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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:39:48 -0500
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Stephen's Secure Blog #418
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 22 in this story, in Summer of year 12 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #418 "CNN Space Program"
START Page
Sharon asked for a meeting. She said, "I want your light cube
can have it, and we can't!" I said "Wow! You almost said a bad word!"
She was very embarrassed, but resolute. I said "Been taking warrior
lessons from Rose?" She had to smile, but said, "By example, yes." I
said "Here's how we could do it. You sell my miniatures to the
government, and to any real scientist who wants to examine them. They
have to pay money. Only they can purchase in the beginning, and they
must sign an agreement, a contract, that they will make public the
results of their investigation in no more than a month after the
purchase, in FULL disclosure, stating how it works if they can, and if
it can cause any harm other than that if somebody throws it at
somebody. If they state that there is any harm from the effects of the
display without proof, they must pay a million dollars to a charity I
will designate, after admitting that they lied. Then, after that month,
we put up the big one on Smithsonian grounds, and anybody attempting to
damage it will be prostituted. Er, prosecuted." She laughed. I said "It
should be on the Mall, but we can't have everything. The others are in
similar places, or will be. Does America want everybody to know that
they value me less than hundreds of billions on other words do?" She
had some tears, and said, "I think that might be true. But I'll work on
that, too. Announce that in your next show." I said "Alright."
I said "Some things I've been doing recently to protect people I
can't tell them about. I assume you would like to know." She said "Damn
right!" I grinned. Then I told her about the two Nagindra fleets. She
had a lot of wows. I gave her a crystal of what happened. She had more
wows, and some laughs for it. Then she said, "That light spire
sculpture you gave the museums. Can I see a copy?" I ported one to her
desk. She turned it on, and said in a whisper, "It's beautiful!" I said
"Thanks. I like it." She said "Can we keep it?" I said "Could get you
"Alright. Where do you want it?" She said "Can't be here. Could get
knocked over. Your usual storeroom, in a padded box, for now." I did
that. We hugged with love.
For the July 4th love broadcast, I had with me Jan and Pete. On the
CNN show after it, Don said, "I sensed two new people in your
broadcast. I expect you want me to tell you what I felt of them.
Complex. Wisdom. Heightened sexuality. Nothing else." I said "Yes, that
describes them. A man and a woman. Old. My oldest students from my
previous life. Older than I was at the time." He said "Married?" I said
"Not to each other. Both single now. No, I don't know if they are
getting it on with each other. Laughing, though." Don laughed,
embarrassedly. He said "I never know what you're going to say." I said
"That's the point, isn't it? Why else am I here?" He cleared his
throat, and said, "Right." I said "That was the last of my planned love
broadcast experiments. For the other broadcasts, I will have other
students, in various groups, and repeats. I like sharing."
I said "I've been asked to make an announcement. I suspect you would
like to know what it is." I told about Sharon's proposal, and why she
made it. He said "That could work." I said "The GC took apart my sample
cubes, smashed them, actually, and couldn't find in them anything that
they could recognize as a device, according to their own reports. All
they could tell was that light, ordinary light, was somehow contained
above the cubes, and they couldn't figure out how or why, or why the
touch of a finger made it change. I'm not going to detail the testing,
because I don't want to take away the fun from those here. Some of
their tests were very odd." He said "Maybe just one?" I said "Well,
alright, just one. They submerged them in water. Made no difference in
the operation. I don't want to even think about what other liquids they
put them in. Or smell." He said "No, they didn't!" I said "Yes, they
did. I wonder if they then gave them to people they didn't like." He
laughed. I said "But they weren't flushed with success." He laughed
some more. We went to break.
Back from break, Don said "We had Bill Gats here in an interview.
Remarkable story." I said "Remarkable man. One of the first successful
nerds." He said "Yes. Which computer do you use? Windows PC, or Apple
Macintosh?" I said "I, and my students, use our own computers,
operating systems, and software. No keyboards, track pads, touch
screens, or long tailed rodents, and no physical displays. All operated
directly by the mind, and the 3D screen is either an external
projection, or seen directly by the mind. I invented them in my last
life before there were personal computers, and improved them in this
life. Want to see one?" He said "Absolutely!" I ported my wrist band to
me, and said, "Here is mine. It's also my phone and universal
translator. Used to be. I don't need it now, which is why I'm not
wearing it. Each of these are keyed to the person it's for, and can't
be used by another, and they require Adept abilities to be operated.
