Inspirations after watching the Obama-McCain debate on 2008-10-15
After watching the Obama-McCain presidential candidate debate this evening (via BBC yet, lacking a TV here in Ephrata, WA, but having high speed fiber internet) my thoughts are:
First, re the health insurance issues, indeed "an ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure"; the obesity epidemic very likely is tied to the use of MSG in food, therefore, there needs to be a general ban on its use in food for all manufacturers and other food suppliers such as restaurants, including MSG use by any of its other names: ban monosodium glutamate from being in any foods. This could involve some amplification of whole-person studies already done re the breakdown products of MSG in the body and what they do to the neuromuscular system, as well as the problem of eating more than necessary, which is the purpose of MSG, to sell more food by causing people to eat more than needed for health, thus more business and profit for the food suppliers but at the cost of overweight in the consumers. And another health cost-effective approach is to form a fully objective evaluation system for evaluating alternative health protocols; for example, one such protocol system involves the use of the small electrical signals long utilized by experimenters using the Rife and HRClark technologies (which have a long history of suppression by the rival pharmaceutical business industries, unfortunately for the well being of the people of this nation); my personal experimentation with them for the past dozen years indicates there is much merit in them as very cost-effective preventive and healing systems for many health issues, saving enormous money and time; yet somehow the business territory claims of conventional medicine suppliers needs to be appropriately adapted, going instead for what really works overall best for people, and also finding new useful employment for those skilled health field workers which will become surplus thereby.
Second, re education, I would suggest very intense looking into the use of the internet and television for educational purposes, since the classroom setting is not necessarily the optimum educational medium for all subject material; we learn quite well by example's set before us. For an obvious example, programming of televisised educational shows could be like Sesame Street for adults too; imagine enjoying learning calculus that way. And the interactive potentials of the internet and web browser technology has enormous potential for designing online course material where problems are shown, ways to solve the problem are shown, then problems are shown to the student and the student's answers evaluated online as to adequacy and where necessary new problems and their solutions are put before the student until the student gets it right, every time. Learning course material could then make every student an "A+" student; some will learn faster than others, but then there will be no missing pieces as in a "C" grade education. However, the computer screen display still has some quirks that need to be resolved or bypassed in such education; the well-known differences between paper versus computer screen, even the LCD screens. Artists still have to make an initial artwork on paper, then use the computer to create it digitally; somehow it does not work well when trying to do creative art directly onscreen, ask the artists. And similarly for "left brain rational" data input, the on screen display still has a problem needing analysis and resolution, which I, as an excellent speller from childhood, puzzle over, a demonstrable and repeatable phenomenon that I can compose and write online and go back and correct my spelling - if unassisted by the spellcheck, of course - and the paper will look spelled correctly to me; but if I then print it out onto paper, and look at it, almost invariably my eyes will spot more spelling errors almost instantly, ones I could not perceive when it was on screen. Research into these two phenomena, the art one and the spelling improvement one currently needing doing on paper, would need to be completely understood and resolved first. Using the normal spell-checker on the computer only compensates for the problem, it does not fulfill understanding nor truly solve the problem, which probably has more far-reaching effects that are critically important, too, before education can be fully reliable via the computer screen. There is also much need for far more versatile input devices to the computerized educational system than just the keyboard and mouse, powerful as those widespread input devices are. Possibly computer game type controls might need to be integrated into such educational systems using the internet. In some course material, three dimensional viewing may be needed; so adaptations for that need to be developed for education, such as wearing alternate-side-switched glasses driven by the computer which is alternately showing the view from the two stereo sight positions, so to the mind there is 3 D in motion.
A third arena not directly addressed in the debate is how to increase the productivity efficiency of America, and telecommuting surely is one of them; the abovementioned input and output versatile systems (and eventually developing full-body-sensing computer input devices) thus created for educational systems online, could be adapted also for performing telecommuting activities via the internet from home, directing machines to do the required actions to build and test and repair products, as if the operator of the tools were actually on site in the factory. This would have advantages of greatly reducing the fuel consumption to commute to the job each day, but also eliminate the commute time; and would also enable scale conversions such that a person could be observing what appears to be easily handled items being worked upon, when in reality the machines are actually manipulating microscopic devices; or visa versa very large items, with the person operating the equipment from the comfort of home, not focused on it being tiny or huge, but of just easy handled size to the senses.
While we skirt the complacency of "business as usual" failed policies of the recent past these ways, we will need to find a comfortable eyes-wide-open level of monitoring the results of our changes to the systems, intelligently and compassionately resolving the unexpected interaction issues as they are first spotted as we go along.
