OBRA MAESTRA

2007 – Marseille – FRANCE : TIME: 5:30 PM -

As I am writing on my pc* I can hear the children back home from school shouting, and laughing here in the sunny streets of  Southern  FRANCE….

The children, our future…

- BOSTON – USA - (early 90’s) -In those days as a foreign student (French) in the USA it was a requirement to digest Mr. Gore:”Earth in the Balance” book… (BIOL G141 – Biology Class- named: “Life in the Balance”).

This Biology Course based on Mr. Gore’s book opened my eyes: our “Nest” planet Earth was in imminent danger!

I believe Mr. Gore was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize because he is a man with a vision, a man of peace*.

He has an uncany ability to see the future (cf.“climate crisis”...), to find a way out the maze (* cf. Gore opposed the Vietnam War…).

He makes patterns where the average man sees only confusion (cf.”The Assault on Reason“…) and he tells the truth (cf.“An Inconvenient Truth“)…

Let’s look at… How he relates the past with the future…following in his dad’s foosteps… and How he was able to surf on the “Interstate highway system” and bring the “Internet Puzzle” to the average “world citizen”…

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* March 9, 1999 during CNN’s “Late Edition” show.Specifically, what Gore said was “I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the term “information superhighway” became a sort of mantra in Gore’s speeches. Some observers, in fact, credit Gore with coining that very term.

Actually, for Senator Gore to seek to build a national data network analogous to the interstate highway system should not surprise us; his father, Al Gore Sr., as a senator in the 1950s was a major proponent of the creation of the Interstate Highway System, modeled after the German autobahns.

No doubt Gore Jr. was inspired by the model and metaphor of his father’s efforts. Gore Jr.’s remarks in 1989 reflect this throwback to Gore pere’s earlier role:

THREE YEARS AGO, ON THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM, I SPONSORED THE SUPERCOMPUTER NETWORK STUDY ACT TO EXPLORE A FIBER OPTIC NETWORK TO LINK THE NATION’S SUPERCOMPUTERS INTO ONE SYSTEM.

HIGH-CAPACITY FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS WILL BE THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS OF TOMORROW. A NATIONAL NETWORK WITH ASSOCIATED SUPERCOMPUTERS AND DATA BASES WILL LINK ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS AND INDUSTRY IN A NATIONAL COLABORATORY.

THIS INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE WILL CLUSTER RESEARCH CENTERS AND BUSINESSES AROUND NETWORK INTERCHANGES, USING THE NATION’S VAST DATA BANKS AS THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR INCREASING INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY, CREATING NEW PRODUCTS, AND IMPROVING ACCESS TO EDUCATION.

LIBRARIES, RURAL SCHOOLS, MINORITY INSTITUTIONS, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE SAME NATIONAL RESOURCES — DATA BASES, SUPERCOMPUTERS, ACCELERATORS

– AS MORE AFFLUENT AND BETTER KNOWN INSTITUTIONS. CAN WE RELY ON THE MARKET SYSTEM TO PROVIDE THIS KIND OF INFRASTRUCTURE? WE CERTAINLY COULDN’T WHERE THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM WAS CONCERNED, ALTHOUGH PRIVATE INDUSTRY ULTIMATELY BENEFITED A GREAT DEAL FROM THE GOVERNMENT’S LEADERSHIP AND INVESTMENT.

I BELIEVE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST AGAIN BE A CATALYST, TO GET COMPANIES INTERESTED IN THOSE INFORMATION NETWORKS AND SHOW THEM THAT THERE IS A MARKET OUT THERE. CLEARLY, THE TECHNOLOGICAL SPINOFFS AND PRODUCTIVITY GAINS WOULD BE ENORMOUS, FROM A NETWORK THAT WOULD COST THE GOVERNMENT LESS THAN ONE STEALTH BOMBER.

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No less an authority than Vint Cerf, inventor of the Internet Protocol, has gone on record confirming Gore’s role in U.S. Internet development.

On June 14, 2000, Time Magazine hosted a live Internet forum with Cerf. The (anonymous) moderator joined his journalistic wisecrackers by invoking Gore’s Internet inventor “claim.” Cerf abstained from the frivolity:

Timehost: Welcome to the TIME auditorium. We’re thrilled to have as our guest Vinton Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet. Mr. Cerf has just written an article for TIME magazine, in which he says that the Internet will be everywhere.

Even, literally, in our bodies! So send in your questions about the past, present and future of the Internet. Who better to answer those questions than the man who invented the Internet?

(Sorry, Al Gore)

Timehost: Mr. Cerf is now with us.

Welcome!

Vinton Cerf: Good evening, or whatever time zone you are in, hi!!

While we’re waiting for questions, I’d like to clear up one little item – about the Vice President …

He really does deserve some credit for his early recognition of the importance of the Internet and the technology that makes it work. He was certainly among the first if not the first in Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be and both as Senator and Vice President he has been enormously helpful in supporting legislation and programs to help further develop the Internet - for example the Next Generation Internet program.

I get to see a lot of this stuff because I am a member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee and we regularly review the R&D programs of the US Government and many have relevance to the evolving Internet.

—— On September 28, 2000, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf released a statement to key Internet mailing lists stating their unequivocalbelief that Gore played an important role during his congressional years in supporting the Internet: I am taking the liberty of sending to you both a brief summary of Al Gore’s Internet involvement, prepared by Bob Kahn and me.

As you know, there have been a seemingly unending series of jokes chiding the vice president for his assertion that he “took the initiative in creating the Internet. ” Bob and I believe that the vice president deserves significant credit for his early recognition of the importance of what has become the Internet. I thought you might find this short summary of sufficient interest to share it with Politech and the IP lists, respectively.

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-Now you can see Mr. Al Gore was the first in Congress to realize the implication of the Information Revolution in our lives. I believe his awareness about global warming once again will help all of us foresee and ameliorate the future of our planet.

Al Gore through his actions has already made a bridge between Technology and Environment for adults and childen worldwide… So I congratulate Mr. Gore for The Nobel Peace Prize 2007. In return for the BIOL 141G “Life in the Balance” awareness course… I am ready to give him a hand… Will you “Earth Citizen” give him a hand too? Let us better our planet and secure the future of our children.

The doors of the 21st Century are just opening… “Earth Citizen Friends”

let us follow the path of Mr. Gore and of all men of peace, good will, and vision!

Joel Bomane from Sunny Southern FRANCE

*P.S: I am about to switch from DSL-CABLEto Fiber Optic… It’s FASTER…thanks to AL G.!

* peace: * Gore said in 1988 that his experience in Vietnam: *

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_GoreEarly_life

“It didn’t change my conclusions about the war being a terrible mistake, but it struck me that opponents to the war, including myself, really did not take into account the fact that there were an awful lot of South Vietnamese who desperately wanted to hang on to what they called freedom. Coming face to face with those sentiments expressed by people who did the laundry and ran the restaurants and worked in the fields was something I was naively unprepared for.”

*http://issues2000.org/Celeb/More_Al_Gore_Homeland_Security.htm

*More Al Gore on Homeland Security. Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.

* March 9, 1999 http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/

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