Our students who aren't yet skilled enough to use the mental interface
directly, use a headset. We learn too fast to be slowed down by a
keyboard, or even the spoken word, in writing papers for our
educational requirements." He said "Why don't you need it?" I said "I
don't need my computer, because I can access our school's master
computer and com center with my mind, directly. Nor do I need a
translator. I can learn any language in a second." He said "What if
it's an alien language that's impossible for you to pronounce?" I said,
"You've heard my drum rolls here? I produce them by moving the air with
my mind, just like an invisible speaker diaphragm would. With the
reverse of that, I can hear anything I want to, even if my own flapping
ears can't. Ha, it seems my students hadn't thought of that to hear out
of normal range frequencies with, and are telling others who aren't
watching the show. One of our engineering specialists is laughing his
head almost off his shoulders, and half of that is at himself. More
now, actually." Don laughed.
I said "Ohboy am I going to get it from Rose when I get home, for not
telling her for her work with the Blue Crab people. Well, I can't think
of everything. I see your surprise. Put it back where you got it from."
He laughed. I said "Yes, I'm human. A little more advanced than
average, yes, but still human. I'm not perfect. We can construct
virtual devices with our minds, like those speakers I mentioned. Rose
has done it. Theoretically, it should be and can be practically
anything. The only real limitation is how fast and precisely we can
order our minds to do it. Unfortunately, we have to actually think of
the idea to actually do it, first. I do it more than others, because
I'm an artist and inventor, so I think that way." He said "Wow!" I said
"That's what they're saying, too." He laughed. We went to commercial.
Off air, he said, "Fascinating." I said "Channeling Spock?" He laughed
Back from break, Don said, "Which should be funded, foodstamps, or
the space program?" I said "That's not a fair question. Which do you
need to live on, water, OR bread?" He said "I see your point, but
others don't." I said, "I could give them something to help with that;
government would have enough funds to easily take care of both
programs, and much more. Foodstamps is an immediate thing, because
people need that basic necessity to live. The space program is for
developing the future. We NEED a future, or we have nothing to strive
for, to reach it. Take education. We need to spend money on it NOW, or
we will be giving the future to uneducated idiots, and if that's so,
why bother to do anything now at all? Why not just give up and die?" He
said "I don't remember hearing it expressed exactly that way before.
You're saying, we shouldn't just concentrate on surviving, but WHY we
are trying to survive, to give us good reasons to."
I said "Yes. Goals. President Kennedy inspired a generation with a
great goal, to reach the moon, for no other reason than that it is
there, and because it is hard. That's actually something like what he
said. From that great effort, we have had more inventions, great basic
inventions, more than in any other part of history. We wouldn't have
personal computers, except for the space program. And there was much
more. The need for miniaturization spawned the personal digital age. We
had competition, and that also drove us. Now what do we have? Do we
have the same drive we had then? I lived through that. We do NOT. I
think we need a great goal, or more than one, to motivate us to our
best effort, as individuals, and as a society. The space program can be
one of those goals. The pledge to use only clean energy can be another
goal. Those are just examples, for the whole country. The goal doesn't
even have to be profitable in money, because it WILL be profitable in
many other ways. Can we do it? If we don't, another country WILL. Do we
want our petty shortsighted laziness let the world pass us by? I think
some, including some politicians, actually do what that. To them, their
personal power and wealth is more important, and so is pushing their
various ideologies. BOTH political parties are guilty of that. China
and India are already close to making America a second rate country in
comparison, because of their great efforts. I applaud them. I want to
applaud us for the same reason. I'm waiting." We went to commercial."
He said "Wow! Another blast." I said "Well, you asked. Did you expect
me to fart, instead?" He laughed almost hysterically.
Back on air, he was still laughing. I said "The space program
inspired students to become scientists and engineers. Now if we want to
hire an engineer, we have to go overseas. We are just not graduating
nearly enough engineers, because there isn't enough incentive to
students to be interested in it. Instead, we are graduating performance
artists more in proportion, than at any other time in history. Not so,
other countries. We need to fix that. PAY them to become engineers. Pay
their tuition in student loans, to be forgiven if they successfully
graduate. Give them a government job signing bonus, if they are hired
by an American company, and work in America. There are a lot of ways to
motivate America's improvement, but there has to be a WILL to do it. We
can. Will we? It doesn't look like those who CAN do it, actually care.
