Technoforce: Forging a Global Village

By Karl Kimball

Societies are being changed by the uncontrollable force of science and technology, technoforce. Like an opioid, technoforce creates an insatiable addiction for technology by creating societal dependencies controlled by a new generation of industrialists.  Civilization is the tale of three revolutions. The first revolution attained individual freedom, the second revolution was the industrial revolution, and the third revolution is a battle with intelligent machines for ownership of our individual freedoms. After 250 years, individual freedom has been lost. Most people are unaware that the third revolution has already begun. Marshall McLuhan in the1950s envisioned a global village that embraced technology. His view is machines are extensions to ourselves as individuals. Civilization is on the brink of annihilation by machines capable of destroying civilization. This is a far cry from McLuhan's vision. Civilization has progressed closer to destruction, not further away. Technoforce, Forging of a Global Village, outlines the change in human civilization due to the influence of technoforce, provides an understanding of how it works, and a path to a global village. Technoforce represents the problem and the solution for humanity to a better future. It is a must-read, non-technical book about the cyclical path of dominance, privilege, and enslavement through technology . 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karl Kimball
• Release date: Sep 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393799085

Karl Kimball

Karl Kimball graduated from Catholic High School for Boys in Memphis Tennessee. He attended the University of Dallas on scholarship but transferred to the University of Texas at Arlington. He worked himself through college and graduated with a degree in mathematics. He entered the workforce and has held executive leadership roles in start-ups as well as major companies.    

Book preview

Technoforce

Forging a Global Village

Preamble

A Global Village

Force of Science

Societal Structures

Influence of Technology

Consequences of Convenience

Design Principle of Abstraction

Words matter

Language & Technology

Jumping off a Bridge

Three Soldiers

Fibonacci Numbers

Psychology of language

The Communication Medium Gap

Machine-to-Machine Language

Man-to-Machine Communications

Alexa Speak

Inversion of Control

Technoforce

The Influencing force of Technology

Influence vs Force

Gravity and Magnetism

Pebbles Metaphor

Technoforce components

Ƭ as a Force

Society as Mass

Collaboration as Acceleration

Education as a Weight i.e., coefficient

Ƭ Notation

United States

European Union

Allied and Axis Powers

USA Strategy for Building a Grand Societal Structure

The Krell Civilization

Time Travel Phenomenon

Technoforce Time Travel Phenomenon

Grandfather Paradox

Twin Paradox

Butterfly Effect

Theoretical Example: Katy’s Drone

Ƭ(Industrialization)

Mass Production

Commoditization

Through the Looking-Glass

Industrialized Technology Wealth Creation

Democratization of Education

Democratization of Technology

Programming Tools and Languages

Final steps to Democratization of Technology

Commoditization of Innovation

Machine Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Turing Test

Replacement Test

Companion Test

Global Society of the Machines

APIs are eating the Software!

Advanced API/Machine Societal Structure

Global Communities of Human Computer Engineers

Ƭ(Computers)

Computer Commoditization

Personal Computer

Man/Machine Culture

Displacing Human Cultural Inertia

Application Program Interfaces (APIs): Machine Minions

Machine Role Classification

Machine Ecosystems

Cloud Architecture

Solid (ICE)

Liquid (Water)

Cloud (Gas)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Ultimate Machine Extensibility

Soul to Souless

Cloud Virtually Extends Reality

Importance of Communications

5G Wireless Network Technology

SAC and World War III

Total Destructive Power & Recall Capability

T(Biophone): A Peek into the Future Communications

Third World Economic Impact by Cellphones

Interaction of Ƭ Functions: Ƭ(f)

Ƭ (Binary Star) Metaphor

Ƭ(automobile)

Autonomous Self Driving Automobile

Transportation as a Service

Automobile Rental Industry Disruption

Ƭtime(airlines)

Continued Stress on the US airline Industry

Ƭtime(automobile) and Ƭtime(airlines) Symbiosis

Ƭtime(automobile) and Ƭtime(airlines) Competition

Forging A Global Village

The Third Revolution

Individual Problems are Societal Problems

Carpe Diem

Epilogue to a Global Village

Preamble

My first childhood recollections were living in my grandfather’s three-story tenement house on Florence street in Brockton Massachusetts. My aunt, Eileen, lived on the first floor with my cousins Bobby, Judy, Glenn, and my Uncle Chet. My mother and I lived on the third floor. My grandparents, Gramps and Nanna lived on the second floor. Bobby and I often slept together on any floor we wished because there were beds and blankets available. My main chore was to run errands for my grandmother and lug coal from the basement. I was repeatedly warned not to go into the basement when the coal truck delivered because I would get buried and die. There was a barn in the backyard and Gramps once kept a horse and wagon there. Going out our backyard, I could cross a large parking lot of an A&P grocery store. Backed up to the parking lot opposite to my grandfather’s was my uncle Pauly’s house. It also was a three-story tenement house. I often went there to play with my cousins’ Paula and Little Pauly. Uncle Pauly was a fireman and worked at a fire station that is still in service after 125 years. Bobby and I often visited uncle Pauly at the fire station on our way to Monticello Park where we played sandlot baseball. The fire station had a tower for a watchman to look over Brockton for smoke from a burning building.

