This is gonna be a fun one!

Sometimes we become so reliant upon the tools that we use, we fail to remember, or realize the fundamental science that brought them to us. In doing so, we are missing out on being truly mind-blown about some of the technological breakthroughs that bring us all together. 

In a grand scheme, there's an upside and a downside to every great leap forward in human tech. Sometimes we don't realize, or appreciate our limitations, and at other times, we simply forget that we have flaws in our make-up that we still need to master.

The manner in which the internet has brought the world together still needs to be appreciated. Email, for instance, is something that we all take for granted, but all of humanity, the history of humanity actually, has forever changed at the ability to organize text, and now even pictures and sometimes videos, links to videos, instant access to the world encyclopedias, where these pieces of data can pass from one side of the globe to the other and instantly land at the doorstep of the specific person we wish to reach. Now, it is even easier to say we can get platform-specific about doing the same thing. By putting together several forms of communication, all virtually instant, all because of the connection of computers on the internet, we can make use of a single platform, like social media, or a platform like Discord, to communicate directly with others of a specific area of interest, or using tags or hash signs to reach those we have yet to meet.

Websites that post articles, have areas of interest, products to download, resources to commemorate, can all be referenced, as if the great libraries of the world are of access to a mind of any age, from any location in the world, except for the most tyrannical governments and now the most politicized.

Even though we certainly now rely upon the internet and the layers of internet layered upon the internet, it is important for people to take the time to consider, in context, just how fast the new information revolutions have changed society forever, and with that comes what many would argue, is the darker side of such remarkable inventions. To the same degree that facts, sentiments, kindnesses and all forms of caring can be translated and transmitted anywhere in the world, in instant conversation or as letters, the worst of sentiments can also do the same. People can say mean things, commit terrible acts via information, can show movies or images of awful things, or at the very least age-inappropriate things depending on your world view and moral stance.

But, even moving back from this a bit, none of us would be introduced to the internet if it weren't for computers. That means figuring out the protocols necessary to pass digital chunks of data across phone lines, then faster modems, then DSL and cable, and WiFi. We take it for granted that it just simply works now, but it was a challenge to essentially re-invent the network of phones connected through a service that literally still requires a wired-direct service largely around the globe, to send/receive digital code, until new cabling services allowed a faster piggy-back than phone services. Satellites beaming data, cable, WiFi, digital packets encrypting and decrypting all to provide a human experience we recognize and understand.

But, before we get to utilizing the computer to pass data outside of the individual computer, across phone lines, to be received by targeted strangers on the other side of the globe, we have to deal with the fact that the computer itself is even doing the things it does. This takes us down to the level of microchips, and if you even take time to think about it at all, you may only think of this in terms of how we've gone from multi-cores backwards to dual cores, down to single cores, then to slower and slower processing speeds, less RAM, smaller hard drive space. Eventually, we remember the Celeron versions of better processors for the el-cheapo version, the 486, 386, 286 and anything prior was simply incapable of more than outputting to a Dot-matrix printer, but still pretty remarkable stuff nonetheless.

To reflect on these things brings us deeper into the abyss of the powers we are actually utilizing here. The microchip itself accomplishes so many tasks, we hardly consider what actually goes into it. Prior to the large format of the chip, there was still digital. The computers were massive because the wired connections were linking processors that go all the way back to vacuum tube technology, where sending data to one side of a dual-chamber tube could give a different result than the other chamber, thus constantly shifting source electric energy pulses would change the data from a one to a zero. When this was changed to solid state, we were essentially using the same technology as radios and radio towers to send and receive data. Before solid state and before the tube, the military actually used human beings, soldiers, to line up and manually change dip switches back and forth to transmit the final data.

So, the semiconductor in itself is not just a shrinking down of technological real estate, but it is the vast speeding up of those processes, the parallel processing power of doing more data creation, doing it faster, doing it cheaper, doing it in a smaller space, using less energy, generating less heat, and then optimizing the code of the languages that sit on top of all of those ones and zeros.

