e of every capability of the WEB 2.0 protocol - before we even start considering the use
of WEB 3.0 - to simulate real methods of open and disparate discussions, down the pub so to
speak, it is doomed to failure from a truly synergetic stand-point. Needless to say the seed that
was zaadz has been sown and blossomed in many ways, and although the window of opportunity
which WEB 2.0 presented is now almost closed, who knows what the future of the WEB and its
potential 10 billion users will bring !!!???
During the early part of my training as a civilian pilot/air traffic controller in the 1960's I was first
introduced to the mind-blowing experience of "flying" a de Havilland Trident Simulator. It was
mind-blowing for me, as a dyslexic 3D thinker, because my own vision as a child was of a future
time when we would be able to personally experience a simulation of the reality such that we
would not be able to tell the difference between the simulation and the reality. It had been
because of the support from my parents and their parents that I had succeeded in getting into
that simulator in the first place, but along the way I had been exposed to all of their diverse
spiritual & scientific beliefs despite the fact that they all subscribed to a similar set of values and
principles. As a result I was set on my own journey of discovery for the scientific reasoning for
mine and others personal experiences of spiritual connectivity. My eventual qualification as a joint
civilian/military air traffic controller took me to places I could not have even imagined - to the
point where I was being invited by the likes of IBM to present to them personal computer driven
multi-media simulations of future 3D global radar scenarios.
During the nascency of the world-wide web, discussions with Hewlett Packard, Kodak & Phillips
suggested the possibility of establishing a very powerful consumer driven social networking
environment, based on discussions about the implications and applications of the still to be
ratified WEB 2.0 protocol. As has often been the case, in my experience, existing companies have
been slow to react to the invariably small window of opportunity with which they are faced and
so it was with HP, Phillips and then Kodak. In the meantime the likes of Friendster and Myspace
appeared on the scene without incorporating the really powerful development capabilities which
the WEB 2.0 protocol provided for. So it was during 2005 that I became aware of a team of people
who were fully WEB 2.0 savvy, led by a man called Brian Johnson, working on a project called
ZAADZ. From the day of BETA launch I watched from afar and became mightily impressed by
every aspect of the ZAADZ initiative and so it was after some nearly six months I plunged in
head-first.
In the meantime I continue to cherish what was and try to NOT forget that we are what we are
in some small and even significant way, because of our TIME@zaadz.
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Added by Michael Grove at 16:31 on September 10, 2013
in
Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, and it was there that Kirby Laing
gave the name to the Thermalite block, a lightweight building brick
developed from pulverised fuel ash which was and remains immensely
successful in its field. I can only imagine that it was because of
John Laing's connection with South Africa that my father spoke so
highly of the spacial ability of the Zulus and their expertise in the
rapidity of Bailey Bridge construction, which the Royal Engineers were
tasked with during WWII and it was Kirby Laing who succeeded in
convincing his father to release him to serve in the Royal Engineers
during the last two years of the war. Following the consequences of the
explosion of a land-mine in North Africa, whilst serving as a Royal
Engineer in the Eigth Army, my father spent 6 months in a Hospital
in Alexandia, Egypt, before then becoming involved with the allied
push across the German defensive Gustav line towards Rome, after
a landing in Italy directly from North Africa, by way of his hands-on
involvement with the building of the Bailey Bridges over which the likes
of Richard Glover's Tank Commander father pushed towards ROME
following the capture of Monte Cassino, whilst my soul-mate Linnie’s
father Ronald Arthur Yardley provided telecommunications support
throughout the push to Rome and thence the North, until the German
surrender.
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of the first TEST COLOUR TRANSMISSIONS from the BBC • had himself
been offered a job at Goonhilly Down, by GPO Telecommunications,
well before researchers started to investigate packet switching • a
technology that sends a message in portions to its destination
asynchronously without passing it through a centralised mainframe •
but having travelled there by train from where the family were living in
Kentish Town, North London, he was unable to find somewhere for the
family to live locally, and so could not take up the position that he had
been offered. Thankfully not long after, the doctor who was attending
Linnie’s brother Terry, who suffered terribly during the days of the
smog in London, arranged for the family to move to their new home in
Borehamwood. When I started training as an Air Traffic Controller,
cutting my teeth so to speak, on the study of IBM 64K core-store
mainframe systems analysis, as well as all things technologically
related to primary and secondary radar systems, you can just imagine
the conversations that I had with Ron, and not long after I had asked
him for his daughter’s hand in marriage, that a telecommunications
network protocol emerged which constituted the beginnings of the
ARPANET, which by 1981 had grown to 213 nodes. ARPANET
eventually merged with other networks to form the INTERNET
and while Internet development was a focus of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) who published a series of Request for Comment
documents, other networking advancement occurred in industrial
laboratories, such as the local area network (LAN) developments of
Ethernet (1983) and the Token Ring Protocol of 1984.
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