Changing the World by Reprogramming
the Users
David Ian Brager (CU#1146728)
City University of Bellevue, Tri-Cities campus
12 September 2005
David Ian Brager (CU#1146728)
City University of Bellevue, Tri-Cities campus
12 September 2005
Data sources from Geocities and StatCounter.com updated 31 August 2006
Changing the World by Reprogramming
the Users
Theodore Kaczynski, who was titled as "The Unabomber" by the F.B.I., wrote in his manifesto of "Industrial Society and Its Future,"
| "If the machines are permitted
to make all their own decisions, we
can't make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible
to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the
fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might
be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand
over all the power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that
the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor
that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is
that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position
of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical
choice but to accept all of the machines decisions. As society and the
problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become
more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their
decision for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring
better result than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at
which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so
complex that human beings will be incapable of making them
intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control.
People won't be able to just turn the machines off, because they will
be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide
(Kaczynski, 1995)." |
Since 1994, I have maintained the only website that freely disseminates information to anyone who asked about the workings and processes of hypnosis, and have remained the only "volunteer hypnotist" on the World Wide Web throughout this past decade. To substantiate this claim, all one would have to do is to go to Google.com and search for the word "Hypnotist" (figure 1 (Google.com, 2005)):
|
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,270,000
for hypnotist [definition]. (0.40
seconds) |
Figure 1
and then to return to Google.com and search for "Volunteer Hypnotist" (figure 2 (Google.com, 2005)):
| Results 1 - 10 of about 18 for "Volunteer hypnotist". (0.35 seconds) |
Figure 2
In the spring of 2005, on a website located via Scrypnosis.com, which I own, I placed an Adobe PDF file copy of what had been the most current working copy of the book so that people could see the approaching final copy. That book is called, The Future's Toolkit. As of December, 2005, I was made available at a print-on-demand website located at:
http://www.cafepress.com/scrypnosis.52699735
In the original book manuscript's version, I had three sections, each of which had been an individual book that I'd once started and, being that I have attention deficiency disorder and dyslexia, have taken a long to get to their most current unfinished formats, so I simply merged three documents.
I started seriously paying attention to internet market research when I paid TheCounter.com, from 1999 to 2002, to track hits to my site to determine a user's location on the planet based on domain. I rationalized this data will be used in the marketing of the book and of future book lecturing tours, based on the information gathered (figure 3 (TheCounter.com, 2002)).
Top-domains (Countries):
| Commercial (.COM) |
  |
7293 (31%) |
| Networks (.NET) |
|
6981 (29%) |
| Unknown (.???) |
|
3573 (15%) |
| Educational (.EDU) |
|
841 (3%) |
| CANADA (.CA) |
|
767 (3%) |
| AUSTRALIA (.AU) |
|
644 (2%) |
| United Kingdom (.UK) |
|
624 (2%) |
| UNITED STATES (.US) |
|
217 (0%) |
| NEW ZEALAND (.NZ) |
|
177 (0%) |
| GERMANY (.DE) |
|
155 (0%) |
| JAPAN (.JP) |
|
149 (0%) |
| SOUTH AFRICA (.ZA) |
|
142 (0%) |
| Organizations (.ORG) |
|
137 (0%) |
| US Dept of Defense (.MIL) |
|
114 (0%) |
| TURKEY (.TR) |
|
113 (0%) |
| SINGAPORE (.SG) |
|
101 (0%) |
| FRANCE (.FR) |
|
100 (0%) |
| SWITZERLAND (.CH) |
|
84 (0%) |
| MEXICO (.MX) |
|
82 (0%) |
| SWEDEN (.SE) |
|
81 (0%) |
| BELGIUM (.BE) |
|
80 (0%) |
| ISRAEL (.IL) |
|
73 (0%) |
| DENMARK (.DK) |
|
72 (0%) |
| BRAZIL (.BR) |
|
63 (0%) |
| US Government (.GOV) |
|
54 (0%) |
| SPAIN (.ES) |
|
48 (0%) |
| ITALY (.IT) |
|
47 (0%) |
| GREECE (.GR) |
|
42 (0%) |
| MALAYSIA (.MY) |
|
42 (0%) |
| NETHERLANDS (.NL) |
|
41 (0%) |
| PORTUGAL (.PT) |
|
36 (0%) |
| IRELAND (.IE) |
|
34 (0%) |
| PHILIPPINES (.PH) |
|
33 (0%) |
| NORWAY (.NO) |
|
32 (0%) |
| INDONESIA (.ID) |
|
28 (0%) |
| AUSTRIA (.AT) |
|
28 (0%) |
| ROMANIA (.RO) |
|
27 (0%) |
| FINLAND (.FI) |
|
27 (0%) |
| CROATIA (.HR) |
|
27 (0%) |
| INDIA (.IN) |
|
20 (0%) |
| ARGENTINA (.AR) |
|
18 (0%) |
| SAUDI ARABIA (.SA) |
|
18 (0%) |
| RUSSIAN FEDERATION (.RU) |
|
17 (0%) |
| ICELAND (.IS) |
|
17 (0%) |
| HONG KONG (.HK) |
|
15 (0%) |
| CZECH REPUBLIC (.CZ) |
|
12 (0%) |
| COSTA RICA (.CR) |
|
12 (0%) |
| LEBANON (.LB) |
|
11 (0%) |
| TAIWAN (.TW) |
|
10 (0%) |
| POLAND (.PL) |
|
9 (0%) |
| CYPRUS (.CY) |
|
8 (0%) |
| OMAN (.OM) |
|
7 (0%) |
| SLOVENIA (.SI) |
|
7 (0%) |
| ESTONIA (.EE) |
|
5 (0%) |
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (.AE) |
|
5 (0%) |
| CHILE (.CL) |
|
5 (0%) |
| BULGARIA (.BG) |
|
5 (0%) |
| HUNGARY (.HU) |
|
4 (0%) |
| KAZAKHSTAN (.KZ) |
|
4 (0%) |
| PERU (.PE) |
|
3 (0%) |
| LUXEMBOURG (.LU) |
|
3 (0%) |
| Int. Organizations (.INT) |
|
2 (0%) |
| THAILAND (.TH) |
|
2 (0%) |
| PAKISTAN (.PK) |
|
2 (0%) |
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (.DO) |
|
2 (0%) |
| ECUADOR (.EC) |
|
2 (0%) |
| URUGUAY (.UY) |
|
2 (0%) |
| MALTA (.MT) |
|
2 (0%) |
| KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (.KR) |
|
1 (0%) |
| TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (.TT) |
|
1 (0%) |
| GIBRALTAR (.GI) |
|
1 (0%) |
| SRI LANKA (.LK) |
|
1 (0%) |
| EGYPT (.EG) |
|
1 (0%) |
| ARMENIA (.AM) |
|
1 (0%) |
| FIJI (.FJ) |
|
1 (0%) |