my essay “The Future: Peace Pays [Exploring The Canadian Identity.]” Dr. Schindler has endorsed these ideas. One of my main recommendation is that we rapidly implement the Canadian technologies that he and his colleagues have devised.
But my philosophy concerning the environment is simply stated. “Don’t make the mess.” We must stop the poisoning and garbaging and destruction and careless overuse of the Earth. And the best place to begin is here in Guelph, a hotbed of environmentalists with a “get it done!” attitude.
Our new Mayor Karen Farbridge has Guelph’s long-term fresh water supply high on the priorities list for the next four years. She proposes planning a hundred years ahead.
I support her plans and raise her another hundred years. :)
John/Jake
“Think Global. Act Local”
-The Whole Earth Catalogue
I met him at a New Year’s party. Standing in our hosts’ kitchen he looked down upon my six-foot frame with clear and penetrating eyes framed by graying hair.
“I’ve worked for twenty-five years as a ground water technologist in the Earth Sciences Department at The University of Waterloo. I help teams of students and professors to do their field research, mostly taking samples from the limestone base in this region to test for pollutants?”
“And how do the results look?” I asked.
“Grim,” he replied. “There’s been a long history of heavy industry around here. It’s not looking good,” he said, now squinting his eyes against the painful truth that produced his words.
Grim? Yes. Impossible? No.
Dr. David Schlinder, Canada’s most respected water purity and maintenance scientist, who teaches at The University of Alberta, tells us there is still hope. But he adds that the window of opportunity is closing rapidly. “If we do not make the necessary changes in the way we manage our groundwater,” Dr. Schlinder said in a lecture at The Museum of Natural History [2005] broadcast on CPAC, “then all of our fresh water sources in Canada will be fouled beyond human consumption in seven to twelve years”. And he added that pollution is only part of the problem. We also face the possibility of serious drought in the next few years.
He spoke as a man who had shared this warning many times, convinced that no one was listening to his alarming statistics.
“But the good news is that there’s still time to act and we have the inexpensive nature-based technologies to turn back the tide of groundwater pollution. But we must act quickly and implement our science and technologies.”
It was two years ago that I heard him say this. Since then I have published some environmental ideas in my essay “The Future: Peace Pays [Exploring The Canadian Identity.]” Dr. Schindler has endorsed these ideas. One of my main recommendation is that we rapidly implement the Canadian technologies that he and his colleagues have devised.
But my philosophy concerning the environment is simply stated. “Don’t make the mess.” We must stop the poisoning and garbaging and destruction and careless overuse of the Earth. And the best place to begin is here in Guelph, a hotbed of environmentalists with a “get it done!” attitude.
Our new Mayor Karen Farbridge has Guelph’s long-term fresh water supply high on the priorities list for the next four years. She proposes planning a hundred years ahead.
I support her plans and raise her another hundred years. :)
John/Jake
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Building The Canadian Dream Package - 3 Essays
Building The Canadian Dream "If we can dream it, we can make it."
This series of essays is a good introduction to some of my ideas and how they translate into public policy.
Click Below for Individual Sections
Table of Contents and Introduction
1. Egerton Ryerson: Father Of Education In Ontario
2. Our Most Precious Treasures: The Rights Of Children
3. The Future: Peace Pays - Exploring The Canadian Identity -
Some Closing Thoughts About Culture
Canadian Children's Right Update
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This series of essays is a good introduction to some of my ideas and how they translate into public policy.
Click Below for Individual Sections
Table of Contents and Introduction
1. Egerton Ryerson: Father Of Education In Ontario
2. Our Most Precious Treasures: The Rights Of Children
3. The Future: Peace Pays - Exploring The Canadian Identity -
Some Closing Thoughts About Culture
Canadian Children's Right Update
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.
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