Sunday, October 09, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Political Technology Imagining #1 - Reality step #1 - Google PlayStore: VDP_Prototype_001
First I present a partial vision of a front-end.
Features or functionality has not been defined completely.
I know that there will be a tech language format not unlike the Health Industries HL7 file format. The communication mechanisms/relationship between many patients and a Doctor bears resemblance to a patient voter and elected official that think they can fix things.
More than willing to discuss this is a direction.
I know there will be a data exchange of those messages - as there are to HL7 messages.
For today, for those with current Android phones - I created a - do nothing/"Hello World" app and published it to the Google Playstore. It is free and available now. This is the first step. I now have the capability to publish to the Phone form factor world.
I used Android Studio and a YouTube tutorials.
The buttons do nothing - but I have control to create and publish
Reality step #2 is to start experimenting - This coming weekend or maybe even tomorrow, I will publish a functional buttons. - Hey what do you want for doing something before work.
Features or functionality has not been defined completely.
I know that there will be a tech language format not unlike the Health Industries HL7 file format. The communication mechanisms/relationship between many patients and a Doctor bears resemblance to a patient voter and elected official that think they can fix things.
More than willing to discuss this is a direction.
I know there will be a data exchange of those messages - as there are to HL7 messages.
For today, for those with current Android phones - I created a - do nothing/"Hello World" app and published it to the Google Playstore. It is free and available now. This is the first step. I now have the capability to publish to the Phone form factor world.
I used Android Studio and a YouTube tutorials.
The buttons do nothing - but I have control to create and publish
Reality step #2 is to start experimenting - This coming weekend or maybe even tomorrow, I will publish a functional buttons. - Hey what do you want for doing something before work.
Saturday, March 05, 2016
Poltical Technological Imagining #1
Here is the proposal. This is not all - just the tip of sword or iceberg
Imagining #1:
Setting #1: Your smartphone - to match my mental image - an Android Galaxy Note 5
Application #1: Pandora-like - Thumbs up/Thumbs Down as the platform.
Content#1: Public Political Snippets on the order of 2-3 min.
User Story #1: The User has 3 options when presented a question at the bottom (much like the title of a song - but longer) and the audio/visual is a candidates response to the question. The 3 options are No-Response, Yay, Nay. This is information about this is processed for consumption
The information is saved in an HL7 styled message. More on this later...
The end result is data can allow anonymous communications between the individual voter and then Candidates, Elected Officials, Medias, Lobbyists.
It is a form of a personal virtual debate forum that enables voter to track response and a personal platform of specific issues with responses.
Objective: Provide a political device to disable unproductive political rhetoric - like obstrsuctionism and confrontationalism. Putting power in the actual/physical hand of "We the People"
Remember this is an imaging of an undiscovered country.
See a mock ups below:
First a screen scrape from my phone - of Pandora
Then
1) Replace image of Jim Croce Album with a Candidate image
2) Note the functionality and placement of Advertisement for future reference
3) Replace "Time in a Bottle" with a question from a Reporter or a public Debate
Note: Both Republican and Democratic contenders are presented below:
Imagining #1:
Setting #1: Your smartphone - to match my mental image - an Android Galaxy Note 5
Application #1: Pandora-like - Thumbs up/Thumbs Down as the platform.
Content#1: Public Political Snippets on the order of 2-3 min.
User Story #1: The User has 3 options when presented a question at the bottom (much like the title of a song - but longer) and the audio/visual is a candidates response to the question. The 3 options are No-Response, Yay, Nay. This is information about this is processed for consumption
The information is saved in an HL7 styled message. More on this later...
The end result is data can allow anonymous communications between the individual voter and then Candidates, Elected Officials, Medias, Lobbyists.
It is a form of a personal virtual debate forum that enables voter to track response and a personal platform of specific issues with responses.
Objective: Provide a political device to disable unproductive political rhetoric - like obstrsuctionism and confrontationalism. Putting power in the actual/physical hand of "We the People"
Remember this is an imaging of an undiscovered country.
