Global Technology Resistance and Obstacles

Sluggish social technological progression due to global unwillingness to share human knowledge at zero cost.

Systemic Profit Motives:

The main obstacle to realizing critical technologies to support the future social needs of the human race is still the mentality of “What’s in it for me?” The current era rewards advancing technologies and ideas for profit. While successfully implementing any of the proposals in the current era will produce respectable profits, the primary motive should be to implement them in preparation for facilitating permanent global transformations from competition to pure cooperation.

Contemplations of future technologies are frequently focused or otherwise misdirected toward profit and monetized objectives. Shift focus to optimize human advancement within a non-monetized and non-compensation social structure. This is the only policy that will be eventually applauded such that all global citizens win.

Less Capable Global Citizens:

Humanity acquired a vast and ever increasing body of knowledge in sciences and technologies, yet only a limited global few have full access to it. It is partially taught in universities to those capable of paying with money or debt.  It is partially transferred from parent to child. In the modern era, it is partially available via the internet as text, audio or video.

The modern proposed strategy to maximize global access and transfer of this knowledge is from totally free, real-time or prerecorded video lectures and training broadcasts from the internet. In this regard, the G E T V P  Free Global Education proposal will close the global education gap to advance world education and qualification levels to meet future demands. Global education capacity must not be overlooked as a critical component of  sustained technology advancement in the future.

Coveting Technology and Social Stagnation:

One of the greatest obstacles to shared human technological advancement is when governments or other entities deny advanced scientific knowledge and technologies from the global community. This practice debilitates human advancement in many areas. Obvious ramifications are unrealized energy and transportation technologies to benefit mankind in the current era.

There are numerous advanced projects known only to a relative few in comparison to the global population they represent and serve. These relative few decide when and if projects and knowledge are declassified and released for public dissemination and consideration. The relevant question is whether or not the benefits of coveting by entities outweigh the global benefits of releasing advancement data for the potential benefit of all global citizens. Know that entities often make decisions based on their restricted realm of primary responsibility and perhaps without responsible and thoughtful consideration or advisement from global representation.

One argument in support of coveting technologies is the security of nations. Current world competition models encourage and require secrecy, deception, division and coveting efforts to seek the advantage. These efforts may have some merit while playing certain friendly games during spare time among friends. But these same efforts continue to solidify divisions among the human race in the current competitive world model where some must win and some must lose. National security obstacles can be removed to the extent that relevant governments and global entities replace competitive models and ideals with cooperative models and ideals. In essence, all nations and all peoples worldwide must think and work to achieve the same global objectives, principles and highest ideals for all of the human race while respecting specific cultural and other internal interests not conflicting with global highest ideals. In doing so, competition is discouraged and cooperation is encouraged. Therefore, security issues would eventually be limited to rare occurrences. Removing common national security vulnerabilities will enable historically coveting governments and entities to shift towards rapid release of advanced technologies and knowledge for the benefit of the global population.

Among free nations, individuals enjoy the freedom to pursue all knowledge, in theory. But relevant knowledge-coveting entities will neither assist truth-seeking individuals nor publicly and formally confirm evidences or speculations regarding classified  programs. In this regard, truth-seeking individuals and other global citizens they support are denied access to global advancement knowledge opportunities by relevant entities and may represent a legal and currently acceptable form of oppression against the advancement of humanity, sharing of technologies, human intelligence and global progress with security as the justification.

One can speculate of the many employees who swear to protect secret programs that, if released, would dramatically alter the human experience and perception for better or worse. They go home unable to share the details of their day to loved ones. They may bear the burdens only to those with sufficient clearance and need-to-know in the performance of their duties. The loved ones of loyal workers are also affected by the burden of secrecy. Secrecy will always be deemed necessary while humans continue the current global competitive model. Secrecy would, however, be less necessary when mankind acquires the wisdom to choose the pure cooperative operating model.

One can argue that a standing governing policy of denying advanced scientific knowledge and technologies from the global community may debilitate mankind such that it may be classified as relative oppression of mankind, as global citizens are often unaware of coveted programs that could have significant civilian advancement applications. Of course, applicable governments expect to benefit from their classified, coveted projects. Coveting knowledge can often preempt the expansion of broadly shared energy, transportation and communication technologies to name only a few. Citizens of all ages worldwide are denied new interest in advanced sciences primarily due to ignorance of the possibilities. Although independently sufficient to justify replacing coveting policies with full global cooperation, such denials or stagnations of social technologies are small components of the total price humans pay to continue coveting policies and beliefs in order to achieve and sustain advantages within world competition models.

Technology Commercialization Versus Free Access:

One recent and free access technology that changed the world is the internet. It would be undesirable and unimaginable for human civilization to interact without open internet access available to the public at zero cost. Because of the sustainable global benefits, every effort should be made to advance new technologies on a zero cost basis.

Even after end products are purchased, often owners must pay extra for access to associated repair and technical manuals. This statement assumes that such references are made available to the public at all. In the current era, for example, automotive repair manuals range from about $15 for a basic level reference up to in excess of $1,000 for a full factory level reference, all to advance profits. This discourages many do-it-yourself repairs and encourages regular dependencies on commercial repair facilities for a fee. Because of the lack of free access to this knowledge, there will continue to be less residential global citizens capable of assisting others with automotive-related diagnostic and repair needs. This strategy continues to sprout global citizens who are less capable and less secure in their aptitudes for mechanical understanding and for repairing their own vehicles. Simply put, these strategies produce global citizens who are less capable and less secure. This policy example reinforces how the human race has lost its way in discerning what is in their best long-term, global advancement interests.

Choosing Competition Versus Cooperation:

Humanity must shift from competition to cooperation for open knowledge sharing and every other endeavor. Making all technological references freely available via the internet is an initial step towards a globally intelligent sharing policy.

Sluggish social technological progression due to global unwillingness to share human knowledge at zero cost.

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