Print your brain with Twitter...

Yesterday, BunkerSofa attended that Twitter Japan party in Harajuku.

We realized that Twitter has been adopted by various kinds of people in different ways, which are as follows:

- Micro-blogging: people write short sentences about what they are doing and thinking.
- Real-time communication: what i call interrupted chat.
- Timeline: you get historical data on your own behavior and thought process.
- Brain-to-brain connection: Twitter is the first step towards a network of brains.
- Questions-answering: To get information, instead of typing keywords in Google, you can ask directly human beings.
- Trends analysis: you can get a precise idea of what's happening on the Internet at a specific instant.
- (*) others...

But I think I have recently got another interpretation, which is more powerful, encompassing all the previous ones. In fact, I think it 's a fundamental one.

As you know, a computer runs a binary software and computes something. The result of that computation is usually printed out on the screen.
The human brain is the same. It s an electrochemical calculator, running a special kind of software, a neuronal software called "thinking". The result of that computational process is a thought.

There is no difference between an electronic calculator and an electrochemical calculator: in both cases, you wanna print out the results of the computation.

Therefore, Twitter is for me that piece of blank paper where my brain prints out its thoughts and that piece of blank paper has become indispensable...



(*) If you have other interpretations, please comment!

Let's count naturally.... in exponential steps!

Our species was never purely 100% biological; we did not stay in the caves, we built tools, we invented the wheel, we flied planes and we have invented the computer; So we have always been a human-machine civilization from the very beginning.

As Ray Kurzweil states, Evolution is the process by which we first build capacities and then re-use these capacities to build technologies of increasing order (i.e. better technologies).

So this is a multiplicative process, by means of which you leverage technologies already built.

Counting linearly is to add a same quantity at each step.

Counting exponentially is to multiply by a same quantity at each step.

By this definition, you can convince yourself that evolution is exponential by nature.

I have found 2 reasons why too few people notice that we are an exponential civilization:

- At the beginning, an exponential is very flat and seems linear.

- As soon as a new technology appears, human beings adopt them unconsciously.

One quantity is beginning to be unequivocally exponential and this is the computing power of our PCs, which doubles every year.

You'd better know how to count in exponential steps if you want to still be human in the next decade and catch-up with others:

1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024, instead of:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Everyone is running space-time at the speed of light!

Everyone knows the famous equation E=mc² of Einstein, because of its simplicity and it does not require advances Maths.

However, Einstein derived other equations, that I think are more
stunning and extraordinary.

In particular, he derived the following:

c²(∂τ/∂t)² + (∂x/∂t)² = c² where

τ : time in your clock

t : time in the framework of reference

(∂τ/∂t) : the velocity of your clock

(∂x/∂t) : your spatial velocity

It just says that, in reality, you have 2 velocities: the velocity of your clock (how fast it ticks) and your spatial velocity (the speed familiar to everyone, e.g. I am walking at 20km/h).

And we unify them by defining a velocity in space-time, v defined as the following:

v²=c²(∂τ/∂t)² + (∂x/∂t)²

The point is of course to note, that according to Einstein equation above in purple, v² always equals c².

Beautiful isn't it?

In other words, every system in the universe, from a small particle to human beings, has the speed of light in space-time!

In particular, in the case of a photon,

(∂x/∂t)²=c² so (∂τ/∂t)²=0 , so we find that the clock of a photon is frozen! Time is stopped for a photon;

For systems like human beings or planet Earth,

(∂x/∂t)²~0 so (∂τ/∂t)²~1 (~ means close to) , which explains that time seems absolute and all the same for everyone of us.

Japan and Black Africa.........

I always thought that Japan and Black Africa had some significant interesting common points. 1) A lot of Black African proper names can be easily written in Japanese Kanjis （漢字）: - Bamako→バマコ→場間庫 - Mali→マリ→万理 - Congo→コンゴ→今後 - Kinshasha→金紗車 - Kilimanjaro→キリマンジャロ→霧万蛇路 2) Black African people that come from the above mentioned places can speak and pronounce very well Japanese (including the right prosody). A few examples from the Japanese show biz world （芸能界） - Bobby Ologun - Bernard Ackah 3) Bambara (バンバラ), the language of Mali and Ivory Coast is similar to Japanese. My favorite word is Bele Bele (ベレベレ) meaning "plump buttock". It's similar to those Japanese onomatopoeia like かさかさ、チャラチャラ or even ぴちぴち. By the way, Bambara is a SVO (SOV) language like Japanese language. 4) Japanese pichipichis and Black African pichipichis can be very similar. Compare this and this. 5) In food, there is a common ground between pounding millet and pounding mochi Please tell me if you find some other similarities. ^^ I will sound naive or simplistic for certain people. But I really believe that the difference can be very slight between Japan and certain countries of Black Africa, regarding a limited number of criteria.

Microsoft, the washing powder company

Despite the appearance, Microsoft does not play in the Information Technology industry.

It is just an illusion. No, in reality, Microsoft is in the business of washing powders... and it always has been in its core marketing values.

True, look at this video of Ballmer selling windows 1.0; that makes me think of a P&G salesman trying to convince us to buy "Tide".

The CEO of Micro&Soft, during his appearance at the last "All things digital" with Mossberg, has once more showed this stance and he does not know what technology means and how it will evolve. He really talks about IT as if it were the liquid detergent industry....

When you are a true technologist, it is not about trying "to do better than others in mobile and search" or "taking market shares" from Google, in the first place. He is already late by saying that and reveals he uses old-fashioned marketing methods that worked only in the ancient TV-complex industry.

As a result, Micro&Soft is becoming obsolete even in its original mission: "to put a computer in every desk in every home running Windows": As Steve Jobs said, we are at least in a post-pc era, where computing devices of the size of a pocket are prominent; talking about PC is not relevant any more, big man.

No, the business of a true Information Technology company is to enhance the informational richness of our every-day life by delivering as much as possible relevant & real-time knowledge on the status of our reality; The mission of Google of allowing every people to access to all the information of the world, is one instance.

It is not any longer, since already quite a long time, about selling boxes of OS as if it were boxes of washing powders....