Project PM Update #1

There is always an overlapping series of gaps between the development of a technology and the realization of the various ends for which it may be used. This is particularly true when the technology involved is as multi-faceted and revolutionary as the internet has proven to be. At the same time, the nature of the internet is such that these gaps have been extraordinarily short and fast-arriving. If we see the history of the wheel on a timeline, with each new application represented by a horizontal line, we see perhaps a dozen collected around its arrival a few thousand years ago, some dozen more spread out across the next thousand years and often grouped together in clumps, and then a sudden and more intense grouping over the past two centuries. If we take a similar look at the brief history of the internet, we see a rather more concentrated and continual clump of horizontal lines at the beginning - one which quickly develops into a black bar, and which will remain so as the timeline extends into the future.

Never in human history would so much terminology of the present have been incomprehensible to everyone on earth just a few decades prior. The conditions that has made this so - the rise of the internet and associated communications technologies - remain in play, and in fact seem to have sped up as a larger degree of humanity contributes to an ever-increasing foundation of information which in turn influences that same degree of

There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. With this objective, we set out on our review of the spectrum of significant experiences and seek therein for the greatest meanings as well as for the family of generalized principles governing the realization of their optimum significance to humanity

As Korzybski, the founder of general semantics, pointed out, the consequence of its single-tagging is that the rose becomes reflexively considered by man only as a red, white, or pink device for paying tribute to a beautiful girl, a thoughtful hostess, or last night's deceased acquaintance. The tagging of the complex biological process under the single title rose tends to detour human curiosity from further differentiation of its integral organic operations as well as from consideration of its interecological functionings aboard our planet. We don't know what a rose is, nor what may be its essential and unique cosmic function. Thus for long have we inadvertently deferred potential discovery of the essential roles in Universe that are performed complementarily by many, if not most, of the phenomena we experience. But, goaded by youth, we older ones are now taking second looks at almost everything. And that promises many ultimately favorable surprises. The oldsters do have vast experience banks not available to the youth. Their memory banks, integrated and reviewed, may readily disclose generalized principles of eminent importance.