Part 12
Not so many years ago, before the Internet, networking was something that was done by a combination of letters, telephone calls and face-to-face communication. Back then, problems centered around who you could talk to and what you had of value to say or offer. Letters were letters, phones were phones and you could exchange real, live communication where the receiver usually knew who you were and you most certainly knew who you were trying to talk to. Even though that sounds simple, people actually got in touch with one another and a lot got done.
Now, with the introduction of the Internet, a whole new concept in communication seems to have developed. Called among other things “Social Media,” the lines that put us together have become crooked and, even though they’re a lot more powerful, they don’t always fulfil the definition of “social.” They relate more to technology, less to society and have become a combination of offshoot activities such as looking, talking, listening, commenting … often to no one … or everyone.
Let’s face it, the melody of two or more people’s voices drifting through the air on a lazy summer day or the concentrated reading of a letter just arrived in the post seems to have been crowded out by IP addresses, workstations, WiFi signals, hotspots, dings, swooshes and marimba chords announcing that someone wants your attention. We’re so barraged with incoming particles, like shrapnel during a bombing, that the very idea of “conversation” seems impossible.I realized this when I first noticed that ExoBrain is a “people computer.”
With an ExoBrain people are linked to one another. The ExoBrain thinks like a human, so it’s very social. A centralized MotherExoBrain links users all over the planet. Information received and stored by any ExoBrain can be shared with other ExoBrains if owners want to share it. They can set up clubs among themselves, stores, game-playing tournaments, you name it – now we’re talking social!
A huge amount of valuable information and countless activities can be built up and participated in by ExoBrain users.
Remember when you used to go to your relatives’ house for coffee on a weekend afternoon and sit and play cards or swap recipes? When half the family competed in backgammon and the rest shared ideas about how to raise funds for the local church? You can still do it. ExoBrain builds entire communities of real social networking.
Just to be clear, any user has the right to keep information personal and private, but when he wants to get “in communication,” he can. ExoBrain makes it easy and fun and helps build social networks that are genuine combinations of ideas and activities among real people who fulfill purposes and get something done.
The word that enters my mind for the entire ExoBrain and ExoTech system is “simple.” And in case you’d forgotten, simple isn’t at all bad. Even Steve Jobs said, “Simple can be harder than complex…But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
ExoTech can move mountains. It gets rid of the endless confusion in state-of-the-art computing and makes things simple again.
An ExoTech Ltd shareholder, Chris is currently authoring two of the four books to be published the day ExoBrain launches and has helped to create ExoBrain’s introductory video to the Confidential Technical Briefing. Chris has spent his working life in the film and television industry, starting with BBC Television in London, then ATV in Birmingham becoming, at the time, the youngest Studio Manager in Britain.
Later, in South Africa, he wrote and directed film and TV commercials, having four South African entries at the Cannes Advertising Festival. After a number of years of writing and directing or producing documentaries (eight international awards) and corporate videos, he concentrated on writing feature film screenplays (five screened) and television series (seven screened). He has a novel, ”Pursuit of Treachery,” with a literary agent and is currently obtaining finance for an action adventure feature film he has written and is co-producing. He is a published poet and has given many readings.