Ender On Resilience
Wiggins of OSD takes one of my rapid news quote posts and expounds on resiliency –
To expand slightly: the price volatility of legacy energy sources motivates the move towards distributed energy production (which will use a range of niche alternative sources). This is one dimension of a multi-faceted shift towards greater resilience and agility.
Decentralization and energy platform mobility are definitely two key aspects of a resilient future. Throw in some terms like transparency, leanness, open source and technology enabled and something very snazzy starts to take form.
Questions Answered
Curtis asks some important questions –
Why is it that Robb and so many of the believers in GG can see clearly that ‘order’ is doomed or at least quite disadvantaged in that future World of Unending Chaos, but his GG’s will still have enough faith in their ability to establish their own precious rule-sets that they actually get out of bed early to go out and fight?
Once again, I’m not sure where the “order is doomed” bit comes from. A substantial portion of my work here and Robb’s writing is focused on analyzing what rule set changes are required on our end to adapt to a new world. This suggests that there is a working set of rules we need to understand and react to in order to maintain our way of life – our order. Resiliency is the buzzword of the day, and not because of peak oil or global warming.
I suspect their ability to perpetuate their rulesets hinges on conflict and chaos. The rule-set works at war. Perpetuate the conflict, perpetuate the ruleset.
And –
“If order is at such a disadvantage, what gives them their faith in their ability to create their own particular orders?”
One answer: If you’re beating all of the major players in the modern world, would you have faith in yourself? Especially if you attribute that success to a particular ideology?
Another: How does this question change if the order is reliant upon chaos?
“More importantly, given the CHAOTIC SITUATION, what will they do to ensure that their own activities are not merely adding to that chaos or certain to be swamped by it? These are the important questions.”
4GW requires social network support, 5GW holds that technology supplants that support which equates to superempowered individuals. Society doesn’t matter.
I have a feeling that the chaos inducer is not particularly hurt by their efforts bearing fruit. Accomplishing goals and visions strengthens organizations, and a worldwide TAZ is in line with GG goals. (Which in turn drives the perpetuation of their rule set.)
Existential imperatives will play a major role in this. In a fragmented world if you don’t get out of bed to fight you won’t survive (either physically or your tribe/ideology/whatever holds you together) the long term low intensity conflicts that make up the epochal war.
Busy week, been traveling lately, apologize for the delay.
RFID Credit Cards
Kevin Fu, a computer science professor at the university, and colleagues said that in 20 tests of cards issued by Visa, MasterCard and American Express data including the cardholder’s name was being transmitted in plain text with no encryption.
The researchers said they were able to read the cards using a device built from $150 worth of common computer and radio components. They said the cards could be read through clothing and wallets, calling the security of the devices into question.
Oil = Infinite
UPI –
Eric Cheney said Friday in a news release that changing economics, technological advances and efforts such as recycling and substitution make the world’s mineral resources virtually infinite.
“It might be a heck of a lot more expensive than it is now, but there will always be some oil available at a price, perhaps $10 to $100 a gallon.”
Add societal context (oil disruption) to the mix and prices skyrocket.