Cyborgian webnets of the future?

One thing I do know is that things will change one hundred years from now. In one thousand years, we may not recognize our world of nations. After one hundred thousand years, we may not recognize ourselves as human beings. Until those times, things will change at relatively rapid rates.

In the future, when parents will have to extract their children from the web-link where they grew to young adulthood, we will be confronted with an ever increasing sense of what are we and what are we becoming. Our future selves may have many advantages that our present selves lack. Rapid biological repair, brain and memory enhancement, directed world-wide and personal communications, virtual instant travel, virtual training and education are a few of the possible future advantages that we may have. However, there will also be many others who don’t have these enhancements due to mass movements because of disease outbreaks, superstitious practices, climate change, wars and economic upheavals.

Until these interesting times, I’m blessed with an interesting network of connections, which I will list in no particular order here:


http://tinyurl.com/ceolc3

http://tinyurl.com/c9byvm

http://www.pioneerpiano.com/

http://www.artisticveil.com/

http://www.pacificwesternwoodproducts.com/index.php/about-us/

http://tinyurl.com/c5l8jl

http://tinyurl.com/c9fopy

http://tinyurl.com/d7276j

http://www.prod4ever.com/

http://www.bio-balance.com/COMPANY.htm

http://www.changelingstudio.com/

http://www.dreamhomesbynancy.com/

http://www.bio-balance.com/

http://twitter.com/rlanzara

http://www.bio-balance.com/Ref.htm

http://tinyurl.com/d7vx8r

http://tinyurl.com/dd9emf

http://cogprints.org/4093/

http://cogprints.org/4095/

http://cogprints.org/4094/

http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijp.2005.122.131

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5597699.html


http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6593094.html

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6673558.html

http://www.helium.com/users/413070

http://tinyurl.com/csc7k7

http://www.bio-balance.com/Pict02.htm

http://www.bio-balance.com/Pict4.htm

http://www.bio-balance.com/Receptor.htm

This is but a sampling of interesting links that will eventually go extinct, but until that time -enjoy!

Are Lobbyists and Members of Congress Receiving Bailout Money?

Of the three plus trillion dollars that’s been committed to jump start our economy, there are few reports detailing where all that money goes. Since many of the large firms that have received these funds had active lobbying groups, it seems logical to question whether any of the bailout money has gone to such groups. This would certainly be as inappropriate an expense as the AIG bonuses at a time when many are being forced out of their homes.

The news media seems to be behind the curve on this one. Perhaps it raises too many other troubling questions such as did members of congress also receive, directly or indirectly, bailout money? I don’t mind spending the money to jump start the economy, but to line the pockets of the rich and powerful may create a terrible outcry if the public knew.

List of social media examples

List of social media examples compiled by Peter Kim, which lists Slice Media

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Tooting My Dad’s Horn - “The Secret Life Of Jesus And Mary Magdalene by Richard J. Lanzara”

Since retiring as a lawyer, my Dad has taken up writing as his new career. This is his third book, The Secret Life Of Jesus And Mary Magdalene by Richard J. Lanzara, (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Secret-Life-Of-Jesus-And-Mary-Magdalene/Richard-J-Lanzara/e/9781607034162). Beyond Jesus’ and Mary Magdalene’s personal relationship, he has also done a great deal of research to understand the spiritual lives of Jesus and Mary. This work represents a completely new and previously unchartered realm from a mystical perspective that no one has previously written. This makes it a particularly exciting book to read, because it tries to address many of the mysteries surrounding Jesus’ life.

The book gives a unique status to Mary as one of Jesus’ most important disciples. Jesus taught her secret spiritual mysteries that he didn’t teach to his other disciples. The nature of these mysteries are revealed in this book for the first time. Of course this is from the perspective of my Dad, but I know that he has explored these mysteries for many decades and has now shared them here in this book. This work represents many years of Dad’s scholarly readings of many mystical writings and therefore also represents a synopsis that no one could hope to get anywhere else.

For those who search for an understanding into these mysterious realms, I highly recommend this book. Those who approach these mysteries with the mind of an inquiring child will be rewarded with a deeper and richer understanding of these spiritual secrets.

Should Worldwide Stock Markets Stop Electronic Trading Using Algorithms?

We’ve entered the age of the Algorithm, which is the age when computer programs run and make decisions that affect our lives. These Algorithms have already become quite good at beating most experts at games such as chess, poker and checkers, but there are others that can also beat the common investor in stocks. Currently we’re witnessing the Darwinian battle of the remaining Algorithms in the trading of stocks. These successful Algorithms have made a great deal of money for their investors, so there is a reluctance to abandon them, but we are in unique and unprecedented times that require us to think about the higher order effects on the overall equilibrium and stability of the global markets.

Many successful Hedge funds have used stock trading algorithms to make billions of dollars. Now that many investors have learned that the way to make a small fortune in the stock markets is to start with a larger one, these trading algorithms are left and pitted against one another. However, there are flaws with regulators allowing these scenarios to be played out. One flaw is that the overly successful algorithms will extract billions of dollars in wealth out of the markets. Any market strategy that wins repeatedly will eventually ruin the markets for everyone else. This has to be recognized by the market regulators and eventually corrected in order to maintain orderly markets.

Previously, some market rules and regulations may have functioned as brakes on the rapid electronic trading using these algorithms. Unintended consequences that may have made algorithmic trading more difficult may have resulted from the suspension of these rules such as the uptick rule. These have to be carefully considered by market regulators as necessary brakes on these powerful funds.

An interesting evolutionary perspective from these epic Darwinian struggles suggests that it isn’t necessarily for the best to eliminate all competition in evolving systems. Of course this raises many questions, such as: “What is the best?” and “What is the purpose of evolving systems?”, that can’t be answered here in terse and nonphilosophical words. Even the purpose of competition, itself, becomes a philosophical conundrum in this context, so I should stop here.

Credit Default Swaps and the Financial Crisis

A couple months ago, most of us never heard about credit default swaps (CDS), but now we learn that they may be at the heart of the financial crisis. This is primarily because many banks and financial institutions have credit default swaps on their books and no one knows how to value them or how much these financial institutions may owe.

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap):

A credit default swap (CDS) is a swap contract in which a buyer makes a series of payments to a seller, and in exchange receives the right to a payoff if a credit instrument goes into default or on the occurrence of a specified credit event, for example bankruptcy or restructuring. The associated instrument does not need to be associated with the buyer or the seller of this contract.

Estimates of the credit default swap market has grown to the tens of trillions, (yes, that’s trillions), of dollars. It is now estimated to be larger than the world’s GDP. This has caused many institutions to hoard cash and not lend to others for fear that many have these “toxic debts” on their books.

Why don’t we make credit default swaps illegal? They will always remain as a source of doubt about financial institutions. Those who’ve engaged in these unregulated practices will just have to eat their loses, which they appear to be doing now. Just look at the recent auction of Lehman Brother’s credit default swaps, which yielded about 8 cents on the dollar. Wouldn’t we be better off legislating them all away and starting again from zero?

The Market Mess

Having been glued to the set last week watching the financial crises, I can’t help but wonder if we have finally come to the end of this problem... Perhaps we need to stop the whole mortgage derivative business and go back to the more simple time of mortgage lending...