State of the ExoNation, Christmas 2022

Posted January 3, 2023, under State of the ExoNation

1. Steven Jobs: “You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

The simplicity you recently saw in the exhibition of ExoBrain III’s functionality at Milestone 3 has been very hard to achieve – but it’s able to move mountains!

When you get in a car today and push a button to make it start instantly, you don’t think for a moment about the millions of man hours and thousands of inventions that went into simplifying the ten-mile-an-hour car of the 1890s (that took forever to start) into the instant-starting car of today. Yet it was worth it, because those cars, and their ability to get anyone and anything from point A to point B in a fraction of the time it took before, became a major turning point in history and powered the Third Industrial Revolution. They helped create an acceleration of output and unprecedented, sustained, international growth and an increase in personal wealth that the airplane took even further.

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2. In watching this Milestone 3 show of our technology, you have been part of a historic moment.

If you had been there at Kitty Hawk to watch as the Wright Flyer and its single passenger staggering 120 feet across a field chased by its anxious creators at five miles an hour you SHOULD have predicted that the Wright Flyer’s sons and daughters would today be flying four and a half BILLION passengers for thousands of BILLIONS of miles every YEAR at a HUNDRED times faster than the Wright Flyer. If you HAD correctly predicted that, you would have become very wealthy indeed, and perhaps your name would have been Mr. Boeing.

If you had been there and looked at the very first car as it wobbled along the road at ten miles an hour you SHOULD have predicted that today, there would be one and a half BILLION of its sons and daughters driving thousands of BILLIONS of miles every year at a speed TEN times faster. If you HAD correctly predicted that, you would have become very wealthy indeed, and perhaps your name would have been Mr. Benz. That’s the Benz of Mercedes Benz.

Now, TODAY, if you DO correctly predict, based on what you have seen here today, perhaps your name WILL be the Mr. Boeing or the Mr. Benz of the future. That door is open to you….

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3. What is it that cars and planes actually do that has so boosted world prosperity?

Increased power can be generated by increasing the acceleration of people, goods, communication and information.

So, the faster that these flow, and the more of them that are flowing, the more power is generated and the more wealth is created.

Planes and cars speed up and increase the movement of people.

Computers speed up and increase the speed of communication and information.

And ExoBrains – with language control – speed up communication at a greater rate than ordinary computers can ever do.

How do they do that?

It has been observed that the imposition of intermediate actions or barriers (things that get in the way of where you want to go) can create a reduction in the rate of motion.

And in the world of computers, that equates to having to do something you DO NOT want to do while you are on the way to doing what you DO want to do.

And, in today’s computing, there are an AWFUL LOT of things you have to do – that you do NOT want to have to do – in order to do what you WANT to do.

Now in ALL the things that our team just showed you, can you remember ONE SINGLE STEP they had to do that was not absolutely necessary? Even one?

NOW … THAT is simplicity!

By actual test, language-controlled ExoBrains reduce the number of steps you do NOT want to do by 80% to 95%. The more complex the order, the more dramatically the steps are reduced.

The flip side of that is that language control that makes complex orders possible that you would never have the time, the patience or even the knowledge to get your computer to do today. For example, in the future sending a spreadsheet directly from your computer to your smartphone and back again – or from your computer to your wife’s smartphone – directly and not through email.

So, the bottom line is that because language-controlled ExoBrains speed up communication enormously – just as much as cars and planes DO – their power will be enormous and there will also be billions of them everywhere pretty soon.

Just how many billions we will review shortly. First let’s look at the rest of what we’ve gotten done this past year.

The Rest of the Year in Review

You’ve just seen what the Tech Team has accomplished during the past year to kick down the considerable barriers to language control – over two hundred and fifty showstoppers identified years ago that have been blocking the tech giants of this world for so many years. Here are some of the other things accomplished over the last year.

