Shellah
The ExoBrain II Demonstration Videos. It was very helpful to see ExoBrain II in action and get a walk-through of the ExoTech terminology and functionality. I was glad I had the earlier Confidential Technical Briefings under my belt and the 31-page issue on Discovery and Design.
It is clear that ExoTech can truly put personal computing into the hands of the whole world. I have trained computer-illiterate people and it is quite a struggle. You start to realize just how much you’ve learned, how much you have come to know about how computers and applications work when you are trying to help someone who is struggling with what a mouse does, how to attach a document to an email, how to install or download something and actually find it again, what those cryptic symbols (icons) actually mean, how to hover and make the now invisible three-dots or magnifying glass appear again, how to ignore all the advertising and irrelevant information plastered on a page and find the part you actually want them to work on…
I am not a geek, not a techie, but I have used computers in my office and business work since the days of the Commodore 64 (1982). Uninformed, one could think the ExoBrain to be simplistic and nothing new. As I watched the videos, I could think of many similar “equivalents” that I had used in today’s technology. For example, “make it look any way you want.” Oh, yes, one thinks, that’s “skins” or “themes” that one can do in many software applications. No. By better understanding the underlying technology (that is demonstrated here without slick graphics or animation), one grasps the unlimited nature of Any-to-Any machines and the “Lego bricks” concept of independent units of interlocking data made infinitely flexible and functional with the Data Relational Table and the rest of the architecture.
It is the difference between the mud and weaving used to make grass huts versus the drawing compass and keystone which (simple as they are) built towering, arched, stone cathedrals.
In its final form, ExoBrain can rescue the planet. At one point in the video presentation, the viewer is invited to take a look at the absurdity of using the likes of a menu tree in order to select, request and trigger an action in another person, in the way that we use these dropdown menus to select and trigger an action in computers. In a flash, I saw that the technology of ExoTech is indeed making computers human-like which is in direct opposition to today’s technology which is stampeding humans into become machines. The dark forces that monopolize today’s computer technology glorify the idea of computers and humans becoming one but, really, the plan is to subsume and erase the individual, making the machine supreme.
The truth is, it is the person who is supreme, and always will be. Computers will never become human but if they can become truly human-like they can be controlled by humanity – not the other way round, where the computers control humanity…and a very elite few control the computers.
The ExoTechnology means each person retains one’s own data, instead of it being owned, controlled, censored, hacked, and surveilled by Big Brother (NSA, CIA, FBI, CDC) and Big Tech (Google, YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Zoom, Skype, MailChimp). One isn’t at the mercy of these apps if one wants to form groups, buy and sell, publish, communicate, share links and information…or even improve on the app itself.
From the videos: “There will be millions of different ExoFaceBooks as human creativity goes to work on it with everybody trying to outdo one another.”
“ExoBrain has the ability for everyone to unleash their creativity and desire for individuality, and do so in the sphere of computing, where it has been totally blocked until now. “
It is our reason (ability to compute) that makes Man different from animals or machines. While one wolf may have the nature of any other wolf, the nature of any individual person is unique and different from any other person. Therefore, the unimpeded freedom to exercise one’s faculties – one’s individual reason and creativity — in pursuit of survival (happiness) is the way we advance as a species. Obstructing this is not only slavery, it is the death of the individual AND the species. Putting personal computing – and the comm lines of the world (peer-to-peer direct communication) — into the hands of the masses of the people unleashes this creativity and productivity. Probably world peace too.