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In a recent broadcast Julian Assange touched on the ripple effect of the information age, his perspective on encryption, and the future of intelligent evil dust. His broadcast was cut shortly after he mentioned the real possibility of a "Laplace's Demon" coming to fruition in the form of a technological smart grid. His focus is on AI, IoT, 5g infrastructure, and micro or nano electronics (smart dust).

Since this thread is about the development of a real time map of casual connections as information components in a bioelectrical physical system, I thought this video would be a nice reference piece for readers.

Be sure to jump to the 50 minute mark, where he talks about human information systems.

Furthermore, be sure to check out the Magnetobiology & Organisms thread. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=173630
Scientific Totalitarianism (our future post 2020) viewtopic.php?f=50&t=166025&start=40
Increase your awareness!

Thanks,

-RT

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FCC Rules Against U.S. Cities to Speed 5G Deployment

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) voted today to curb how much local governments can charge cell carriers to install the network equipment needed for the next generation of cell service.

The ruling comes after a series of standoffs between wireless companies and various U.S. cities over the fees associated with the review process for network construction.

The disputes have arisen as each of the four biggest wireless carriers race to build so-called small cells—more granular subdivisions of service areas that rely on numerous compact antennas placed on buildings, streetlights and other existing structures rather than one big tower.

Small cells have the advantage of being able to transmit data through the high-frequency waves carriers are planning to use for much of their 5G service, which is expected to boost network speeds exponentially. Those waves can transmit more data at faster speeds than the average cell signal and support more use capacity, but they can’t travel very far nor pass through any manner of obstacles.

Wireless companies are thus installing much more equipment in more conspicuous places than ever before, which has raised local concerns around everything from radiation risk to cityscape aesthetics. Until now, the length of the review process and the fees associated with it could also vary greatly from one municipality to another.

The new FCC rules restrict local governments from taking more than 60 to 90 days to review applications and put more restrictions on the fees they can charge, including a cap equal to a “reasonable approximation” of the costs involved in the process.

The motion passed with unanimous support from the four commissioners, despite a partial dissent from the lone Democrat, Jessica Rosenworcel, who criticized the rules for undercutting state and local power.

“In the global race to 5G, the stakes are high—it is about economic leadership for the next decade,” Commissioner Brendan Carr said. “The smart infrastructure policies we adopt today strengthen America’s role as a tech and economic leader, while ensuring that every community benefits from 5G.”

Dozens of cities of all sizes filed complaints opposing the action in the weeks leading up to today’s meeting.

“We oppose this effort to restrict local authority, stymie local innovation and subsidize small cell broadband providers while limiting the obligations providers have to our community,” Lincoln, Neb. mayor Chris Beutler wrote in one such filing.

Lincoln is one of several cities where AT&T and Verizon have halted construction of small cells over what they claim are exorbitant fees. Meanwhile, the industry has deployed lobbyists to push measures like the FCC’s ruling at local, state and federal levels. Twenty states have already passed some form of legislation that places similar restrictions on local review processes for small cells.

Carr cited America’s place in the global arms race to 5G as a rationale for this week’s ruling. Various reports show that the United States is lagging behind China and South Korea in overall 5G deployment, but President Donald Trump’s administration has indicated that catching up is a priority. Telecom lobbyists have often seized on this national interest to push favorable policy, including approval of a proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.

https://www.adweek.com/digital/fcc-rule ... eployment/

Trump officials vow ‘America first, 5G first’

Top White House officials today held a “5G Summit” with one basic message: How can the Trump administration encourage the private sector to deploy 5G as quickly as possible?

The meeting, kept largely under wraps until this morning, essentially serves as a stake in the ground by President Trump to figure out ways to aid wireless carriers and the rest of the wireless industry with regulations that will speed up the deployment of the wireless industry’s next-generation technology.