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4. Some Statistics

	A year ago	Today	% Increase
Number on the ExoTeam	369	636	+72%
Average hours worked / month	4,750	7,000	+47%
Average weekly investment	$30,000	$60,000	+100%
Number on Staff
Full-time		17
Part-time		18
Full-time equivalent		26
Ratio of Tech to Admin Staff		1.8:1

5. Accomplishments

In the last year we have built a very strong and resilient, company policy-driven organization in which there are now almost no single points of failure left, and all concerned are to be congratulated that the organization has surpassed a major milestone in the life of any organization that it has to achieve in order to be viable; namely, that this year it became self-sustaining.

As I look across the panorama of the year gone by, I see six outstanding pillars of achievement rising out of the boiling golden cauldron of ExoProduction:

1. Sam Worthingzen who, in the course of three intensive weeks, created our last five years’ accounts and prepared us for an audit to international standards, an audit he will see us through in the new year so that ExoTech Ltd can eventually be listed on the Bermuda Mezzanine Stock Exchange.
2. Bruce Rigney who has continued to be extraordinarily productive and one of the key pillars who sustains this organization.
3. Shawn Denning who, along with his investment team, have raised enough funds to keep us expanding and producing in a fashion that no other company we know of can match. His team is working tirelessly to reach the investment level the company needs to fully meet its expectations.
4. Jed Rigney who, after five months of full-time study, has understood the Data Relation Table and its mechanisms – the skeletal core of ExoBrain on which all else depends – to a sufficient extent that he has now taken over full responsibility for it from me.
5. Shirley Corriveau and Al Baker. Shirley’s team, with the cooperation and help of others, has created stunning materials and – with the incomparable supervision of the Training Manager Al Baker – has created incredible training products of a kind not seen before on Earthand have trained ExoDesigners and ExoEngineers who can do things no one else on Earth can do.
6. Jeff Buhrt who, this past year, has jumped us five years ahead of where I ever expected to be at this time in a creating a core of the ExoBrain, a new computing language and a completely new way of doing computing that renders 95% of today’s technology redundant and archaic. In addition, he has ensured we are only using technology that is freely available and under nobody’s control. When the dust has settled, Jeff will be recognized as the computing genius of the century. No words can do justice to what he has achieved.

The Future

So where do we go from here?

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6. Voice Recognition

A new challenge jumped onto our plate very recently when we discovered that today’s state-of-the-art Voice Recognition technology is NOT as capable as we had thought.

In fact, to correctly output the words it heard even 95% of the time, the best “state-of-the-art” Voice Recognition software has to have many factors in place and, if they are not, the percentage of words correctly recognized drops very quickly – to as low as 50%. Whereas humans rarely make mistakes when listening to one another, today’s Voice Recognition software makes nonsensical mistakes a laughable amount of the time – as anyone who has pushed Siri or Alexa to their limits soon finds out.

Today’s Voice Recognition shows all the signs of being fundamentally wrong in its basic conception (just as today’s way of computing is) and is not at all ready for prime time. It is not ready to be bundled with an ExoBrain and shipped out ready to go and use. It is clear we have to solve that and rework it from a clean sheet of paper if we are to provide ExoBrains with a plug-and-play ability to listen to whatever you tell it and have it understand what you said to it just as most humans understand what others say to them.

You might not expect that ExoTech would be able to solve problems as different from one another as handling data the way people do and correctly identifying the words they say to one another. Yet, the more we look at the two problems, the more we see their solutions have much in common – the things they have in common being the very same key principles that make ExoTech work. I suppose it is not surprising that, if certain key principles govern how people handle data, the same key principles turn out to be how people handle verbalized data so as to correctly identify the words spoken to them.

Solving this and bringing it to an industrial-strength, plug-and-play solution before launch is likely to add perhaps $15–$25 million to the cost and will increase the effort we will have to expend. However, we are very confident that we know how to bring this to the ExoLaunch pad in time to help ExoBrain to fly even faster.

