Therefore it contains houses, a cathedral, a game park, a museum, a postoffice, a town hall, a newspaper, an encyclopedic library, a school and a university.
The university is called Earth-Moon University since the inhabitants of moontown, planned for the next decade in both Japan and the U.S., will of course be included. All degrees can be earned in the form of EM points that are recognized worldwide. Original work done gives an identity (and a point). Work is needed in the frontiers of science and in the frontiers of the pyramid of mind. The pyramid is the solution to the access problem. Any level of previous informedness or lack of it is optimally catered to. Here the largest amount of work will enter Lampsacus.
All medical information, all trouble-shooting will be provided as well as all opportunities to set up services to cater to "material needs." Although no advertisements are permitted, sponsor-related information and achievement-related information is, of course, available and visible (as in PBS productions, for example).
Children have the same rights as adults. Their questions are especially worthwhile. The pyramid caters to them, too. All knowledge is made available on all levels of condensation and generality ("abstracts principle"). The "pyramid of questions" is the perhaps most important one. Children are not at a disadvantage here.
Human rights are a general possession of all users. Enlightenment rekindled is the aim of Lampsacus. It has the Sunday atmosphere of an ancient Greek town (Lampsacus in Asia Minor, where Anaxagoras lived) combined with that of Disneyland - since children have equal rights.
Every inhabitant should possess the Blue Card. It acts like the flashing lights on an ambulance. It means when raised: I need help, my human rights are being violated. It stops all ongoing activities against the individual concerned, everyone is obliged to help.
Each inhabitant has a room in a house (for example, Greek houses by Leon Krier are waiting to be donated by Hans-Jurgen Muller) and a mailbox. S/he can contact any other inhabitant with a 2-word message on the envelope (room mates with 3 words). The bulletin boards, too, have the structure of a pyramid, including sub-bulletin bords (like the emergency bulletin board).
Since this is "information town," everything is optimally accessible. The transparency - in afternoon sunlight - is the most important feature. There is only benevolence. The smile of benevolence at the same time could be a favorite topic of research at EMU.
What is needed first is work on how to optimally structure Lampsacus. Ease of access, for children and greatgrandparents alike, is decisive. The best layouts will be bought by Lampsacus.
Lampsacus, of course, should have money. Admission to sponsorship is arduous. Since this town is the real town, where the action is, governments which wish to co-sign as sponsors are hard to fend off. The best programs and computers are encouraged to be developed for Lamsacus and then bought and distributed freely to applying villages. Since instant fame is implicit with any major contribution, most of the work - like the C++ compiler and other donations on the current Internet - will still be contributed freely.
So far, of course, Lampsacus does not exist and has no money. This early stage nevertheless is the most important one.
I forgot to say that the rules of Lampsacus are inviolable: Sunday, light, children, mutual assistance, friendship. The library and the university are the greatest job providers (including the medical department). So are the improvement lab and the shortcut lab. And the computer museum (where all previous computers and software are emulated and running). And the hard-copy lab. And of course the real town.
Every town can volunteer to build the greatest attraction on earth - hometown Lampsacus - in real stones. Real Virtuality. I ask your forgiving that Walt Disney is in the logo from the beginning, not because of sponsorship but intrinsically. The same honor goes to Harriet Tubman, Henri Dunant, Charlie Chaplin, Ghandi and Levinas. And to all holy people of all ages (including Descartes).
This is the most crazy homepage ever written. I thank Klaus-Peter Zauner for having given me the floor, and Tim Bernes Lee for having provided the paper on which to write, and the National Science Foundation for its farsighted sponsorship policy.
Otto E. Rossler
Anaxagoras
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The philosopher Anaxagoras, b. Clazomenae, in Anatolia (present-day Turkey), c.500 BC, d. Lampsacus, 428, went to Athens to teach at the invitation of PERICLES, taking with him new ideas of science and philosophy from Anatolia. Anaxagoras seems to have anticipated the principles of contemporary PROCESS PHILOSOPHY. He described the cosmos as a continuous field in which different qualities flow and mix together. He maintained, however, that the motion of the world originated with Mind (Nous), which ordered the natural world but did not mix with it.
Anaxagoras thought that other worlds exist besides our own and that "they have men on them, and these have houses and canals just as we do.