Although other U.S. government agencies like the FCC and the NTIA have long dealt in spectrum and network deployment issues, the White House summit today was the first major signal by the Trump administration that it also wants to play an active role in smoothing regulations for 5G rollouts. The summit collected executives from the wireless industry with officials from the Trump administration—including Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, and Michael Kratsios, deputy U.S. CTO and deputy assistant to the President at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the agency that held the event—along with top House and Senate lawmakers and officials from the FCC and the NTIA.

Officials described the event as an opportunity for White House representatives to listen to wireless industry executives and to learn ways the Trump administration can play a role in 5G.

But Kudlow—who replaced Gary Cohn as Trump's top economic advisor in May—made it clear that the Trump administration wants to give the wireless industry what it needs to deploy 5G quickly.

Kudlow said the administration is taking an “America first, 5G first” approach to the issue. Specifically, he said the administration will work toward policies—including lower taxes and deregulation—that promote growth in the private sector.

“The White House is behind this free market approach,” he noted.

Kudlow also boasted of the Trump administration’s efforts to encourage U.S. economic growth, particularly through corporate tax cuts. “We’re crushing it, we’re absolutely crushing it,” Kudlow said of the overall U.S. economy. “And I want the 5G to be in that crushing it thing.”

Interestingly, Kudlow said that “I’m not here to make war on China,” in addressing worries that China could overtake the United States in the world’s move toward 5G. But he did say that the administration will work to make sure U.S. companies can compete on the global stage.

“I hope this conference is a great success,” he added.

Other officials speaking publicly at the event included FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the NTIA’s David Redl and Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon. Although most speakers in their opening remarks discussed recent developments in the 5G field—such as the FCC’s recent vote to speed up small cell deployments—a few new, notable topics came up in comments from officials and lawmakers.

Specifically, Rep. Walden noted that the U.S. needs to protect and encourage the supply chain for 5G. Although he did not discuss any specific policies or positions, he did say that “there are some who think we can simply ban vendors from American markets, but the marketplace for hardware and software is global.”

Those comments are particularly noteworthy given that the FCC embarked on a proposal to tacitly block any network operator—big and small—from using Universal Service Funds to purchase equipment from companies that pose a security threat. That proceeding at the FCC is widely seen as an attempt by the U.S. government to block Chinese network equipment vendors Huawei from competing in the market.

Walden did not name Huawei and also did not go into specifics of his position on the topic. No other speakers at the event discussed supply chain issues in their public remarks.

Separately, mid-band spectrum received a notable amount of attention from the likes of Rep. Walden and NTIA’s Redl. Speakers generally argued that a robust 5G marketplace will use a wide range of spectrum, from low-band spectrum to high-band spectrum. Officials and lawmakers acknowledged that the FCC is working to auction high-band spectrum starting in November, but several speakers called on regulators to release more mid-band spectrum for wireless network operators and others.

And Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., also noted that both licensed and unlicensed spectrum should be made available in the marketplace.

After the meeting, CTIA President and CEO Meredith Attwell Baker said in a statement that "it was especially noteworthy that today’s event focused so much on the need to free up more mid-band spectrum for commercial wireless use to help meet this goal and to keep up with skyrocketing consumer demand for mobile data. We look forward to continuing this important dialogue with the Administration and policymakers to make 5G a reality.”

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/trump ... t-5g-first

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Smart Dust Is Coming. Are You Ready?

Imagine a world where wireless devices are as small as a grain of salt. These miniaturized devices have sensors, cameras and communication mechanisms to transmit the data they collect back to a base in order to process. Today, you no longer have to imagine it: microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), often called motes, are real and they very well could be coming to a neighborhood near you. Whether this fact excites or strikes fear in you it’s good to know what it’s all about.

What can smart dust do?