Life could become lots more interesting as a result of all this, too, as people drift out of the couch potato zonked in front of TV sports munching MSG-laced fast food mode, into far more enjoyable forms of living consciously and actively healthily.
First, re the health insurance issues, indeed "an ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure"; the obesity epidemic very likely is tied to the use of MSG in food, therefore, there needs to be a general ban on its use in food for all manufacturers and other food suppliers such as restaurants, including MSG use by any of its other names: ban monosodium glutamate from being in any foods. This could involve some amplification of whole-person studies already done re the breakdown products of MSG in the body and what they do to the neuromuscular system, as well as the problem of eating more than necessary, which is the purpose of MSG, to sell more food by causing people to eat more than needed for health, thus more business and profit for the food suppliers but at the cost of overweight in the consumers. And another health cost-effective approach is to form a fully objective evaluation system for evaluating alternative health protocols; for example, one such protocol system involves the use of the small electrical signals long utilized by experimenters using the Rife and HRClark technologies (which have a long history of suppression by the rival pharmaceutical business industries, unfortunately for the well being of the people of this nation); my personal experimentation with them for the past dozen years indicates there is much merit in them as very cost-effective preventive and healing systems for many health issues, saving enormous money and time; yet somehow the business territory claims of conventional medicine suppliers needs to be appropriately adapted, going instead for what really works overall best for people, and also finding new useful employment for those skilled health field workers which will become surplus thereby.
Second, re education, I would suggest very intense looking into the use of the internet and television for educational purposes, since the classroom setting is not necessarily the optimum educational medium for all subject material; we learn quite well by example's set before us. For an obvious example, programming of televisised educational shows could be like Sesame Street for adults too; imagine enjoying learning calculus that way. And the interactive potentials of the internet and web browser technology has enormous potential for designing online course material where problems are shown, ways to solve the problem are shown, then problems are shown to the student and the student's answers evaluated online as to adequacy and where necessary new problems and their solutions are put before the student until the student gets it right, every time. Learning course material could then make every student an "A+" student; some will learn faster than others, but then there will be no missing pieces as in a "C" grade education. However, the computer screen display still has some quirks that need to be resolved or bypassed in such education; the well-known differences between paper versus computer screen, even the LCD screens. Artists still have to make an initial artwork on paper, then use the computer to create it digitally; somehow it does not work well when trying to do creative art directly onscreen, ask the artists. And similarly for "left brain rational" data input, the on screen display still has a problem needing analysis and resolution, which I, as an excellent speller from childhood, puzzle over, a demonstrable and repeatable phenomenon that I can compose and write online and go back and correct my spelling - if unassisted by the spellcheck, of course - and the paper will look spelled correctly to me; but if I then print it out onto paper, and look at it, almost invariably my eyes will spot more spelling errors almost instantly, ones I could not perceive when it was on screen. Research into these two phenomena, the art one and the spelling improvement one currently needing doing on paper, would need to be completely understood and resolved first. Using the normal spell-checker on the computer only compensates for the problem, it does not fulfill understanding nor truly solve the problem, which probably has more far-reaching effects that are critically important, too, before education can be fully reliable via the computer screen. There is also much need for far more versatile input devices to the computerized educational system than just the keyboard and mouse, powerful as those widespread input devices are. Possibly computer game type controls might need to be integrated into such educational systems using the internet. In some course material, three dimensional viewing may be needed; so adaptations for that need to be developed for education, such as wearing alternate-side-switched glasses driven by the computer which is alternately showing the view from the two stereo sight positions, so to the mind there is 3 D in motion.
A third arena not directly addressed in the debate is how to increase the productivity efficiency of America, and telecommuting surely is one of them; the abovementioned input and output versatile systems (and eventually developing full-body-sensing computer input devices) thus created for educational systems online, could be adapted also for performing telecommuting activities via the internet from home, directing machines to do the required actions to build and test and repair products, as if the operator of the tools were actually on site in the factory. This would have advantages of greatly reducing the fuel consumption to commute to the job each day, but also eliminate the commute time; and would also enable scale conversions such that a person could be observing what appears to be easily handled items being worked upon, when in reality the machines are actually manipulating microscopic devices; or visa versa very large items, with the person operating the equipment from the comfort of home, not focused on it being tiny or huge, but of just easy handled size to the senses.
While we skirt the complacency of "business as usual" failed policies of the recent past these ways, we will need to find a comfortable eyes-wide-open level of monitoring the results of our changes to the systems, intelligently and compassionately resolving the unexpected interaction issues as they are first spotted as we go along.
Life could become lots more interesting as a result of all this, too, as people drift out of the couch potato zonked in front of TV sports munching MSG-laced fast food mode, into far more enjoyable forms of living consciously and actively healthily.
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