Earlier we wrote about what we call ‘Hypertransparency’ as the new standard for business around the world. Not secrecy or corporate privacy protection but on the contrary, an open protocol for all business transactions, payments activities. Why? Because our planet is being razed by companies that like secrecy because what they do is against the will of a majority of the stakeholders, those that live on or in the land where they do business.
Hypertransparency to create a globally shared reality
At the same time it’s clear no online transmission or phone call remains untracked. The existence of giant datacenters storing each and every detectable move of any individual has been reported. It has been demonstrated no CCTV footage of smartphone is safe, and that is probably only the tip of the surveillance iceberg. Surveilance that creates two sides : The one observing en the one being observed. That split can be the engine of a societal division and power structure on it’s own, no need for banks or armies.
Citizens are not incouraged to be observers. An 75 year prison sentence for a man recording video of police action proves this point. The power difference not only lies in the action that can be taken, but also in the (shared) perception of reality and evidence gathering that is allowed. Police are growing more brutal everywhere, the author witnessed a young man carried by 4 policemen over 100 meter without any reason right in the middle of Rotterdam, without any emergency or threat as an excuse. This type of behavior is intimidating, demoralizing and unwanted in a free society. People are not puppets and things should not get worse. There is no reason for things to get more dire, just that we change course regarding the nature of our economy.
We need more free thought, not more conformity. Conformity can be a sign of brainwashing (J van Meerloo)
With all this in mind the solutions are several, and because it’s an existential battle between those that try to consolidate and protect the ruling system and those that see its flaws, who are wrongly identified as a threat. All systems need an ‘out’ a way to change it. If that way is not build in as with democracy (replace the brains with new better ones by public vote), a system will consolidate and petrify (this is happening with China atm). An entire country can become a blind force ready to crash into anything if its government becomes reliant on propaganda and terrorizes its citizens into mindless conformity.
The solution is free speech, and per extention, in Hypertransparency.
An idea, or more an image got stuck in my head a few days after writing the first hypertransparency article, it was that of a lightbulb in an big space, surrounded by glass fiber endings, as the core of some giant server. It was a materialization of the concept, it was a way to make an incorruptible broadcasting device. The single source of information (transmitted by the light) would channel all transactions and make them available to all listeners exactly at the same instant. That way nobody would have to doubt the veracity of the data. Neutrino detectors would be a good example of the device, hence the picture above. They are built to detect tiny flashes resulting from the collision of water and neutrinos.
A single source transmits all commercial data to all
It seems irony that to get all people on the same page one would have to build the inverse of a sun, an internal sun that treats all participating in the global organization equally. But it is not irony, it is logical, that the same process that treats plants and animals equally, the same type of process that makes us treat people equally, would have to develop to make our automated mechanical reality work in synchrony and fairness.
Hypertransparency is a better fix than laws that need to be agreed an applied globally, because that system is so easy to corrupt. The problem is identity : As soon as people stop identifying with each other they stop treating each other equally. Human rights can be ignored, so a solution has to be found that bypasses differences of identity by creating a globally shared experience.
Of course we have a system like this at the moment, it is called Twitter.
Right now the thing closest to the device described is Twitter, which allows any world citizen to share his/her thoughts with in theory all others instantly. Its system of timestamping the thought, distributing it (and monitoring it) and leaving it accessible over time is totally unique.
The above device is a lightsource that would be able to transmit the datastream to listeners, like an internal sun in the neutrino detector, but of course we would not need a detector that sensitive, just a way to detect the data transmitted in a way that ensures all obeservers share the same ‘reality’. But we have in fact a device that can do what would be needed for global hypertransparency, in operation at Los Alamos laboratories for 2 years now : Quantum encryption. What is it? A device that transmits data from a central hub to ‘ends of the spokes’ with no possibility of tampering with it. The only place one can tamper with the data is before it is send. Full throtle irony : It’s developed with secrecy in
“Quantum cryptography is the Eldorado of security, promising the potential for perfect communications secrecy. The concept is easy to understand. The laws of quantum mechanics state at the photon level, a particle cannot be measured without altering it. A message encoded in photons could not be read without altering it – which means the recipient will always know if it has been intercepted.”(source)
Quantum encryption is not encryption at all. It is just a way to send signals so that natures laws don’t allow you to detect them without leaving a trace. So you write your letter on super vulnerable paper, put it in a tube, tie it to a pigeon and whomever reads it before it reaches it’s destination will damage it so much it is obvious it was compromised.
Why does equal access to information symbolize democracy and justice? Because it makes it impossible to escape responsibility in the face of the shared reality.
Quantum encryption is kind of hard to pull off, but it does guarantee all recievers get the same message, just like they looked at exactly the same data, although not at the same time. The idea is to develop quantum routers, that somehow can interact with the data and route it. This is not possible by definition without destoying the original message, leaving room for tampering or secrecy. Hypertransparency would argue encryption is to be avoided in all cases, so there is no loss. But to implement a quantum data system why not use space. Why not create a network of satellites that form a mesh of transmitters and recievers, able to compare data from multiple sources (visible satellites) to resolve the right data to transmit, a bit like GPS. Again we see that tampering with reality becomes harder when more eyes are on it. If we want to respond adequately though it is paramount we start sharing it hypertransparently.
Smart use of our planet and suns resouces would mean abundance for all. The struggle is caused by those that want to leverage scarce fossil fuels in an artificial financial and media reality
A more practical incarnation of the concept would be a simple webservice accesible to all to report transactions, messages and contracts. Like an open administration now already demanded by the tax office and accountancy firms. www.transparency.org/shell