See a mock ups below:
First a screen scrape from my phone - of Pandora
Then
1) Replace image of Jim Croce Album with a Candidate image
2) Note the functionality and placement of Advertisement for future reference
3) Replace "Time in a Bottle" with a question from a Reporter or a public Debate
Note: Both Republican and Democratic contenders are presented below:
Thursday, March 03, 2016
In the coming weeks I am going to continue a thought experiment involving the technology in or at your hands and governing. It is time to see who is interested in finding an undiscovered country and being a pioneer. It is about a alternative that is not direct democracy. It does not involve me or anyone I know running for public office. A requirement involves using technology to govern in fashions or methods not yet publicly demonstrated...more to come in small portions (that's all that I have time for before work)
Sunday, February 28, 2016
After the last republican or conservative debate a couple of thoughts come to mind.
As surely as the Neo-Cons of the late 90's early 2000's were not my parents Republican party - seeing and hearing Donald Trump with Chris Christie make me half expect to see Snooki and JWoww come walking on stage.
Mind you - I am saying that Mr Trump, Mr Christie, Ms Snooki, Ms. JWoww have a place in American Pop Culture and I wish them well and all the best in their lives.
But it is hard not to think Republicans have traded "Neo-Cons" for the characters from the reality show "Jersey Shore".
They have traded "Darth Vader" (aka Dick Cheney) for "The Situation".
Perhaps the party has traded Republicans for Convervatives.
Let's be clear - we are talking about the "Anti-Politic" as per traditional conservative David Brooks.
Hillary may not be a better choice, but presidential campaign season is to be a season of articulation not entertainment. It is a season of "What If's".
If there is to be fiction and comparisons to TV genre's then we need political speech writer to create text that a society can say why not. Science Fiction at least gave us tech toys. Other than providing snippets for AFV - what has WWE or the "Jersey Shore" reality show inspired folks to do?
As surely as the Neo-Cons of the late 90's early 2000's were not my parents Republican party - seeing and hearing Donald Trump with Chris Christie make me half expect to see Snooki and JWoww come walking on stage.
Mind you - I am saying that Mr Trump, Mr Christie, Ms Snooki, Ms. JWoww have a place in American Pop Culture and I wish them well and all the best in their lives.
But it is hard not to think Republicans have traded "Neo-Cons" for the characters from the reality show "Jersey Shore".
They have traded "Darth Vader" (aka Dick Cheney) for "The Situation".
Perhaps the party has traded Republicans for Convervatives.
Let's be clear - we are talking about the "Anti-Politic" as per traditional conservative David Brooks.
Hillary may not be a better choice, but presidential campaign season is to be a season of articulation not entertainment. It is a season of "What If's".
If there is to be fiction and comparisons to TV genre's then we need political speech writer to create text that a society can say why not. Science Fiction at least gave us tech toys. Other than providing snippets for AFV - what has WWE or the "Jersey Shore" reality show inspired folks to do?
Thursday, October 29, 2015
There will come a time when existing technology is re-engineered to enable the power individual voter in ways not currently imagined. It will eliminate all of the worst characteristics of politics and preserve the best of the process. It will be a new layer. It will be - local, county, state, federal, media and then...?
We use technology to select mates. We let technology entertain us.It empowers us to manage our personal finances. Why not our voting/election process? Is it not a logical and reasoned progression?
There will come a time when political disagreements - large and small will be settled with emotional satisfaction for all participants. Future voters will effortlessly know history as surely as a NFL fan knows the trail their team got to the end of the season - Superbowl or not.
It will be standard and local. It will utilize personal hardware.
It will be recognized that the political attacks will done in the context of a competition that is standard and local.
It will allow for the presence and contributions of political parties and special interests/lobbyist as surely as sports require the contributions of non-players in the field of play.
It will be recognized that this age of politics will be considered medieval or dark ages in grand scale of maturation this young nation called America.
A time will come when we the people will say with a collective sigh of relief and acceptance and agree -- watch this space more to come
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Donald J Trump vs James T Kirk
Is it only obvious to me? There is a reason James T Kirk remained a Captain until this fictional char died.
