Time for Accountable Disclosure

When I was a kid growing up in the 1950's, we had a single household rotary dial phone. I still remember the number – PLYMOUTH-6056; I remember being told to keep calls short in length because long distance charges were expensive. The first handheld mobile phones emerged sometime in the mid 1970's; they were even more expensive, but a necessary upgrade for anyone seriously wanting to do business on the go. As tariffs on phone service dropped, communications on both land lines and mobile phones exploded. I owned a telecom reseller company in the 1980's and was spending over a thousand dollars a month for business calls at the best rates available at the time. By the mid-1980's, people lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phones at upwards of four grand a pop. At two pounds they would hold a charge for about half an hour before needing recharged overnight. But that was progress, and these bricks sold like hotcakes. Then we look at today's communication devices with touch screens and unlimited access and storage, sold at cheaper and cheaper rates with more whistles and bells and power than our astronauts found necessary to get to and from the moon. We've come a long way, baby.

All information technology in our modern world has come onto the scene in just such an explosive exponential fashion, largely the result of the brilliance of American ingenuity. In many respects, it is becoming harder and harder to keep up with the ever-changing proliferation of our own profound innovative creations.

Then I look at transportation. Automobiles work pretty much the same as they did when my father drove a large shiny "boat" following World War II. Today, cars are not really much different than computers on wheels, even as we witness a merging of artificial intelligence with our automobiles to make them smarter and safer. But when we sit down in the driver's seat, start the engine, and put 'er in gear, a car is still a car is still a car. The principle of personal transportation, in reality, has not changed much from the dreams of Henry Ford.

The same thing could be said of airplanes. We are still filling the tank of our airliners with fossil fuel and depending upon Bernoulli's principle to lift us off the runway pretty much the same way the Wright Brothers did from the beginning. The Boeing 777-class aircraft that I fly in today doesn't look or feel much different than the 727-class craft I first traveled in back in 1972. It cost me over $500 to go coast to coast round trip then, while it costs me only $300 for the same flight today, but then the airlines fed me a hot meal at no extra cost and offered me more leg room back then. Relative costs have gone down dramatically, and I like to think safety has improved, but an airplane ride is still pretty much the same old same old technology as from its inception.

And what happened to NASA? President John Kennedy set down a daunting challenge and within a handful of years American astronauts walked on the moon and returned safely. Aside from a brief foray into shuttles and the international space station, do you really think our national dream to adventure into space bottomed out long ago? And do you think like I do that in fifty years our best and brightest should certainly have been able to come up with something better than just shooting rockets into space like a bullet? Modern rocketry has not moved beyond the 1960's in the most innovative technologically-advanced country in the world. Really?

It all works great – the way things are, however. No complaints, really. But living in the most resourceful, innovative country the world as we do, one has to wonder why science has not applied innovation to the technology of personal and public transportation in the manner we have seen in the personal communication and information industries. The natural rate of technological progression should be exponential across all fields, shouldn't it? Are you telling me we have not advanced any further in a century which has been otherwise an unprecedented time in human history where science and innovation has exploded?

One would have to think that someone is holding out on us. The only technological advancements that have been shared with us seem to be those where the mighty corporate behemoths could maintain control and make a buck off of us. If it was not deemed to be profitable, innovation has not even proceeded linearly - flatlining for much of the last century.

Any innovation that has had the potential to decentralize control over people's lives has been held up or shelved - like free energy and electrogravitics. Just how much have we been misled, and by whom (if you don't already know)? While we have become accustomed to hearing about fake news, the news is no more fake than is science or medicine or our education system. Conspiracy theory? Nope. None of what we are taught about dark holes, and gravity, and space travel is current, for instance. How much of the rest of what we are taught is unadulterated distracting or entertaining bullshit designed to keep us in check? And how much has Big Pharma held humanity back from moving beyond the unnecessary misery and suffering of preventable degenerative and otherwise iatrogenic disease? These are questions we need to be asking. These are answers we need to be pursuing when we stand up and demand full accountability and a disclosure of the whole truth.