Prove I'm wrong. Words are cheap. DO IT!" Don said "Good cheerleading."
I said "I don't know about a skirt, but I am NOT playing with pom
poms." He laughed.
He said "Some politicians, or aspiring politicians, complain the
media concentrate too much on what they call gotcha moments, where they
make mistakes and say the wrong things. What is your opinion on that?"
I said "Do it more." He said "Wow! I didn't expect THAT!" I said "If
they complain, it means they don't care about being wrong, and not
nearly enough about being correct and responsible. We need to know that
about them, so we can avoid voting for them. Our leaders represent US,
in very critical foreign relations, and other issues, where one wrong
word in public, and even in private, can cause war, topple governments,
and maybe cause a lot of people to die, and affect the world for
generations. You go after all those gotchas you can, to keep them on
their toes and watching their own mouths like starving hawks. We depend
on you to keep them straight and factual. Do it for us, for the
American and world public, for our futures, our very lives." He
couldn't even say wow. I said to the camera, "Poor Don. I shocked him
speechless. Let's go to break." Off air, Len said in the air from the
control room, "GREAT cheerleading." I said "Watch it, or I might shove
Back on air, I said, "When I was working to free Tibet, I told the
Chinese government that a free press is essential to have a successful
democracy. I just gave you one of the reasons why. Another is to reduce
government abuse. If we hadn't had a free press, would anybody have
heard about that happened in Bill Gats' home? Well, in countries
without a free press, those kinds of things happen all the time, and
much more, and the central government couldn't stop it if they wanted
to, because THEY don't even know that much of it happens, because it
doesn't get reported to them, and the media isn't there to uncover it.
Citizens can't complain to the capital about local government abuse,
because if they even hint they want to, they get stopped. Those
countries know they have a big problem with local government abuse, but
they can't do anything about it without a free press, and they can't
have that, or they can't conceal their OWN abuses, from their own
people and the world. YOU, Don, and others like you, and all the
support staff, are an essential part of what keeps our government from
abusing its citizens with violence and corruption, more than any amount
of guns were supposed to do with the right to bear arms. Even law
enforcement owes you a lot, for the watchdog duties you perform to keep
them honest. The Judicial system, too. They don't have to like it, but
what you do is NECESSARY. Yes, the media can go too far, such as when
they break the law, but no institution is perfect. Even with all that,
we wouldn't have all we have that is good, without you. Even if you
embarrass too easily." He laughed. He said "We are out of time. Thank
you Stephen, for sharing your views with us." I said "I'm here to do
that. Embarrassing you is just extra fun." He laughed. Len announced
"Off air!"
Len came into the studio, and said, "Wow! Real Cheerleading!" I threw
a dozen pompoms at him. They laughed. He said "Seriously, I speak for
all of us, when I say we really appreciate what you just said. All of
it, actually. America needs it, and nobody else is saying it. YOU have
their attention, and even though it might not look like it, you ARE
reaching them. Joking about cheerleading still doesn't make it untrue.
In the past two years, we've had requests to pass on to you in the
millions, for you to run for national office. We know you won't, so we
didn't bother you with that. I'm telling you because it shows that a
LOT of people listen to you, and agree with you." I said "Thanks, but I
knew that. It's those who don't agree with me, that I'm trying to
convince. But I've probably done that as much as possible now. I could
going to say something that might make you want to REALLY kick
yourselves to close to death. You've asked me to moderate political
debates. I shouldn't, but I could do something for you that might be
even better. Live gotcha detection on a screen right in front of the
moderator, with references." They both had silent wows. Len said to
Don, "Kick with shoes on, or off?" They nodded ruefully to each other.
I hugged them with love.
Back at home, Chad said, "Great! Something controversial! Hooray for
gotchas!" We all poked him, and he laughed. Rose said "I love what you
said. We all do. Do you think anything will come of it?" I said "Not
while I'm alive." Hawk said "Oh! You think only your death will wake
them up, that they have to be their own cheer leaders then?" I said
"Something like that, maybe." Dan said "If Jesus hadn't died the way he
did, would Christianity have succeeded?" I said "We'll never know, but
if it did, it sure would be different. The same for Islam, if Ali
hadn't died the way he did. Death of a leader, and how it happens, can
be one of the most remembered, and therefore the most powerful part of
their legacy, and seriously affect how people think of that person.
Violence enhances that." Rose said "The way you've outlined yours, is
the best for you and us." I said "I would have liked to go while
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