There is a reason that the Rockefellers, Carnegie, Fords did not trade their chairs for one in the oval office.
They ultimately enjoyed what they were doing.
And a lesson repeated in fiction...absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Does Donald J Trump think the oval office as an ultimate or absolute power?
Is it possible Donald Trump no longer enjoys being a builder/businessman?
Sunday, November 02, 2014
With election day coming in a couple of days. I am inspired to write again. I have additional ideas. These are not new ideas or concepts. None of my suggestions have been. If there is a method or style I am simply looking at existing ideas with the intent to see it in a different perspective..
I have always like the use of the phrase "logic and reason". It was a way to understand a sequence in life or society. Even today's political process has a logic and reason to it's processes. Recently I have been listening to an audio version of Walter Isaacson's book "Innovators" during my 4:30 am 6 mile walks. I'm loving it. Mr Isaacson has eloquently captured how innovation works and is never actually one man. The innovations that he tracks, follows the growth of computers, internet and smartphones.
Success of a given innovation is marked by waves of agreements by populations. Almost word of mouth.
Perhaps with time, I will find more eloquent rhetoric to set the stage for the following suggestion.
For now I feel time is running short. Or perhaps it is a sensation time is being wasted and it can be seen in the political polls. There is going to be gridlock for the foreseeable future.
The Tea Party is fond of thinking "what would the founding fathers do?" How would they be handling today's environment. They are put on pedestals as if ordinary folks should not dare think like they did.
I focus on Ben Franklin. I try to think what would he have suggested had he read Walter Isaacson's "Innovators" And recently, one idea has presented it self. Data Exchanges are not new ideas to the information technology. However, I have been introduced to a particular form of data exchange that when I think of the nature of the sociology of the involved I find parallels in political terms. I try to "free associate" or improvise on the relationships between a Doctor, patient and others into political terms of power, control.
Is not the relationship between Dr/Patient have parallels to a Congressperson/Voter? In the end the Voter and the Patient have the power? Do not labs/hospitals have a parallel function as lobbyist/special interest groups?
Walter Isaacson pointed out that in the section about the internet and packet switching innovations was that it was a design that inherently resolves problems with data transmitting by make far more choices and decisions.
Let me repeat, and rephrase. No webpage hits 2 computers in the same path through the internet. It breaks it up and in the end resolves disputes to deliver the same messages to 2 computers.
For our political system do we all not want a process\system that does just that? Congress has bills that it votes on and the ordinary voter can't touch the process or easily influence it. A legislative bill is very similar to the same process of a webpage being broken into packets and being assembled into the final product.
What if the ordinary voter had access to a "something" that could be broken down into packets until such time as the proper numbers of voters assemble it. Imagine such a file layout protocol that has different sections. As the HL7 has a section for Patient information and then other sections for "Observations" or lab tests and results.
In a political edition, imagine a section that would start with FIS for fiscal impact.Within the one line,separate locations within for the different republican and democratic estimations and reasoning. Imagine every bill structured in the same way. Imagine a section for JUS or social justice?
Dr Ben Franklin (albeit an honorary title) might have seen the value to such a file had he known of the power internet to resolve issues during communication.
Now this is just the file layout. Go another step of imagination. Accept for a moment, as one suspends disbelief while watching science fiction character "Teleport" somewhere, that the layout is universal and common knowledge. In order for the process to work as the internet, that file will require small communities make adjustments to the file and the different sections. This a market and jobs are created to enable that manipulation and final assembly into a product to be accepted by traditional Congress or other legislative body
That's enough for now...As this is a blog I will follow on as life permits
I have always like the use of the phrase "logic and reason". It was a way to understand a sequence in life or society. Even today's political process has a logic and reason to it's processes. Recently I have been listening to an audio version of Walter Isaacson's book "Innovators" during my 4:30 am 6 mile walks. I'm loving it. Mr Isaacson has eloquently captured how innovation works and is never actually one man. The innovations that he tracks, follows the growth of computers, internet and smartphones.
Success of a given innovation is marked by waves of agreements by populations. Almost word of mouth.