You truly have to appreciate at the very least, the framework of these things to get your mind around where we are. Once you're there, we can fully appreciate the arguments now thrust upon PoW, namely Bitcoin's use of energy. If we take the Bitcoin network and the decentralized nature of systems handling transactions and rewarding miners, it is such an incredibly small subset of the entire internet's use of energy to transact all other data, and each computer plugged in or charged to lithium. Are we willing to compare the contributions to humanity and weigh-in which things are allowed to remain, while others must go?

I ask this, because at the end of the day I think we are looking at much deeper significance to the world's capacity to generate electricity, and other than extreme weather events, all of humanity has hardly ever experienced a shortage of electricity that was not man-made. There are numerous countries where brown-outs of time-shared energy sources are just a regular thing, but not for a lack of resources to generate more energy, clean and efficient, but rather because of the government's lack of initiative to care for it's population better. That's just the truth, folks.

Getting back to the super-micro, though.

That translation of ones and zeros is given a language, and the literal materials used to generate the data require physical energy. Every digit is transformation of energy. Digitization is efficient, but it took a long time getting here. It would take volumes to truly draw the picture. That efficiency has literally taken us from a single computer that is 1/1000 of today's laptop in processing power a mere 60 years ago, which did literally require the power of a small city to run, where today a city full of hundreds of thousands of users, from laptops to desktops to smart phones, all running on essentially the same power consumption as a single massive government 'supercomputer' of the 60's and 70's. That is the astronomical rate of advancement. So, when I hear people suddenly realizing that processing PoW requires electricity, I can't help but think they are some of the most ill-informed, incapable of understanding their place in history, and baby the internet is right there at your fingertips if you want to learn how we got here.

So, getting processing of bits down from humans at dip-switches to single city-sized 186's, to the microchip, we now learn to use dyes and smaller connections until we are getting literal billions of ones and zeros in real estate smaller than the tip of a pen. We have reached the literal limit of how small data can travel, at the atomic level. Literally one nano smaller, and we cause nuclear collisions that cannot parse a zero or one. We're now learning to layer on top, much like the skyscraper's use of real estate, and we're also learning to harness the power of the deep-freeze, making atomic principles speed up to a point where the quantum processing can occur.

It is remarkable, the technology we are utilizing. I bring up Bill Gates, because he does in fact play a large role, much as Woz for Apple. Gates mastered the art of the swap when bringing DOS to IBM and then the world, and it was his enchantment, like Jobs, that led them to steal windows-based technology from its earliest designer. The ability to write code on top of a language and then store it easily and efficiently turned all of those ones and zeros into something functional that every future thought could be built upon.

We have atomic theory, quantum physics, the reduction of heat, dissipation, space, consumption, and efficiencies that make it possible for the entire world to converse in video, audio, text, pictures, and we're reaching the limit of how super, a super computer can become before forcing the temperature down to where the next level is astronomically further than any information has ever increased. 

100 years ago we would have had absolutely no reference to the science it would take for a world wide network of computers to communicate with one another real-time. As advanced as all of this may be, we are at exactly that point in history as it relates to AI and quantum computing. It is such a huge leap we truly have to consider the dangers as much, if not more, than the benefits. To move technology any further into the future, we literally have to harness the power of the atom by slowing it down from its natural state, but in doing so, we are essentially now truly inside the matrix, where we should consider with a massive depth, weightiness of philosophy, who we want in charge of the data now being constructed. I would even offer to suggest that our governments are already utilizing the quantum, but we're not fully in on the secret. There is data to suggest quantum computing was already used in tests for running full military operations back as far as 2014. Again, a whole other discussion.

The breakthroughs that someone like Gates has been a part of, give him a frame of reference that most of us simply cannot appreciate. He cracked a lot of Satoshi-like problems in his time, and has labored to crack a lot of others. The problem, is that the human level of technology matters as much, perhaps should matter more, than the mathematical bottom line. Many would argue that his masterful means of manipulating monopolies don't translate so well to vaccinations and other plots to 'improve' systems in humanity. It's great for programming on top of the microchip, but maybe not so much inside the human body.

