Shirtless on a horse while corruption, mortality rates and GDP plummet
Almost dismissed on the world scene – even in sports
Your last and only world class station, your military machine, humiliated
Proven to be as rotten as the rest of it
The final arrow in your quill, all that’s left of the decadent empire
Is the launch code to a rusting nuclear arsenal, that may or may not work as expected
In the hands of a KGB assassin, a psychopath who would poison a man and his daughter with polonium
Unadmired, alone, turning your people to Iran, North Korea
Then sitting rather stupidly, like Chaplin as the Great Dictator, at the end of a very long table
An ugly morphing into the Tolstoian fool; an impeccably dressed general with not a whit or a clue
Staring intensely at the big board in the war room, the chess of heroes
Grand decisions to take the breath away
But comically failing to see the farce
The chess pieces are really not chess pieces at all
They are rotting hors–d’oeuvres left over’s from the Tsar’s last meals
And all this folly at a moment of choosing that could not be worse
In the millions of years it took humanity to get to now our flame may never before have flickered so perilously
And you Putin, you embarrassment to humanity
Instead of bringing Russia to a bearing towards the salvation of that flame
Joining the comity of nations to address the difficulties ahead
Bringing the genius of your people to the table
You man idiot run out on the stage and shit yourself
An awful stench, a big mess to clean up
So now instead of the great global transition out of carbon
Instead of windmills, solar farms, smart grids, nuclear arms deals, a cure for cancer, solving AI and a hundred other things to bring hope back to humanity and our children,
We are driven to the brink of the madness of a new arms race
Wasted treasure, wasted ingenuity, wasted genius, wasted time and the lost esprit de corps that comes from working together on a just cause
Imagine, we are back to stockpiling weapons for WW3
Trust over IP is is huge, sufficiently mature and the first ToIP apps will be arriving this fall.
Wow.
First out the door will be covid passports, AND largely without government participation or endorsement – (its just moving too fast for gov to possibly be in a position to contribute).
Like GPS or Android this infrastructure “gift” to humanity will be put into open source “orbit” and the world will be invited to explore and exploit. I am certain that ToIP usage will go viral. Its the juxtaposition of a damn good idea and perfect timing.
Proof of concept will be private Covid vaccine passports out late summer 2021 by way of Microsoft or Facebook et al and not tied to any gov service BUT secure, authoritive and very effective. QED.
Governments around the world will be taken aback but they wont stand in the way as cruise lines can finally indemnify themselves from legal repercussions by way of digital proof of vaccination which these ToIP passports will offer.
And this will open the floodgates.
ToIP is designed to go way beyond passports.. to enable a previously unimagined trust ecosystem. Think of that.
From physical things to ideas and intellectual property, to commercial contracts and supply chains, provenance tracking, self authentication resumes, fintech transactions and NFTs (non fungible tokens). Things, trusting things, trusting things in complex computational chains that will transcend the commercial and social ceilings that we have forever presumed as limits. It truly beggars the imagination.
And like all good frameworks today ToIP is open source! taking lessons learned from how the Internet with its RFCs and Linux with its hierarchical meritocracy were built under effective open source licensing.
Bottom line is that real mobile covid passports will be here by the fall and they will spearhead a flood of unimaginable trust architectures based on peer to peer (distributed) trust nets built over blockchains anchors.
Note that ToIP is a “dual stack” – A REALLY GOOD IDEA.
Stack one – the “driven” stack – is a TCP-IP like model for laying out the technical details of how how the whole thing works. Stack two – the “driving”! stack – describes “governance”. Blew me away to see that.
The governance stack is a lesson learned from the Internet fiasco. For all of its fabulous successes the Internet has been a social, legal, security and privacy disaster. ToIP builds these considerations into the protocol.
Anyway – in a nut shell, ToIP is reason #442 to wonder wtf is going to happen in the next decade.
If you’re interested, here is a short intro. The basic concept is well presented (let me know if you find better) BUT cover your ears towards the end when he shows his cards as a Q-Anon style conspiracy theorist.
I now have hundreds to thousands of high resolution photos of RR graffiti taken all over US and Canada. As a rough guess I would say that 90% of the stuff you see on the cars is unartistic junk or even plane out vandalism.
Most RR graffiti is tagging of some sort. Like a signature practiced over and over again slowly begins to distinguish itself, tagging is visual nom de plume. They are mostly text based and largely resolved from a narrow repertoire of post modern “Kaiser zeit Gotisch” fonts all tangled up in competing and suggestively (but rarely successfully) ambiguous layers. Like a good signature, a graffiti work will vary with each iteration. I have seem the work below done with mods on at least one other car..
The Game of Life is Touring complete (I did not know that).. and you can actually see it here .. towards the end of this elegant video on the inherent weaknesses of mathematics … the GoL running itself.
Regarding my thoughts on the matters at hand.. got an hour? 🙂
Briefly it’s this: Covid is a most suitable start to the 2020’s – the torrid twenties. This will be a decade of maturing exponential events racing to contain humanity. This pandemic is just the first exponential to get out of the bag. It was promised by epidemiologists and, well, they have also promised more to come.
Also promised: climate change (humanities GREAT reckoning) , cyber war, AI escapes the machine, the human population time bomb explodes, species collapse goes over a cliff and massive destabilizations of global biomass including insects and plankton, the great financial correction.
On the other side of the coin we have an exponential curve in scientific advances to fight back. I honestly feel that this will be the most frightening and the most exciting and wondrous decade of my life.
So I think Covid19 may be a blessing.
Covid19 is an alarm clock waking us to our own frailty on this planet and our profound connection to nature which we are killing. Think we have the collective muster to heed the ring? More practically speaking, for now, it starts with awareness.. AND a serious (revenue neutral) carbon tax!