Perhaps with time, I will find more eloquent rhetoric to set the stage for the following suggestion.
For now I feel time is running short. Or perhaps it is a sensation time is being wasted and it can be seen in the political polls. There is going to be gridlock for the foreseeable future.
The Tea Party is fond of thinking "what would the founding fathers do?" How would they be handling today's environment. They are put on pedestals as if ordinary folks should not dare think like they did.
I focus on Ben Franklin. I try to think what would he have suggested had he read Walter Isaacson's "Innovators" And recently, one idea has presented it self. Data Exchanges are not new ideas to the information technology. However, I have been introduced to a particular form of data exchange that when I think of the nature of the sociology of the involved I find parallels in political terms. I try to "free associate" or improvise on the relationships between a Doctor, patient and others into political terms of power, control.
Is not the relationship between Dr/Patient have parallels to a Congressperson/Voter? In the end the Voter and the Patient have the power? Do not labs/hospitals have a parallel function as lobbyist/special interest groups?
Walter Isaacson pointed out that in the section about the internet and packet switching innovations was that it was a design that inherently resolves problems with data transmitting by make far more choices and decisions.
Let me repeat, and rephrase. No webpage hits 2 computers in the same path through the internet. It breaks it up and in the end resolves disputes to deliver the same messages to 2 computers.
For our political system do we all not want a process\system that does just that? Congress has bills that it votes on and the ordinary voter can't touch the process or easily influence it. A legislative bill is very similar to the same process of a webpage being broken into packets and being assembled into the final product.
What if the ordinary voter had access to a "something" that could be broken down into packets until such time as the proper numbers of voters assemble it. Imagine such a file layout protocol that has different sections. As the HL7 has a section for Patient information and then other sections for "Observations" or lab tests and results.
In a political edition, imagine a section that would start with FIS for fiscal impact.Within the one line,separate locations within for the different republican and democratic estimations and reasoning. Imagine every bill structured in the same way. Imagine a section for JUS or social justice?
Dr Ben Franklin (albeit an honorary title) might have seen the value to such a file had he known of the power internet to resolve issues during communication.
Now this is just the file layout. Go another step of imagination. Accept for a moment, as one suspends disbelief while watching science fiction character "Teleport" somewhere, that the layout is universal and common knowledge. In order for the process to work as the internet, that file will require small communities make adjustments to the file and the different sections. This a market and jobs are created to enable that manipulation and final assembly into a product to be accepted by traditional Congress or other legislative body
That's enough for now...As this is a blog I will follow on as life permits
Thursday, July 04, 2013
A Flash of a....
But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence>
"If there is
something wrong those who have the ability to take action have the
responsibility to take action". -
character Ben Gates/Actor Nicholas Cage - National Treasure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPiXax0S3vY
From: Voter Decision
Project
To personally: Former Congressman James C. Greenwood, Dr James R Greenwood, Dr. Scott Robertson of Drexel author of " Voter-centered design: to a voter decision support system", Ramy Hasan
To:
CEO Zain Khan of IConstituent, CEO Keya
(Jayaram) Dannenbaum of NextElect and President Barack Obama
A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create
a new market and value network, and
eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few
years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in
business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a
product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by
designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by
lowering prices in the existing market.
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation>
A
proposition: Initiate a sequence to develop a "government-to-constituent communications and citizen
engagement" via technology to be sponsored by the People of Egypt and of
the People of the United States for the future security of the People. Whether
Egyptian or American - a technological voter centered designed can be created
to develop a new market.
A currently
hypothetical Bill of Rights in Egypt and the American Bill of Rights can be
different in content.
They can utilize a
common technological open source platform to be developed without giving up
sovereignty or disrupting current governance until ready.
The need is to
create a new business/corporate citizen and marketplace and technological tools
for the People to develop the content of
governance - like a Bill of Rights
The act to sign on
to such an effort is an act of a volunteer to be a pioneer and explore an
"undiscovered country"
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Here is the Drudge headline: Yelling "Fire" or Opening "Fire" - Choice for politicians?