When a person considers that the same concepts that have revolutionized computers, are now being introduced to merge, to interface with organics, we bump against the most important warnings of good ole' sci-fi. The great minds involved are largely humanist, sometimes of a disturbing secret society kind, but as humanists, the philosophy is to advance radical life extension and to use a merging of digital with organic life, using nano-hi-tech to instruct, change, manually adjust the dip-switches in cells to improve, optimize, upgrade... us.

In fact, as we enter the debate on Bitcoin's energy use... AGAIN... consider that the patent is already out to use the energy from a human body, regulated by nano devices, to generate the energy required to mine coins. Yes, you become the energy source, and that tech is linked to how you physically, physiologically react to advertising data and other forms of data on the internet. This patent is a blockchain tech using your energy, but also a sync for gps, sending/receiving packets, and suggests that the next Bitcoin network is going to be us... literally.

With that being the case, the same tech that got us down to an atomic level and speed, will now piggy-back on the matrix all over again, using us as living breathing duracels to mine coins, likely for our benevolent rulers. This is a time of reflection, and to rise above, to be smart enough not to be manipulated by the awful propaganda machine the combination of media and politics have joined to become.

I shudder to think how quickly mankind has become so well accustomed to being programmed. Much like the OS, we absorb information and pass it through our channels until false narratives become a part of our consciousness. We are to be more than a mere subset of ones and zeros, folks. We need to have the freedoms to choose NOT to be utilized for our energy force. The narratives that we are running out of... energy, is simply not the case. We have plenty of air, plenty of land, plenty of water, and 100000X plenty the technology to create what we do not have. The narrative that we are on the edge of "x" ready to fall over creates a generational panic over things that simply are not true.

So, as we have mastered the ability to shrink the transmission of information to use less energy, to cost less, to use fewer resources, to operate on less energy, so should we be able to convert dirty water to clean, to improve clean energy solutions that do not require brainwashing from the government and subsidized trillions of dollars. Efficiency is the last thing on "their" minds, the people behind the propaganda. They just want control, the sooner the better. But, the genius of ingenuity always comes at a price. We should always be willing to take the time to appreciate how we got here, but thoroughly consider how we the people, can join together, to simply be smarter about how all of these things should be utilized. 

We are mere heart-beats away from a completely, totally cybernated world. Data on every topic, on every level, will be transmitted, and some of that, a great measure of that breaches our basic rights to some form of privacy, that has been essential and largely understood, for the entire record of humanity. Do I want the mere fact that ones and zeros CAN transmit anything, to anywhere, to include my blood oxygen level, for corporations to consume and sell? Do I want the Gates of the world to know if I had a nightmare and I became flush with a racing heartbeat? Is a person's time of intimacy with someone the digital property right of Zuckerberg? We are right there on the precipice where those decisions are being made... right now! It is largely a vaccine program that is used to integrate with the thinking in society. If it can stop a global outbreak, sure let's hook up the micro-biological structure of humanity to the internet and see where that leads.

If you're not aware that this is at the fundamental roots of the Great Reset, you simply aren't paying attention.

For the most part, I Gordon, like so many, am choosing to focus on smaller, simpler things. I focus a lot of my time on things that are more in the wheel house of my control. But truly, with every coin, with every block of data in our industry, I consider the ramifications of what comes when private coin project agreements are made with private corporations and worse, with governmental organizations. The human cost for the initial dollars that are made, may be substantial on levels that we cannot fathom. In fact, it is infinitely more likely than not, that things are going to change so incredibly fast, most people will wonder where on earth it all came from.

Everything is connected to everything else, always.

That is the message.

And for now, a mindfully warning Gordon Freeman, suggesting you consider how to maintain the sovereignty of your privacy and choices to make choices in life... out.