The 507 Effect

I am interested in having guest authors from time to time on The 507 Effect.  If anyone has something interesting to say regarding the Universe, Future, Present, or Past, please email me @ cardona507@hotmail.com or leave a comment.  Peace.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we’ll fight this little struggle,
‘Cause that’s the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

Brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We gon’ fight (we gon’ fight), we’ll have to fight (we gon’ fight),
We gonna fight (we gon’ fight), fight for our rights!

Natty Dread it in-a (Zimbabwe);
Set it up in (Zimbabwe);
Mash it up-a in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate (Zimbabwe), yeah.

No more internal power struggle;
We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary,
‘Cause I don’t want my people to be contrary.

And, brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We’ll ‘ave to fight (we gon’ fight), we gonna fight (we gon’ fight)
We’ll ‘ave to fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights!

Mash it up in-a (Zimbabwe);
Natty trash it in-a (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
I’n'I a-liberate Zimbabwe.

(Brother, you’re right,) you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We gon’ fight (we gon’ fight), we’ll ‘ave to fight (we gon’ fight),
We gonna fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights!

To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, mm - there beats a heart.
So soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don’t want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.

Brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We’ll ‘ave to fight (we gon’ fight), we gonna fight (we gon’ fight),
We’ll ‘ave to fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights!

Natty trash it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Mash it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Natty dub it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe).

Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe);
Every man got a right to decide his own destiny.

Albert Hoffman, the man who first synthesized LSD in 1938 has died at the age of 102.  He called LSD his “problem child”.  LSD has been one of our cultures Great Catalysts and it is a shame that its use is currently prohibited.  Albert Hoffman, thank you for broadening my horizons.

Humanity and Technology promise many marvels.  The power lying dormant at our fingertips is enough to power the world forever, or destroy it in a nuclear fission.  The technological promises of tomorrow are even more wondrous and amazing.  it seems that humanity, after billions of years of evolution, has reached a break point.  A point at which using the powers of its own mind, and the resources of its own planet, we will finally create tools allowing us to leave behind our primitive and violent past, and have abundance for all creation.  Already the tech exists for all humans to have electricity and clean water.  Already there are enough junk computers and cell phones for everyone on earth to be connected.  But the divide is in the profit motive.  I understand that people who develop new paradigms want to be compensated.  Even more so paradigms that are God-Like.  But never before has humanity truly had the opportunity to feed and cloth everyone.  Never before has humanity had the chance to make everyone healthy.  Never before have we had the chance to explore and colonize the galaxy.  This window may be closing rapidly.  An oil based society is doomed to collapse.  Currently we have an economic and cultural engine unheard of before in history.  We are on the launchpad, poised for a Grand Horizon.  But already the barbarians are looming on the borders.  Already the inmates run the asylum. 
Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.*  The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.*  Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.*  The stats are alarming because we are reaching a point of intelligence explosion.  As the gap between poor, uneducated people and enhanced intelligence grows wider, can we trust that there will not be some type of enslavement?  Can we trust that smaller more powerful technologies and weapons won’t be used in a host of ways against humanity and our culture?
If we navigate this narrow course, and prevent the train from derailing, humanity may be entering a phase where intelligence truly “flowers”, and we come into the great promise that we seem so capable of.  There appear to be no other signs of our form of intelligence in the observable Universe, meaning that either we are very very special, or that all societies that reach our level of development destroy themselves, and so we are also destined.  How we navigate this course will depend on each and every human.  No one can be left out or behind.  It the profit motive continues, then people will be left out, and there will be two classes.  Those enhanced and those not enhanced.  Enhanced humans already exist.  If you have a cell phone, use the internet, own a gun.  You are enhanced by technology.  It is all a matter of degree.  If the profit motive disappears, then there is enough for everyone.  All of earths resources will be directed at uplifting our minds, and harvesting the best ideas of the world so that we don’t miss this crucial window in time.  Everyone on earth will be provided for easily, and instead of the haves and the have nots, there will only be The Haves and The Have Mores.

*Thanks to GlobalIssues.org for the facts.

Each day I read something regarding a major break though in science or technology.  Each day something happens that would be monumental at any other moment in history, but we barely even notice it.  We are reaching a point of take off in terms of what Moores Law and computing can show us.  DNA Sequencing for the masses, Artificial Intelligence, A Theory of Everything, God like Machines, and many more wonders appear to be on humanities horizon.  Cochlear implants, Verichip, and BrainGate show very clearly that humans are all too willing to to meld with their machines.  But key questions are not being asked as a culture.  Transhumanism attempts to ask some of the questions. 

• Will new technologies only benefit the rich and powerful?
• Aren’t these future technologies very risky? Could they even cause our extinction?
• If these technologies are so dangerous, should they be banned?
• Is there any ethical standard …
• What kind of society would posthumans live in?
• Will posthumans or superintelligent machines pose a threat to humans who aren’t augmented?
• Will transhuman technologies make us inhuman?
• Are transhumanist technologies environmentally sound?
• How does transhumanism relate to religion?
• What kind of transhumanist art is there?
• Won’t these developments take thousands or millions of years?

And many more.  The world we live in is changing drastically.  It appears that this generation has been given the task to “program” the next epoch of Space/Time.  Wielding God like power, we will create an exponential reflection of our intentions and resources.  But my question is, Who or What are we Creating?

There’s blood in the water, and the sharks are circling.  Why is it that when you mess up in this world, there is always someone there to make money?  Why is it that when you are sick, there is always someone there to make money?  Why is it that when God touches your heart, there is always someone there to make money?  Our worlds belief structure creates a self perpetuating vicious cycle of greed and fear.  Everyone alive has had a moment where they were down, whether physically or spiritually.  Its what you do when you are down that this is all about.  Most people break when they are down.  They give up, succumb to control, and admit defeat.  They allow their lives and energy to be leached off of by the vampires who set this whole system up.  Most people become bitter, dwelling on what could have been, or stewing with envy and rage at someone who threw them off course.  They forget that light kills Vampires…  To have someone tell you about climbing a mountain is one thing, but to climb the mountain yourself, that is a whole other story.  Tribulation brings understanding, and understanding brings true compassion.  And The Compassionate ONE is what this world is starving for.  The Compassionate ONE drives the sharks and vampires away with the power of thought, voice, and action.  The power of inner light.  Cry not for yourself, cry for the millions oppressed worldwide.  Sing the Song of Their Liberty!  Take the fear and greed of the vampires and sharks and let it fire up your will to succeed!  For the Greatest Revenge is Success!

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Will computers think for themselves?  Will humans be able to reprogram our own biology, making us “super human”?  Will our kids be born into a world where every item is “smart”.  Michio Kaku, another one of my favorite modern philosophers and Great Minds tackles these questions in “Visions of the Future: The Intelligence Revolution“

This video does a great job illustrating the vast changes underway on our world.  By 2020 a microchip with the computing power of a modern cellphone will cost about $.01.  As this draws nearer, chips will begin to be embedded in everything truly leading to the “ubiquity era” with thousands of computers per user.  Humans will then (if not already) begin hard-wiring our minds with more processing power and altering our DNA to dramatic results.  Humans may no longer be Homo Sapien and may self selectively evolve into Cyber Sapiens.

THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR!

Question of the Day:
Do you think humans will achieve this great change in our very essence?