Milestone 4. Fully Language-Controlled Personal ExoBrain Basic Edition

Personal ExoBrain Basic is the edition that we start with, the edition that is the foundation of all other editions and all other ExoBrain products. It will do most of most people’s computing with full everyday language control of the computer itself in the English language only. We will provide it with keyboard and mouse control only in as many other languages as we can afford to at launch time.

This version will comprehensively control the computer with language, but the content of communications, documents and the Internet won’t be controllable with normal everyday language as that will require much more comprehensive language control. The Basic Edition will do a lot of what Microsoft Office, Facebook, Twitter and a number of other popular programs do – but do it all in one place and all under language control.

We expect to have Personal ExoBrain Basic Edition done within 12 months of achieving sufficient funding; and the reason it depends on funding is entirely the question of training and the cost of training and the time that requires.

In the past year, we have made incredible and dramatic advances on training ExoEngineers and ExoDesigners.

Our materials have continued to be formalized into top-quality manuals which are in various stages of development. Comprised of 14 volumes, these materials are accompanied by study checklists to ensure that students can apply what they have learned. This past year our team has trained a number of ExoEngineers and ExoDesigners with spectacular results. We now have the experience to know that it takes us five months of full-time training to create a knowledgeable ExoEngineer or ExoDesigner who is ready to embark on the next step – a hands-on Apprenticeship that makes someone who can do things no others can do. It is a bit like training doctors and surgeons where only witch doctors existed before.

We have often been asked, “Why so much concentration on training?” The simple yet astounding answer is that we face the same problems that have been faced by ALL people throughout history who created any major shift in reality in any important subject.

Those problems are: incorrect existing technology and fixed ideas, plus vested interests in maintaining the status quo for monetary and other reasons. So, our training program has to be TOUGH and THOROUGH – and it has to produce the RESULTS that will bring about a new reality in the subject of computing.

We have approximately 50 people already in various stages of training on a volunteer basis. They study most if not all of the following:

• ExoManual 1 – Four volumes which cover theory, application tools and practical knowhow
• ExoManual 2 – Six additional volumes that cover every advanced topic needed by an ExoEngineer or ExoDesigner, and by those staff who support their activities
• ExoManual 3 – The very confidential Implementation Volume
• ExoManual 4 – Top secret information on Meaning Processing, the ground-breaking information that allows a computer to emulate the way a human handles information
• ExoManual 5 – Over 30 advanced lectures and their transcripts in two separate volumes

Once a student has graduated from their course room studies, they are then put through their paces on the apprenticeship. When a student completes that, the Quality Director and the Chief Technical Officer (for Engineers) and the ExoBrain Design In Charge (for ExoDesigners) must attest that a student is a fully competent graduate.

Lastly, I must approve each individual candidate for certification.

THIS is how we ENSURE – on the technical side – the future of ExoTech.

But good people are expensive, and it costs about $50,000 each to train them (and that is without the cost of the Tech people who train them). To get Milestone 4 done, we need at least 10 new technical trainees and that means $500,000 and 5 months to train them and another $700,000 ($1,200,000 in total without support personnel) to cover their first year of production and get Personal ExoBrain Basic edition completed. In fact, we really need and could easily utilize twice that number (we have 48 tech and another 36 admin people waiting in the wings to come on board full-time as soon as we can afford them) and that alone would cost $2.4 million.

It has been our inability to raise that quantity of funds over the last year with which to employ and train the people we need that has resulted in our targets to achieve Milestone 3 (now done) and Milestone 4 sliding further into the future and landing up where they are now.

While we have many expressions of intent to fund us to the extent we need in order to build things at the speed at which we are capable, we do not have the money in the bank, and our hope now is that some of you, seeing the proof of what we have achieved, will step up to the plate and help us go to where are capable of taking this.