Outfitted with miniature sensors, MEMS can detect everything from light to vibrations to temperature. With an incredible amount of power packed into its small size, MEMS combine sensing, an autonomous power supply, computing and wireless communication in a space that is typically only a few millimeters in volume. With such a small size, these devices can stay suspended in an environment just like a particle of dust. They can:

Collect data including acceleration, stress, pressure, humidity, sound and more from sensors

Process the data with what amounts to an onboard computer system

Store the data in memory

Wirelessly communicate the data to the cloud, a base or other MEMs

3D printing on the microscale

Since the components that make up these devices are 3D printed as one piece on a commercially available 3D printer, an incredible amount of complexity can be handled and some previous manufacturing barriers that restricted how small you can make things were overcome. The optical lenses that are created for these miniaturized sensors can achieve the finest quality images.

Practical applications of smart dust

The potential of smart dust to collect information about any environment in incredible detail could impact plenty of things in a variety of industries from safety to compliance to productivity. It’s like multiplying the internet of things technology millions or billions of times over. Here are just some of the ways it might be used:

Monitor crops in an unprecedented scale to determine watering, fertilization and pest-control needs.

Monitor equipment to facilitate more timely maintenance.

Identify weaknesses and corrosion prior to a system failure.

Enable wireless monitoring of people and products for security purposes.

Measuring anything that can be measured nearly anywhere.

Enhance inventory control with MEMS to track products from manufacturing facility shelves to boxes to palettes to shipping vessels to trucks to retail shelves.

Possible applications for the healthcare industry are immense from diagnostic procedures without surgery to monitoring devices that help people with disabilities interact with tools that help them live independently.

Researchers at UC Berkeley published a paper about the potential for neural dust, an implantable system to be sprinkled on the human brain, to provide feedback about brain functionality.

Disadvantages of smart dust

There are still plenty of concerns with wide-scale adoption of smart dust that need to be sorted out. Here are a few disadvantages of smart dust:

Privacy concerns:

Many that have reservations about the real-world implications of smart dust are concerned about privacy issues. Since smart dust devices are miniature sensors they can record anything that they are programmed to record. Since they are so small, they are difficult to detect. Your imagination can run wild regarding the negative privacy implications when smart dust falls into the wrong hands.

Control:

Once billions of smart dust devices are deployed over an area it would be difficult to retrieve or capture them if necessary. Given how small they are, it would be challenging to detect them if you weren’t made aware of their presence. The volume of smart dust that could be engaged by a rogue individual, company or government to do harm would make it challenging for the authorities to control if necessary.

Cost:

As with any new technology, the cost to implement a smart dust system that includes the satellites and other elements required for full implementation is high. Until costs come down, it will be technology out of reach for many.

What should you do to prepare?

The entities who have led the development of smart dust technology since 1992 and large corporations such as General Electric, Cargill, IBM, Cisco Systems and more who invested in research for smart dust and viable applications believe this technology will be disruptive to economies and our world.

At the moment, many of the applications for smart dust are still in the concept stage. In fact, Gartner listed smart dust technology for the first time in its Gartner Hype Cycle in 2016. While the technology has forward momentum, there’s still quite a bit to resolve before you will see it impacting your organization. However, it’s important to pay attention to its trajectory of growth, because it’s no longer the fodder of science fiction. We might not know when it will progress to the point of wide-scale adoption, but we certainly know it’s a question of when rather than if.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmar ... b626fd5e41

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Lectures by Robert Duncan, author of Project: Soul Catcher: Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed.

He's a very elusive person. It's hard to find info on him, but his presentation is full of important information. Here's something I found on Amazon, under the review section.

I have no way to verify everything in this book but I've been following Dr. Duncan for a while and he's a really smart guy regardless. The book is definitely worth the money. I decided to look him up on the Harvard website and there is in fact a Robert P. Duncan that wrote a thesis "Computer Generated Holograms". You can go directly to the Harvard Library website and search the title if this link doesn't work. I also took a screen shot and attached it to this review. [...]

Here's a link to the thesis: https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explor ... 5250003941

Duncan joined William Binney (NSA whistleblower) for an interview in 2015...