a true real-time democracy was on the way. “One day soon,” he said, “we will be able to click a thing on our wrist to say ‘I like it’ or ‘I don’t like it,’ and that will be our vote.” Bucky’s ideas generally came about fifty years in advance of reality, which means real-time democracy should arrive by about 2020. Considering recent political events, another Bucky thought to ponder is this: “When something is broken, don’t try to fix it. Create a new model that renders the old one obsolete.” Bucky said successful global air traffic control is proof that we can cooperate despite our differences. “You may ask how we are going to resolve the ever-accelerating dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas,” he said. “I answer, it will be resolved by the computer. While no politician or political system can afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opponents, all politicians can and will yield to the computer’s safe flight-controlling capabilities and bring all humanity in for a happy landing.” Surely there will soon be an app for that.
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Added by Michael Grove at 11:26 on December 17, 2017
Boeing 747 land at Heathrow after I had guided it onto approach from London Radar, which was situated then on the north side of the airport.
Whether or not the delayed take-off of the return flight, due to mechanical failure, was a harbinger of things to come it was this exact same plane that was lost in the horrific accident at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, which resulted in -
the worst air crash ever, when a KLM 747 smashed into this self same PanAm 747 on the runway in March 1977.
It was during the time between these two events that Linnie & I were both happy for me to be seconded to the Eurocontrol upper airspace agency in the early 1970s prior to the UK becoming a member of the EEC - because of our commitment to the idea of a union of the peoples of Europe - but we soon, even then, became very aware of the burgeoning bureaucracy of that system and the corruptive payments that the EEC were making to the likes of bargees travelling to and fro across borders to claim "subsidies" several times over - without a shed of cargo on board. As an Air Traffic Radar Controller with the specific task of keeping aircraft at least 5miles and 1000ft apart it was certainly a wake up call to realise that each of the nationalities in Eurocontrol had a different common-sense attitude towards the task in hand - despite the fact English was the only language of communication for air traffic movements. The next 3 years or so of living with the peoples of Europe could not have been bettered but it was eventually the dissolution of those very people with the European Project, themselves, that influenced our decision to return to the UK - and we have never regretted that decision despite many subsequent trips to places throughout Europe and return visits to the friends that we made.
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ers I've ever worked with. Her partner Matthew came to California to visit me and have a photo session with me and through him, I felt as if she was all of our sister.
This is her autobiology on siona's personal website. It's quite prolific. I recommend Dictionary.com to gain a broader insight into the writing.…