Gilded Age to Google Age: Telegraph to “Gmail Tap”?  

TODAY, in this ‘golden age’ of Western accomplishments, (Man on the Moon, Satellites, Internet, Smartphone) why is there still NO solution to the technical problem of an EFFECTIVE ‘quake alert’ OR an aerial mine field detector equipped with a precision detonator liken to my Unmanned Aerial Striker (UAS)?

From the Gilded Age to Google Age, we find lightning rarely strikes twice. Samuel F. B. Morse played a key role in the invention of the telegraph and “Morse code” in the early 1800s.  

Yet, Morse’s famed legacy led to April Fool Day 2012 Google “Gmail Tap”? Oh sure, hear you got an app. But is it truly advanced and effective in delivering an early ‘quake alert’? Guess until “old faithful” blows we just won’t know 🙂 Right, app users not in Wyoming.  

Reed Morse “explains that the creator of Morse code, Samuel F.B. Morse, was his great-grandfather’s grandfather’s brother.” Hmm, wonder what Samuel would say about Reed’s ‘accomplishments’?

GenAI was expected after the NET but did you see it coming? Looks like Sammy, Bill, Elon, Peter and Bozo did. Google, here’s some fresh Human Intelligence. Amazon set to sell its division of Whole Foods. But will its health segment follow suit? As to AI, looks like you decided ‘if you can’t join them beat them.’ ’ Or shall we call it by what it is, A.I. & “Information Society”: Child’s Play or “Artificiall Man”?

Reed, like the ‘wave of AI,’ will you continue “riding on the coat tails” of a great Morse?  In Kenneth Silverman’s 2003 book, Lightning Man. The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, we find the concluding chapter very telling, “Coda: 1872 – 2000.”

In it Silverman notes, “In the new millennium, the code continues in use among radio amateurs. And it is being revived as a means of communication…”

Yet, for all the talk of code and A.I. ‘potential’, you all got nothing.

Knock, Knock

“A technical problem demands a technical solution.” – Jacques Ellul

The Alphabet: Knock, Knock

Lety: Who’s there?

The Alphabet

Lety: Hello Alphabet! Got a technical solution for a technical problem?

U.S. government and Defense has long partnered with BIGTech. Yet, it can’t get Tech companies to work with CalTech to create an EFFECTIVE advanced warning system for earthquakes?

The BBC reported that “Google alert failed to warn of Turkey earthquake.” Moreover, there was no “published evidence” of such a warning device?

Wait a sec. Did you read the terms and conditions of this disputed app? Contact California’s governor office who reportedly partnered with the tech company? Or, did you check if Türkiye’s communication system was operable or running online interference?

Leader of the Republic of Türkiye, power rests with your pen. It’s a shame Sweden’s tech sector doesn’t offer an advanced quake warning design. Perhaps after you sign your approval for NATO membership? If you’re a betting man, I’d put my money on Israel for this design. You’d be surprised what a supercomputer can do!

Geek alert! I’ve designed an advanced system set to report in real time early seismic activity within a 17 hour window followed by a 95.0 second warning to users in epicenter and vicinity. No ‘computerized programs’ or ‘estimates.’

Reed Morse, take note: In Samuel Morse’s time, the Telegraph led to the creation of Western Union, in large part thanks to Samuel. Is a ‘google tap’ all you got?

Reed, it’s how you think. Perhaps you need a summer break. It can do wonders! Confused? You’re not looking at it correctly. Need help from the ‘google team?” Anyway, I’ll share with you how it was done back in Sam’s day.

Samuel Morse’s Telegraph System put forth the “laying and operation of a submarine telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, electrically connecting the Old World with the New and opening the present era of global communication.”

Google boys, don’t forget his partner whom I drew inspiration from. Sir Michael Faraday “generated electricity by rotating a copper disk in the field of some horseshoe magnets, a demonstration of electromagnetic induction…”

How can Morse’s current be sent across the ocean? The “chief problem, Faraday believed-correctly-would be the weight and strength of the cable, and the difficulty of laying it.”

Now let me share another prototype I have in the works. A multi-enhanced aerial mine field detector equipped with precision mini missiles to detonate them from a safe distance. Think of ‘Iron Dome’ but mobile, an Unmanned Aerial Striker (UAS). Hmm, satellite and laser?  

Supplier of key magnetic elements is critical. Of course, if the objective is to infiltrate or disrupt operations, talk to China. Hear their metals are in high demand by second and third rate U.S. contractors.

Google to ‘Golden Age’

Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner wrote of “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” in 1873. Aftermath of the Civil War and dawn of the industrial age gave rise to the “Captains of Industry.”

But now their rotten fruit has coupled with the technological society. And once again, “at the expense of the underside,” a term noted by Professor David Dalton.

Twist of fate. Where once immigrants came to America, TODAY, America goes to them – South America, Africa, China, India…“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” for its dependence of the elements critical for batteries to ‘energize’ their tech gadgets.

Americans, walked what remains of Pompeii? Suggest you visit it late afternoon during winter rainy season. As to your Northwestern States, it’s a safe bet “Old Faithful” will fully awake. Until then, I remind you of the great one that hit a century ago in old Frisco! Of course now that the city has gone to shit, loss will be minimal.

Rely on A.I. predictive analytics or ChatGPT for an escape plan? Let me remind you, a machine and system are only as good as its infrastructure and real time communication command center. Question is whose running it?

Solution? Hmm, how fast can you run?   

“In fact, there is one and only one means to their solution, a world-wide totalitarian dictatorship which will allow technique its full scope and at the same time resolve the concomitant difficulties. It is not difficult to understand why the scientists and worshippers of technology prefer not to dwell on this solution, but rather to leap nimbly across the dull and uninteresting intermediary period and land squarely in the golden age.” Jacques Ellul, “The Technological Society,” 1964.