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The Necessities Of Survival.

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Hill Bowman

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December 1st 2018 ©

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Dedicated to

Hilda Sue Bowman

my mother

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And my “ “ “Abba YHWH” “ “

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Chapter 1.

The Bigger Picture

Chapter 2.

Earth Is A Closed Ecosystem

Chapter 3.

Resources Are Limited But Bureaucracy Is Perpetual

Chapter 4.

Crowdfunding And Open Research

Chapter 5.

A Battle Against Principalities

Chapter 6.

Tomorrow Starts Today

Chapter 7.

Extrapolation On Moore’s Law

Chapter 8.

You Are Here

Chapter 9.

The Necessity of Cross Referencing

Chapter 10.

Road Map To Survival

Chapter 11.

Integrated Parts

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Unified Survival Theory

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Requirement Of Migration

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The Need to Migrate

Was it about Smokey?

All Right then;

From the End > to > the beginning.

What it’s all about, it's about a footpath of stepping stones that gradually gently and easily make a traversable transit like ants walking along the same chemical trail. Except We will be walking along the same (Electromachanical Electromagnetic) galactic footpaths..

From planet to planet through our solar system;

Extending in steady progression to both the outer edge and also center of our galaxy.

I believe this text can prove this long term objective feasible.

( technologically speaking ),

within under 200 years.

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Within the next 50 years,

establishing colonies on any livable planets and harvesting from all of them.

Within the next 20 years,

it should be us the population, the human race that takes the lead. in this expansion to outer space.

It should not be government or industry.

if it is then our opportunity as a free and pioneering species WILL most certainly be enslaved for the far foreseeable future by either corporatocracy or oppressive government..

The alternative …

What I attempt to suggest in this document will allow the human population, as a population to expand freely.

At your own will, initiative and capabilities as individuals and small groups such as vacationers in corporate business planners might see fit.

It should be Crowd funding (as crowd funding is the closest modern man can get to democracy).

Unfettered by government and Corporatocracy

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This is your personal opportunity to put your money on your Own interest ~~ for forward momentum as a species.

Put your money on the objectives that you want to go forward.

Make physical technological progress as a species in the directions that we agree apon, collectively as a species

Casting our vote for specific results in a specific intended direction…

Through Crowdfunding via Our Collective Financial Contributions to any given project under the universe.

Technology, engineering, science, aerospace, agriculture, under c, exploration, mining, you pick it…, humanities, medicine etc.

… For the benefit of the species Humanity),

…in the direction that(YOU THINK) best serves our biosphere as a whole…

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Hey how's it going today everybody this is smokey smoke of ABQ signing on and flying over…

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Let’s just check a few facts like the altimeter reading oxygen and a few other little tidbits to get the ball rolling…

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All of the living organisms in our biosphere ( as well as ourselves in our own personal interests) are at a critical juncture in human understanding, in science technology, engineering, physics, materials manipulations such as metallurgy and polymers, dissemination of information and capability to digest that information that we must move out into low earth orbit.

It a necessity of our own survival as a species. If by some circumstance our biosphere can no longer sustain us (from which probabilities there are more than a few), then by necessities of survival of the species we must have first and foremost a libraries of knowledge archived in low earth orbit or perhaps Middle Earth orbit furthermore we should immediately begin on building geosynchronous low earth orbit platforms for habitation as housing as, a business, as daily activity and not as something scientifically spectacular.

We've had the technology(on Moss as a species) for years and years and decades and decades.

it's time to get out there.

To master the art , science and technology of being an interplanetary / intergalactic space fairing spspecies

NOT a terrestrial one.

~~For real talk.~~

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I assure you, within 30 years human beings will be working and living in space. The question is?, what will the habitation conditions be…??l

What will the working conditions and environment be !!/

And Who Will Dictate Those Living Conditions !?/

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Think about it !!...

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Those are the two questions that are paramount.

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Next: As in Right Now this is the first thing we need to do.

Through crowdfunding We as a global population, should start propelling money in the directions of the technology, resources and expansion ventures that you choose to support.

And thereby begin moving technologically(and morally) in the direction we should have gone in ever since the 1970s.

Now all the cards are on the table. So seriously, everybody that reads this book, if you put $1 on it crowdfund something put $1 on it. Maybe a month or a year from now you’ll put $10 on that same crowd funding but fund it.

Because

There are almost 8 billion inhabitants (human that is) on our biosphere as I speak at the moment.

If a billion people put $10 on something that’s 10 billion dollars.

(Note: in My relations to multimedia advertising I can tell you that this is an outstanding percentile ratio of viewers to those that buy in.