A few houses down from us, my cousin Judy played with a boy being raised by his grandmother. His mother died from blood loss during a tooth extraction. The problem was Judy played dolls with him. I occasionally went with her. Judy said his grandmother was raising him like a girl. I did not really think about that, but they had fun while I mostly watched. I did not have any dolls, but I did cook meals in a toy kitchen for everyone. 

My biological father visited me on Florence street. I remember he often bedeviled me while I rolled on the ground trying to escape. I did not think much about not having a father because Bobby’s dad Uncle Chet, Gramps, and Uncle Pauly were around. Chet dropped Bobby and I at the movie theater nearly every Saturday. We could see two movies, a cartoon, and a newsreel for 25 cents. No matter the season, Bobby and I went to the movies. Uncle Chet would give me an additional 25 cents so Bobby and I could dine at Nemo’s on hotdogs and sodas before our long walk home.

Gramps was an artist as he would recall. He painted signs, houses, and just about anything. He drank a lot and when he drank enough, we would ask him to show us his tattoos. Our favorite was a half-naked woman on his forearm. He would roll his arm muscles and make her dance. It was quite impressive.

Almost 5 decades have passed. My cousin Bobby lives in Houston and I live in Austin. We often talk. Although he is 3 years older, he recalls our childhood and highlights my many feats of bravery. For example, when I taught him how to cut in the ticket line at the movies, just pick out old people and they do not care. Bobby is still grateful for that advice.

I learned about the concept of Global Village from the writings of visionary and philosopher, Marshall McLuhan. I have come to realize that I once lived in such a place and I would wish such an experience for everyone.

A Global Village

Global Village was coined by Marshall McLuhan as a metaphor for a future global society that harkens back to an idyllic societal structure, likened to that of a village but on a global scale. McLuhan spoke about what joins us and not what divides. In his global village, the problems of an individual are the problems of the community. McLuhan’s vision of a global village did not spawn controversy but embracement and raised questions about a future shared by everyone. There are many implications of connecting all peoples across all societies through common values while still respecting cultural and religious diversity. A global village can be conceptually grasped; however, the real challenge is how to build a global village. Manufacturing a Global Village seems to embrace a society where the manufacturing process creates a better human lifestyle through machines. Dependencies on a machine-based society requires the embracement of the things we flee when we contemplate a global village. Forging a global village invokes a more primitive process where manufacturing and machines are replaced by people. The image of a blacksmith hammering metal in a fiery forge returns to the imagery of a village. The blacksmith, as an individual, works with individuals to forge solutions for individuals. The forge for a global societal structure is a forge fired by science and technology.

Science and technology have grown beyond the comprehension of any individual. Cadres of scientists and engineers are the blacksmiths of today. To fill the comprehension gap, machines grow in intelligence. In doing so, machines become the essential McLuhanian extension of mankind. The challenge of harnessing science and technology is the challenge of managing the human to machine relationship. As machines grow more intelligent, people grow more dependent on machines with the concern of the servant becoming the master. Machines force mankind to adapt to them. The dilemma of intelligent machines is best captured in a Star Trek episode by Spock, Computers[intelligent machine] make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. - Star Trek, season 2, episode 24 (The Ultimate Computer, 1968).

Force of Science

Science drives civilization to a destiny.  Science is an inescapable force that has always influenced societal transformation over other influences. A full understanding of everything science is not necessary to understanding how to use science or to create technology. Primitive science could be grasped in its entirety by an individual, but contemporary science requires an army of individual experts with narrow, deep knowledge. Scientists are not historically societal leaders but are only influencers, even though science ultimately produces technologies that influences everything in our future societal path. The gap between science and society has been filled by philosophers, historians, and politicians. No scientist has ever become president. Presidential ranks are filled by politicians, militarists, and a few industrialists. Almost all of these possess only basic understanding of science. The scientists and engineers drive society to a destiny unknown