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| Personal background |
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Been involved with poota's since I was young. The wonder filled my imagination as far back as 1977 at the tender age of 5 and I'm still facinated.
My 1st experience was toying with a mainframe that my mum used in work. Sometimes she'd let me help her out and my ability to command this monster astonished me and caught my interest.
Whilst teachers at my primary school fumbled with a Commodore Pet, my curiousity had me exploring the wonders of the OS and it's software. Branded as the 'computer geek' (I was one of the roughest and toughest kids in the school) and strangely it sat comfortably on my psychee.
Programming at 9 on a Sinclair ZX81 and building PCs at 10. I worked up an echelon of machines, such as the Dragon, TRS80, Spectrum, VIC 20, C64, Spectrum 128 , BBC B and my favourite, the old Amiga 500.
In my spare time I installed school networks with friends. Setup information page services, pre WWW, based on TELETEXT and gave school it's own news service. Each kid even had thier own homepage! I then got involved with the Internet very early.
Left school - became a shoemaker - owned a bike shop - in 1992 was working for BT in a bomb-proof building 1,500ft underground. The command centre that our team supported controlled most of the UKs telephony.
Word of the WWW spread online. I started compiling command line browsers and webservers from Tim Berners-Lee's source and set up the 1st Internet and Intranet webservers that BT owned.
When cookies and CGI hit, I was caught. The medium became fully interactive and millions of seeds, were planted in my mind and have kept growing.
In 1996 I won employee of the year for my efforts in building a program called A.D.A.M and E.V.E, later renamed to Work Manager™ which saved the company £90m.
Now I run my own small company, I offer Web Hosting and the likes, along with Web Development, Databases, e-Commerce and Content Management Systems. I love it and although I don't earn much, my wealth is in the friends I have made over the years. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It's a very arrogant believe we are the only intelligent life. It's like thinking the planets rotate around the earth and the world is still flat.
In the expanses of our own galaxy we'll find life exists beyond our wildest imaginations, with it also comes intelligent life. Throughout the whole of the universe intelligent life has to be abundant.
Not all intelliegent life will be exploring. Look at our own past: we see dinosaurs roamimg the earth for millions of years, but no evidence that they explored the stars. Only a major catastrophy changed the pecking order. So, although 'life' may exist in abundance, only fractions of this will have the desire to explore.
I think soon we'll discover life. I don't think we'll be contacted, my instincts lead me against this. It'll be a wonderful time to discover a confirmed signal of intelligence and the brothers of SETI will be the people remembered every year on it's anniversary. Those who found an answer to the question: Is there anybody outthere?
Children will talk proudly of how thier ancestors helped the great effort. Each work unit being a medal of honour in the battle.
Perhaps it's dangerous to contact others, I personally disagree. To do anything great requires the co-operation of others. Game theory deomstrates only through cooperating can we succeed, go watch WAR GAMES! For a species to explore the heavens then they must understand this. People are scared of themselves, thinking aliens will come to earth and enslave us, but these thoughts exist in THIER heads. Aliens should be scared of a species that's fixated with slavery! Have faith in the universe's rules. To make contact, a species must grasp the concept of peace and cooperation. We haven't yet, and we also haven't made contact. One day, we'll discover life elsewhere, and it'll make history, but it'll only ever happen if we all work together towards a common goal.
What should the first message be? "Greetings, pleased to meet you, how are you?" |
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