But I digress again please forgive me)…

And that would build our first Self-Replicating, twin-gravity ring, inner – Inner-planatery, Space Vessel.

‘’inner-planetary, Space vessel/ habitat”.

~~ The … “Stepping Stone”

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Chapter 1 the bigger picture

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“Jake Dunagan, the director of design futures at the consulting firm Very Nice, studies the cognitive biases that make it difficult for people to plan ahead. “That’s one of the conundrums of futurist work: The future doesn’t exist,” Dunagan tells me. “It’s always a projection.” Our minds, he says, have not evolved to be very good at seeing our future as connected to our present, as we spent so much of our early existence concerned with outwitting immediate threats.”

Quote source - Can Human Mortality Really Be Hacked? By Elmo Keep Smithsonian Magazine | June 2017

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Smokey here.

let’s take a minute and take a hard look at me personally.

The immediate environment we all exist in.

The objectives and pursuits we might best put our collective resources toward…

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1 ) first thing…

The first thing that must be realized by all human beings is that this biosphere that we call Earth is a closed ecosystem.

Without extrapolating too much detail in the biology (this book is intended for general reading after all).

It is critical to understand that in a closed ecosystem there is a maximum life support for volume of living organisms within that ecosystem.

When maximum volume of total organisms within an ecosystem reaches maximum level (capacity) the vast majority of any species within that ecosystem will die off by starvation, lack of shelter, water, oxygen, and other necessities that the ecosystem can no longer provide for all organisms within the ecosystem.

It has been scientifically demonstrated that when a closed ecosystem reaches maximum population density then organisms across-the-board relying on food, water and other natural resources begin to go through a die off.

Surviving population stagnate to whatever the environment can sustain. populations can no longer grow.

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Human beings are the only organism on this planet Earth that have the capacity to expand out from this planet to other planets.

It is essential for the survival of not only Humanity but of all the living organisms on this planet (as well as the survival of the biosphere itself), that Humanity find a way to start moving out into the solar system immediately. And not for exploration but for habitation employment and long-term living arrangements as in generations.

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Further;

To harvest the raw resources of intergalactic space. And to construct our new intergalactic existences from those raw resources on site.

To expand out from this small little sanctuary of life we call earth. to create colonies, to export life in man-made into galactic vessels such as the “Steping Stone” centripetal gravitation into planetary space vessel…

To boldly build an electromagnetic electromechanical row of intergalactic ants that travel from here to the kuiper belt and at least 100 years step by step and from there out to the edge of the Milky Way galaxy and toward the center of it step by step in no less than 200 years.

As well as interplanetary colonization.

Colonizing other planets in Mass numbers. Throughout our own Milky Way Galaxy and also to other galaxies within a 12 light year diameter from planet Earth.

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Smokey here again, there are some things I should tell you up front about this book

This book is not intended to satisfy or stroke the eagles of any particular personages or organization.

This book is intended to spell out and blunt and direct language to the general popopulation;

Our state of the arts in science technology and human capabilities.

Underwater, On land, In low earth orbit: Projecting out to the Kuiper belt And beyond…

I see you stand flabbergast, but I tell you right now as we speak humanity has the capability scientifically we have the technology we have the engineers we have the manpower the only thing we lack is…

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(…Coordinated Unity… )

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(…Constructive Money…)

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In short I am writing this book to tell you what is really going on …

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AS OPPOSED TO SOME BIAS OPINION TO ACHIEVE MY OBJECTIVES, OR TO REDIRECT YOUR OPINIONS.

NOR IS THIS DOCUMENT INTENDED TO SELL YOU SOME BULL SHIT YOU NEITHER NEED NOR EVEN REALLY WANT, THAT WILL WASTE YOUR TIME, YOUR MONEY AND YOUR PATIENCE.

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THIS DOCUMENT IS SIMPLY TO INFORM YOU. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS

FROM THERE IT’S UP TO YOU AS THE PROPERLY INFORMED ADULT TO MAKE THE IMMEDIATE DEDECISION

~~AS NIKE USED TO SAY, ~~

“ JUST DO IT” )

…AND DO IT RIGHT NOW TODAY

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This book started out as a humble short story and has evolved into Three full books as well as the short story... It is simply too much information to try to convey about this project in this concept and strictly technical times so I hope you will enjoy the short story of “MOM.”

MOM. (SSEM) Stepping Stone Engineers Manual

This book is not intended as a scientific treatise but rather as a humbled but capable observation in cognizant awareness of the reality of our environment and our circumstances."...

