Saturday, February 28, 2015

Who is Going to Build J. D. Alt's Architectural Vision!

J. D. Alt drew the architectural plan for a new monetary system.  Who will build it?

Sir Tim Bernres-Lee laid down a plan for the World Wide Web structured on a simple foundation building block of the Internet Protocol to identify unique conceptual identities and connecting IP addresses with http.  Who built on that?

Christianity was created by a guy, or Guy if you prefer that gave a unique identity to each individual entity and a basic protocol to connect them.  Who built on that?

In each case it was early adopters of a system architecturally designed to elegantly expand in range and depth.  The ones that saw the beauty in the relational truth associating the things in the system through functional interaction.

Sir Tim had an easier task.  He created a new system that had no established predecessor but established conceptual component modular concepts.  With a predecessor system it was not so easy.  Likewise the banking system with its vested interests in serving itself well, even  better than its users.  Serving itself by using its users?  A moral hazard?

J. D. Alt suggests that hmm... I have to go back to what he suggested here at New Economic Perspectives:

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/02/the-millennials-money-pt-1.html#more-9136

Millennial a pick up the plan and take it to fruition.  An interesting idea.  I would have otherwise thought that it would happen relatively quickly like a Google or a Facebook.  Things happen quicker as the Information Age progresses.  On the other hand J. D. might be right.  Speed of change is somewhat constrained by the speed of generational change more along the model of Civil Rights or religious fundamentalist thinking where the system of belief has to die progressively with the people that hold them.  Some beliefs take longer to die inspite of their fallacy.

One comment on J. D's post called the generational change theory basically unsupported junk science.  Maybe unsupported but I think an idea that may have merit.

Side note:  Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a Unitarian Universalist.

I could have guessed it.

Sir Tim says:

"I believe that much of the philosophy of life associated with many religions is much more sound than the dogma which comes along with it. So I do respect them."[57]

Why do I write any of this stuff?

Tilting at windmills amuses me.  

Keeps my free range mind active?

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