Seastones in water: Stanford - "Governance in the Emerging World: National Security" * * * Stanford and Google could bring, for ex. I'd think, an algorithm of quantum computing approach to developing QC more successfully than most other universities around the world * * * Keeping the legacy I.T. systems going, as back ups, until they're no longer helpful, and taking a distributed approach to software, and to the internet itself, makes sense to me (and it's possible that all ~200 countries' national security systems are taking this approach in one way or another as well) - and what are the Chinese, Swedes, etc. doing in these regards ... ?

Stanford - Governance in the Emerging World: National Security


Dear Captain Hedgecock, Secretary of State George Shultz, General Breedlove, Admiral Roughead and panelists and friends,

Thanks for your excellent "Governance in the Emerging World: National Security" panel conversation - https://events.stanford.edu/events/810/81071/ - yesterday. And very nice to talk with you afterward, Katie, Phil and Gary. I'm writing with the idea of creating an emerging single realistic virtual earth world, and with related questions per your talk yesterday...

So at this hinge time in history, I have a Google Inc. as proxy for a tech company, and a conceptual, question:

Many of you have used a kind of 'chess' metaphor in your comments – and with regard to Russia and China in particular, but also in reference to many more countries re national security in an emerging world.

I would like to ask whether the main game instead would best be, conceptually, the Game of Go?

And ask too: hasn’t the 'west' already won this metaphorical game of Go (starting with computer chips in the 1950s and TCP / IP in the ‘70s – where winning here means surrounding all the other guys' / gals' / countries' pieces and taking them (metaphorically, political, economic, technological, information and idea pieces, etc., by exchanging information and creating knowledge works / talent in part) as another country is doing the same with your 'pieces'… and thus making possible further planning for US national security in nation states as these develop?

And then I want to question this "Game of Go" thesis dialectally - that the west has won national security with the internet and in the information technology age - and suggest that good security ahead might involve further creating a single realistic virtual earth for everything (am thinking conceptually Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow + as building blocks, and which, in part, may already be in development for national security questions re Google & Stanford).

So conceptually how to plan with this building out of the internet / these information technologies' ideas for national security by creating a single realistic virtual earth VR (am thinking Google Streetview with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow / Translate +++, and at the cellular and atomic levels too, and with oceans and countries’ territorial boundaries/mapping/modeling – and especially for online great CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric great universities with law and medical schools for peoples in all ~200 countries' languages and with online teaching hospitals for clinical care in all ~200 countries official language including eventual tele-robotic surgery, for ex. – and with individuals as avatar bots, and species' avatar bots, and with evolutionary biology, etc.), including especially the ability to design and produce computer chips, and robotics and all technologies – so for everything - and especially, conceptually, with regard to planning for when such a Google-centric realistic virtual earth as information technology stops, per your comments, Katie … So what would national security / the armed services do if only certain aspects of such information technologies stop - per your question - and which technologies might stop (not have electricity, etc), and how to plan for this?

So, dialectically further, what happens if the west hasn’t won this metaphorical Game of Go (have had also the games of 'Risk" and "Landslide' from the '70s > in mind here - and game metaphors are quite limited in thinking about national security) with regard to national security and emerging countries, - and how to be ready for when technology stops? In the building out of such a single realistic virtual earth (where the Chinese and Russians could build/develop (e.g. chips and everything) in this too - like they use Google in their countries, albeit a bit transformed potentially with different algorithms etc.), there are innumerable opportunities to plan for information technology developments, to plan for innumerable national security contingencies, and all with an information focus, re the west, and re Google Inc. here conceptually, leading the coding; writing code here is what may be most significant in terms of ongoing innovation.

I ask all this as a professor who teaches a course about information technology, the network society and the global university - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - and also as the founder and president of CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, which seeks to create major online universities in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and offer free-to-students' online MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees (again in ~200 countries' main languages), as well as wiki schools in all 7,097 living languages. Such major online WUaS universities - seeking to become the MIT / Stanford / Harvard of the internet in each of these nation states' official languages - could also have a major impact on "Governance in the Emerging World: National Security" in that WUaS faculty could teach about these questions in all these nation states' languages, for example. And World Univ & Sch also seeks to become a major employer worldwide (possibly hiring as many as 2.2 million people with time, so as big as W-M). See, for example, the MIT OCW and other (eg Yale OYC) 'Governance' and 'Political Science' (your area of study for your Ph.D. at Stanford, Katie) courses here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Governance and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Political_Science - which will eventually be for credit toward online degrees in many nation states' languages, to get a sense of how World Univ & Sch works.

I also ask these questions in heralding a single realistic virtual earth for everything including especially as STEM field sites for scientists, and as classrooms, but also for commerce, economics, aeronautics, ecology, environmental protection, robotics, and developing machine learning itself (think TensorFlow), and therefore potentially addressing again "Governance in the Emerging World: National Security" question - by building this. How might we best communicate about this further?

And Katie, would you be so kind as to forward this to Secretary Shultz and the panelists, if you see fit?

Thank you again for your excellence panel, and very nice to meet some of you.

Sincerely, Scott

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- Gen. Philip Breedlove (USAF, Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander Europe

- Col. T.X. Hammes (USMC, Ret.), National Defense University (2009)

- Margaret Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology

- Capt. Katie Hedgecock, US Army and Stanford University

- Adm. Gary Roughead (USN, Ret.), Hoover Institution and former Chief of Naval Operations (Atlantic and Pacifc fleet)

- Ralph Semmel, director of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory






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As I mentioned to Phil after their panel, and re real real time internet, I think it's Stanford and Google that could bring, for example, an algorithm of quantum computing approach to developing QC more successfully than most other universities around the world.



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