Hill Bowman

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years ago

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Enshittification isn’t inevitable: under different conditions and constraints, the old, good internet could have given way to a new, good internet. Enshittification is the result of specific policy choices: encouraging monopolies; enabling high-speed, digital shell games; and blocking interoperability.

First we allowed companies to buy up their competitors. Google is the shining example here: having made one good product (search), they then fielded an essentially unbroken string of in-house flops, but it didn’t matter, because they were able to buy their way to glory: video, mobile, ad-tech, server management, docs, navigation…They’re not Willy Wonka’s idea factory, they’re Rich Uncle Pennybags, making up for their lack of invention by buying out everyone else:

https://locusmag.com/2022/03/cory-doctorow-vertically-challenged/

But this acquisition-fueled growth isn’t unique to tech. Every administration since Reagan (but not Biden! more on this later) has chipped away at antitrust enforcement, so that every sector has undergone an orgy of mergers, from athletic shoes to sea freight, eyeglasses to pro wrestling:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/07/09/the-importance-of-competition-for-the-american-economy/

But tech is different, because digital is flexible in a way that analog can never be. Tech companies can “twiddle” the back-ends of their clouds to change the rules of the business from moment to moment, in a high-speed shell-game that can make it impossible to know what kind of deal you’re getting:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/knob-jockeys/#bros-be-twiddlin

To make things worse, users are banned from twiddling. The thicket of rules we call IP ensure that twiddling is only done against users, never for them. Reverse-engineering, scraping, bots — these can all be blocked with legal threats and suits and even criminal sanctions, even if they’re being done for legitimate purposes:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

Enhittification isn’t inevitable but if we let companies buy all their competitors, if we let them twiddle us with every hour that God sends, if we make it illegal to twiddle back in self-defense, we will get twiddled to death. When a company can operate without the discipline of competition, nor of privacy law, nor of labor law, nor of fair trading law, with the US government standing by to punish any rival who alters the logic of their service, then enshittification is the utterly foreseeable outcome.

To understand how our technology gets distorted by these policy choices, consider “The Cloud.” Once, “the cloud” was just a white-board glyph, a way to show that some part of a software’s logic would touch some commodified, fungible, interchangeable appendage of the internet. Today, “The Cloud” is a flashing warning sign, the harbinger of enshittification.

When your image-editing tools live on your computer, your files are yours. But once Adobe moves your software to The Cloud, your critical, labor-intensive, unrecreatable images are purely contingent. At at time, without notice, Adobe can twiddle the back end and literally steal the colors out of your own files:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

The finance sector loves The Cloud. Add “The Cloud” to a product and profits (money you get for selling something) can turn into rents (money you get for owning something). Profits can be eroded by competition, but rents are evergreen:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

No wonder The Cloud has seeped into every corner of our lives. Remember your first iPod? Adding music to it was trivial: double click any music file to import it into iTunes, then plug in your iPod and presto, synched! Today, even sophisticated technology users struggle to “side load” files onto their mobile devices. Instead, the mobile duopoly — Apple and Google, who bought their way to mobile glory and have converged on the same rent-seeking business practices, down to the percentages they charge — want you to get your files from The Cloud, via their apps. This isn’t for technological reasons, it’s a business imperative: 30% of every transaction that involves an app gets creamed off by either Apple or Google in pure rents:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-another-audiobook-that-amazon-wont-sell/posts/3788112

And yet, The Cloud is undeniably useful. Having your files synch across multiple devices, including your collaborators’ devices, with built-in tools for resolving conflicting changes, is amazing. Indeed, this feat is the holy grail of networked tools, because it’s how programmers write all the software we use, including software in The Cloud.

If you want to know how good a tool can be, just look at the tools that toolsmiths use. With “source control” — the software programmers use to collaboratively write software — we get a very different vision of how The Cloud could operate. Indeed, modern source control doesn’t use The Cloud at all. Programmers’ workflow doesn’t break if they can’t access the internet, and if the company that provides their source control servers goes away, it’s simplicity itself to move onto another server provider.

This isn’t The Cloud, it’s just “the cloud” — that whiteboard glyph from the days of the old, good internet — freely interchangeable, eminently fungible, disposable and replaceable. For a tool like git, Github is just one possible synchronization point among many, all of which have a workflow whereby programmers’ computers automatically make local copies of all relevant data and periodically lob it back up to one or more servers, resolving conflicting edits through a process that is also largely automated.

There’s a name for this model: it’s called “Local First” computing, which is computing that starts from the presumption that the user and their device is the most important element of the system. Networked servers are dumb pipes and dumb storage, a nice-to-have that fails gracefully when it’s not available.