Milestone 5. Personal ExoBrain Complete Edition, Mobile ExoBrain
and Business ExoBrain Basic Edition

These are the launch products which (like all our planned products) are fully explained in the Business Plan and further explained in the individual Product Specification Documents that are available to all ExoTeam members. Completing these and the preparations for launch that proceed in parallel will cost about $135 million and take about a year – all of which is fully described in the Business Plan.

By the time we launch, ExoTech Ltd itself will be running its own business 100% on Business ExoBrains – a process that will start in the second half of next year.

Specialist ExoBrains running everything from dental practices to knitting machines will come next and be followed by ExoBrains running machine tools and robots after that.

And, let’s not forget, there will be ExoBrains of all types that speak multiple languages and translate everything they know automatically between those languages.

But it will go further than just that…

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7. Should We Be Saying Trillions of ExoBrains?

Today there’s a lot of talk about IoT – Internet of Things.

We believe that term is not quite right. We think it should be the IoE – Internet of ExoBrains.

That is because today – in the way that is typical of everything in the tech world today – the “things” don’t talk too much to other “things” outside their own domains.

For example, the gizmo in your light bulb will probably talk to your smartphone. But your smartphone won’t talk to your laptop and neither of them will talk to your accounts program to tell you how much electricity it and its friends have used this month and absolutely none of them talk to the purchasing program (that does not even exist today) to tell it to order another one next month. The car does not talk to the dealership to book a service for some time next month when your calendar in your laptop told them you are free for a day or two.

None of them are talking to the others.

Perhaps the IoT should be called the IoTT – the Internet of Tongue-Tied devices!

ExoBrains are not Tongue Tied!

As you just saw:

• One Tic Tac Toe talks to another
• The Tic Tac Toe of One ExoBrain talks to the Tic Tac Toe of a different ExoBrain
• One calculator talks to another
• The calculator talks to the phone
• The phone could perfectly well talk to Tic Tac Toe and
• The Notebook could talk to any of them and to any Notebook in any ExoBrain.

Anywhere.

In fact, in the ExoWorld, ANY ExoBrain can talk to ANY ExoBrain as an intrinsic part of what it is and does.

As we envision it:

• Every wheel, every lock, every device in every car will have its own micro-ExoBrain and the ExoCarBrain will communicate with them all and know what is going on everywhere. So you can expect messages like:
  
  “There’s a gas station coming up in five miles, so you’d better pull in and gas-up there, because we don’t have enough gas to get to the next one beyond that without going four miles out of our way. While you are at it, the left rear tire needs some air.” Or,
  
  “The dealership has a slot for my next service on the 24th when you are otherwise free. It will take most of the day and they will lend you a car for the day. The expected cost is $193.39 including tax and that fits within your financial planning (ExoAccounting has it noted and says you can afford it) – can I go ahead and book it?”
• Every seat and every one of the thousands of monitoring points on a plane and all its dials and engines and switches will each have their own little ExoBrain chips and the ExoPlaneBrain will talk to and monitor them all. It will also continuously talk to the company’s ExoMaintenanceExoBrain at the plane’s destination, so that when the plane arrives at its gate, mechanics will be there with all they need to fit the replacement altimeter – that device that tells them how high they are – that had a glitch four hundred and eighty-two miles after it left New York.

By the time we launch, we expect to have a printer that has its own ExoBrain which talks to your ExoBrain with the result that you can give the ExoBrain in your computer verbal orders for the printer such as:

• “Print this document both sides in color, and I need three extra copies of page 9, please.”
• “Oh! and send a copy to my home ExoBrain and tell it to print me three copies, and to my wife’s ExoBrain and tell it to print her one copy.”

(How many clicks would THAT take if you tried to do it conventionally? Oh, silly question! You can’t even do it conventionally. Silly me!)

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8. How do we get to there from here?

Glad you asked!

THAT is where YOU come in!

HAVE A VERY WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW YEAR!

Peter Warren,
Chief Executive Officer
ExoTech Ltd

The State of The ExoNation video is an expanded version of this article located at:
https://exotech.bm/exonation-2022/

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