Thursday, January 17, 2019

Wuyi Mountains (China): Stanford "Kofi Annan Commission on Elections/Democracy in Digital Age" * * * Stanford 'eWear Workshop on Biosensors'


President Chinchilla, Ory Okolloh, Professors Stedman, Persily & Fukuyama, 

Thanks for your stellar Stanford "Kofi Annan Commission on Elections/Democracy in Digital Age" panel - https://events.stanford.edu/events/820/82070/ . I wanted to ask about trust, re all platforms' being moderated, and Google as a specific social media platform, but Lisa asked a related question to close the Q&A. I also wanted to ask about how electoral integrity develops in non-English speaking countries, such as Costa Rica, President Chinchilla. (And about law schools in ~200 countries - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1085798533641396224 as well as about teaching "electoral integrity" online - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1086009088339697664 ). 

Here's Tarleton Gillespie on how all platforms are moderated in a recent Harvard Law talk -
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018-10-30/custodians-internet - re his new "Custodians of the Internet" book -  
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300173130/custodians-internet - and which could refer to the platforms of governments' election processes too, I'd think. 

I think Stanford Emeritus Don Knuth, the so called "father of the algorithm" - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ - puts trust first in many ways re computing (and re Google and Stanford). And Google and Stanford have a long relationship together in these regards as well.  (I realized Ory you understand Google from the inside from 2013).

Am appreciative too, however, of the written statements of elections.google on elections - 
https://elections.google/#engaging-voters - and that their track record in many or most countries is now tempered with time. 

Let's stay in touch too about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Kenya World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Kenya - planned in the Swahili language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Swahili (see:  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States). And also about https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Costa_Rica - planned in the Spanish language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Spanish_language . What do you think? And what do you think about CC-4 MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu - as a starting point?

How best too to develop a Kenyan and Costa Rican WUaS online Law Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School ? (See beginning related examples below as well). 

(WUaS's main platforms are Wikidata / Wikibase as "back end" in ~300 languages, with WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki as "front end," CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages, and WUaS is very Google-centric, having Google for Education ... and Google Translate and TensorFlow etc. are very remarkable building blocks as well).

WUaS is also planning online libraries in each of all 7,097 living languages, for example, and free-to-students' online university degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, Medicine, I.B. high school - in Costa Rica and in Kenya. So, in some ways, Costa Ricans, and Kenyan students would get MIT for free. 

(Questions about an Universal Basic Income as a way to distribute a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger with the backing of ~200 countries' central banks - and in Costa Rica and Kenya (and implications for democracy) - will have to wait, as will questions about a realistic virtual earth for all citizens of Costa Rica and Kenya for an UBI for a new approach to addresses, and also possibly re new approaches even to voting). 

To Kofi Anan, and thanks again for your excellent "Elections/Democracy in Digital Age" panel. Thank you.

Best regards, 
Scott





Examples of 
beginning online Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)













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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 



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Dear Profs. Soh, and Salleo, Kris, Angela, Justin and Ryan, 

Thanks so much for your fascinating Stanford 'eWear Workshop on Biosensors' - https://events.stanford.edu/events/817/81783/ .
I asked the question, Alberto and All, about the initial data and measurement systems your amazing "plastic electrochemical devices" were generating (at the molecular level esp.), and also where all this data from biosensors is going to go in general. Why not into a single realistic virtual earth (am thinking Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow / Cloud / Translate for languages, and at the cellular and atomic levels / Project Baseline and with AVATAR BOTS of individuals and species) and for actual-virtual, physical-digital research, and medicine especially? And could ongoing design of "plastic electrochemical devices" within the same single realistic virtual earth offer new approaches to how they might work in other ways, re innovation, and might be used.

And Prof. Soh, in what ways could the data generated from your "real-time bio-molecular sensors" inventions, and the library of 10 trillion molecules, also best inform such a single realistic virtual earth for subsequent experimentation, machine learning and design, plus so much more? The cellular level of such a realistic virtual world would offer make it possible to work with aptamers, DNA and in new ways in relation to the molecular level, for example.  

Thanks so much for your fascinating and astounding research. What an exciting time. Yet it seems like many engineers are using simulations and computer modeling in their own 'ecosystems' that are somehow fragmented. And it also seems that there will be enormous benefits to the developers of a single realistic virtual earth for biomarker data from the growing number of biosensors (am thinking Google-Stanford here, and with Stanford President Emeritus John Hennessy, now as the Chair of Alphabet). 

World University and School seeks to generate online Medical Schools in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages from - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages and CC Yale OYC course ware, but MIT and Yale don't have any Medicine OpenCourseWare for online medical degrees (where WUaS would potentially newly define online medicine), - and potentially with Stanford Medicine itself (and possibly building on the NEJM's continuing medical education CME modules - re Harvard). Linked to each of these online WUAS medical schools in 200 countries' official languages, would be online teaching hospitals, e.g. - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital - with Stanford / Google's Project Baseline developing into avatar bots for patient data (and even, for ex., for thinking through tele-robotic surgery) - and for clinical care. There will be enormous opportunities for biosensor research in such an online platform, with many creative biosensor design opportunities emerging as well, I'd think. 

How might we best communicate further about a single realistic virtual earth for all the data your biosensors will generate, and perhaps also for further design and innovation of such, especially at the molecular and cellular levels, and with individuals' and species' avatar bots for further for wearable biosensor testing + (and e.g how to code for virtual human ammonium in machine learning)?

Beyond this, I wonder how collaborating might work with regard to generating a realistic virtual earth / realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs, my actual-virtual ethnographic field site, where I hope to explore using a myriad of biosensors, especially for studying biology in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool. Brainstorming-wise, and further, how might one study the relaxation response with biosensors in brainwave headsets and at the cellular and atomic levels, from a bath tub, or from the Harbin warm pool (with a different culture, discourse and narratives) with data streaming in real time into a realistic virtual earth for brain / bodymind science, for example? (I blog a lot of the virtual world idea - e.g. here https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20world - and see, too, the 'virtual Harbin' label as well as the 'STEM' and 'Medical Schools' labels).

(‘Enter’ into this realistic virtual world here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - where you can visit the Harbin gate virtually, and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA, to "amble" around the streets there, if interested (accessible from: https://twitter.com/HarbinBook and http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ... the beginnings of a realistic virtual Harbin for soaking :) Part of my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, this realistic virtual Harbin - and EARTH - will get better and better with time (am thinking this will emerge in Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER and with Sansar: re Bernhard Drax – Sansar & Google Streetview? Sansar is a social platform exclusively designed for #VR, inspired by Second Life (SL) - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1075791231483965441).) Let's begin to develop molecular biosensors for avatar bots in such a realistic virtual earth. 

Thanks again for your inspiring, and in some ways incredible, workshop, and looking forward to communicating further in many ways about your great talks, and potential collaborations. 

Best regards, 
Scott









-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 









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