My summation talk, after 3 days of presentations on future scenarios for the Bicentennial Era ('76-'89), was in regard to the use of global communication capabilities to upgrade our horse-and-buggy representation systems... utilizing the installed and operational satellite downlinks to CATV public access stations for global and local electronic town hall meetings, and thus celebrating the Bicentennial of Revolution with an electronic upgrade of the Bill of Rights -- our core freedoms of speech, assembly, press, religion, etc.  I had presented this vision at a lecture at Buckminster Fuller's World Game Studies Workshop in Philadelphia that summer, which was why I was asked to give the keynote address by attending members of the World Future Society.

The keynote in my presentation, more true today than then, was presented as an interactive interface whereby a hundred or million people can respond to the same program at the same time without creating noise.  I explained how this would require a 'universal law-language interface' ( Model) for mass-to-mass interaction. This interactive interface frames the language of consciousness at the quintessential foundation of self-governance. 

The two way "information's ecology" process, as I explained, recycles general knowledge in the way that generates specific wisdom by involving and evolving our individual and collective consciousness; a communication process for "electronic town hall meetings", defining, refining and combining (synergizing) our God-given gifts and talents for shining (enlightening) the flame of freedom and opportunity worldwide as did the American Revolution 200 years earlier. 

Having given the final presentation after 3 days of scenario modeling by leading visionaries, community planners, unified field theorists, NASA scientists, etc., I handed out ten pages on details of my talk to each of the representatives of the  U.S. Information Agency, U.S. Communications Agency, American Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission, and the other 10 agencies of the Federal Government in attendance.

It was then that the SYNCON ended, and a junior college vice president from New York City came up to me and said in a rather startling way, "You know, the problem with this is..."  (as his eyes widened and began to speak quickly) "this would eliminate bureaucracy, and you're not going to hear from these agencies of the federal government." 

He was right.  And it wasn't long before I discovered just how deeply the fix was in with big government bureaucracy serving big business interests that were more intent on owning and controlling the future rather than upgrading the "Great Experiment" in representative self government. 

Resurrecting the Founding Fathers' vision of enlightened virtues at the heart of the Constitution is what the Model and current Heartware Project is all about. 

For the full story on Capitol Hill and other 'Futurist Think Tanks', go HERE.

The update (upgraded) potential
 
Now we see, with the global Internet's elimination of time and space, the desk-top video potential of a CATV broadcasting station with one's personal computer or smartphone.  The capabilities for worldwide freedom and opportunity are much more advanced.  The only thing lacking today, as then, is the vision of high touch high tech capabilities as with HEARTware™.  
 
The opportunity for interactive local/global TeLeComm-unity - emphasizing the TLC - has the power to fulfill the dream of U.S. Founders for the Family of Mankind in our new global village.