I am not as smart as
James
Holmes based on academic records.
There is a value there that I believe cuts across political spectrums.
The extremes of conservatives and liberals know this value
The extremes of those who say yes and those who say know
The extremes of those who for us and against usThere are restrictions on the 1st Amendment.
100 years ago changes
to the body politic and law were starting due to the sinking of the Titanic -
1500 lives were lost.
The changes made were considered irrelevant because the body politic did not make a decision about the reasonablness of "Unsinkable"
Waste is defined in terms of time, energy, money lives lives to name a few.
I want to ask the question why can't we find a method of body politic change and law change to think in advance?
Unfortunately I have known the answer - it is the refusal to compromise.
We all know it and it happens on both sides of all political spectrums.
We have video-gamers that are doing this very kind of thing in virtual worlds.
Perhaps society can do more to enable good things to cross over from virtual or movie realms into common-sense reality.
I only achieved a BA
and do not have a masters.
I am a student of
politics and the body politic.
I am a student of
technology,
Can we allow
ourselves to find a good from this horror?
Yes.
Everytime a
plane crashes for reasons not immediately apparent and hundreds of lives are
lost, much time and effort is put into finding the cause and repairing the
technology, changing the flight rules or the business policies. Those subsequent
changes are "Good". They will and do prevent future loss of life and pain. There is a value there that I believe cuts across political spectrums.
The extremes of conservatives and liberals know this value
The extremes of those who say yes and those who say know
The extremes of those who for us and against usThere are restrictions on the 1st Amendment.
One cannot yell
"Fire" when there is no danger, in a crowded movie theatre.
This is a "Good"
thing
The founding fathers should have written
this out. They knew of theatres.
There probably were horrorific fires in
crowded early American theaters.
But they didn't write it in the constitution
or even as an amendment.
So is this
relevant?
There have
changes in the body politic and laws made from such
events.
The changes made were considered irrelevant because the body politic did not make a decision about the reasonablness of "Unsinkable"
New Jersey made changes for Megan Kanka - or known as
Megan's Law.
The changes made were
considered irrelevant because the body politic did not make a decision about how
to treat sex offenders.
This
sequence or horror then law does not have to be a status
quo.
There is a
common-sense about the illogic of waste. Waste is defined in terms of time, energy, money lives lives to name a few.
I want to ask the question why can't we find a method of body politic change and law change to think in advance?
Unfortunately I have known the answer - it is the refusal to compromise.
We all know it and it happens on both sides of all political spectrums.
It stems from a fear
of the unknown. Change is the nexus of "before" and "after".
There is also a
common-sense about fixing things that are not broken - don't do
it.
The only salve for
the tension that comes with change is the common-sense about the reversal the
change - going back to the way things were.
They say Thomas
Edison didn't fail many times to invent the light bulb.
The folktale is that
he found 2000 ways NOT to make a light bulb - in addition to the one that
worked.
They say that it
takes 10,000 hours of practice and literally anyone can be a virtuoso
musician,
Is there a number of
hours or a number of political choices to make a virtuoso American
citizen?We have video-gamers that are doing this very kind of thing in virtual worlds.
Perhaps James Holmes
enabled evil to cross from a virtual or movie realm into a common-sense
reality.
Perhaps society
enabled James Holmes at different stages of his life - it only seems possibly.
Remember,
I'm not an expert on much.Perhaps society can do more to enable good things to cross over from virtual or movie realms into common-sense reality.
Is there some kind
of combination of historical sequence, technology, blogs, political talk, radio
opinions, laws and common behaviors that can be developed such that it allows
2nd Amendment but prevents James Holmes.
Is this something we are going to leave to
our politicians and political pundits to resolve?
There are tools, method and technology that
are developing. Voter centered decision support is one concept among many.
Only if the body politic allows itself to
visualise the future can it learn from the past. Only if the body politic
allows itself to learn from the past, decide when it is time to change, can it
visualise the future.
Remember, we
are the country that put Armstrong on the moon, invented the
internet.
American politics needs an inventive mindset in approaching thoughts and
discussions of James Holmes and firearm
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