The data structures of source-code are among the most complicated formats we have; if we can do this for code, we can do it for spreadsheets, word-processing files, slide-decks, even edit-decision-lists for video and audio projects. If local-first computing can work for programmers writing code, it can work for the programs those programmers write.

Local-first computing is experiencing a renaissance. Writing for Wired, Gregory Barber traces the history of the movement, starting with the French computer scientist Marc Shapiro, who helped develop the theory of “Conflict-Free Replicated Data” — a way to synchronize data after multiple people edit it — two decades ago:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a-prison-can-the-local-first-software-movement-set-us-free/

Shapiro and his co-author Nuno Preguiça envisioned CFRD as the building block of a new generation of P2P collaboration tools that weren’t exactly serverless, but which also didn’t rely on servers as the lynchpin of their operation. They published a technical paper that, while exiting, was largely drowned out by the release of GoogleDocs (based on technology built by a company that Google bought, not something Google made in-house).

Shapiro and Preguiça’s work got fresh interest with the 2019 publication of “Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud,” a viral whitepaper-cum-manifesto from a quartet of computer scientists associated with Cambridge University and Ink and Switch, a self-described “industrial research lab”:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/static/local-first.pdf

The paper describes how its authors — Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg and Mark McGranaghan — prototyped and tested a bunch of simple local-first collaboration tools built on CFRD algorithms, with the goal of “network optional…seamless collaboration.” The results are impressive, if nascent. Conflicting edits were simpler to resolve than the authors anticipated, and users found URLs to be a good, intuitive way of sharing documents. The biggest hurdles are relatively minor, like managing large amounts of change-data associated with shared files.

Just as importantly, the paper makes the case for why you’d want to switch to local-first computing. The Cloud is not reliable. Companies like Evernote don’t last forever — they can disappear in an eyeblink, and take your data with them:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23789012/evernote-layoff-us-staff-bending-spoons-note-taking-app

Google isn’t likely to disappear any time soon, but Google is a graduate of the Darth Vader MBA program (“I have altered the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further”) and notorious for shuttering its products, even beloved ones like Google Reader:

https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

And while the authors don’t mention it, Google is also prone to simply kicking people off all its services, costing them their phone numbers, email addresses, photos, document archives and more:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/allopathic-risk/#snitches-get-stitches

There is enormous enthusiasm among developers for local-first application design, which is only natural. After all, companies that use The Cloud go to great lengths to make it just “the cloud,” using containerization to simplify hopping from one cloud provider to another in a bid to stave off lock-in from their cloud providers and the enshittification that inevitably follows.

The nimbleness of containerization acts as a disciplining force on cloud providers when they deal with their business customers: disciplined by the threat of losing money, cloud companies are incentivized to treat those customers better. The companies we deal with as end-users know exactly how bad it gets when a tech company can impose high switching costs on you and then turn the screws until things are almost-but-not-quite so bad that you bolt for the doors. They devote fantastic effort to making sure that never happens to them — and that they can always do that to you.

Interoperability — the ability to leave one service for another — is technology’s secret weapon, the thing that ensures that users can turn The Cloud into “the cloud,” a humble whiteboard glyph that you can erase and redraw whenever it suits you. It’s the greatest hedge we have against enshittification, so small wonder that Big Tech has spent decades using interop to clobber their competitors, and lobbying to make it illegal to use interop against them:

https://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/

Getting interop back is a hard slog, but it’s also our best shot at creating a new, good internet that lives up the promise of the old, good internet. In my next book, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Verso Books, Sept 5), I set out a program fro disenshittifying the internet:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

The book is up for pre-order on Kickstarter now, along with an independent, DRM-free audiobooks (DRM-free media is the content-layer equivalent of containerized services — you can move them into or out of any app you want):

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Meanwhile, Lina Khan, the FTC and the DoJ Antitrust Division are taking steps to halt the economic side of enshittification, publishing new merger guidelines that will ban the kind of anticompetitive merger that let Big Tech buy its way to glory:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/biden-administration-corporate-merger-antitrust-guidelines/674779/

The internet doesn’t have to be enshittified, and it’s not too late to disenshittify it. Indeed — the same forces that enshittified the internet — monopoly mergers, a privacy and labor free-for-all, prohibitions on user-side twiddling — have enshittified everything from cars to powered wheelchairs. Not only should we fight enshittification — we must.

Back my anti-enshittification Kickstarter here!

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad- free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/03/there-is-no-cloud/#only-other-peoples-computers

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