Finding and Living your Dreams Through Technology

Beyond the wires and silicone of technology is the fundamental nature of human- the will to achieve. Unfortunately, way to often, achievement lies in ruins at the alter of access. Access to information, tools, people that can lift one out of the environment that holds them back, gain access to mentors, and put in one’s hands tools greater and more magnificent then those that built the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids of Giza, in short put the dream back in the dreamer.

History Repeats

Since the dawn of human civilization only the few had the power and the position to dictate the outcome of the many. The Lords and Ladies decreed that the serfs and fifes had their station. God-forbid the peasants and forget about them. Time progress and nobility gave way a new monarchy based upon deep pockets and selective arrangement; large corporations now dictated value and station. Only the select few may gain access to the great vault of wealth and prosperity. From front-line assembly to desktop secretary the pecking order dictated who you were and what you did. Much too the dismay of those stuck in daydreams of better lives.

Lives where living was by choice and not station, lives where equal truly means equal in all respects, not just politically correct notions of sex, religion, race but in the greater sense as living to your fullest with no barriers between what you want to achieve and what you aspire to be in your own grey matter. A life full of potential, possibilities, adventure, and dreams that come true in spite of education, income, and environment this is where everyone aches to be but always seems to fall short and end up only living someone else’s dreams be it behind a desk or on the shop floor.

The power of the dream extends far beyond the person, many times over, and begs for its place waiting for the right mechanism, the right process and possibility to live again. To grow beyond the paycheck-to-paycheck, worries about devastating financial ruin, and ultimately living to the end with regret, bitterness, and fear of tomorrow. To the heartfelt dreamer, you dream of a better life and wake up to the same old routine in spite of hope, faith, and hard work.

Enter the age of knowledge

Long ago is some back room at some university a small box churned out 1’s and 0’s from there that box was connected to another then another until today we have the modern Oracle of Delphi- the Internet. Total access, total control to not just a small group but to the world, we had come full circle creating the final word in human development a tool possessed of all our traits but none of the baggage and controlled by no one group or person. We can dream again and overcome the blockades created by the select few. 

Why do record company’s cringe at the Internet? Why do book publisher’s whine about web publishing not being real publishing? They are running scare; it’s not about losing money- which they are but not for the reasons they cite, it’s not about stealing from their artists, it’s about control over the environment and their right to decide what should and should not be produced. It’s about the aristocracy of the corporation suddenly realizing that they are not the sum total of the universe, that they can no longer just wave their arms and have the masses fall to their knees for breadcrumbs. They can no longer decide what should or should not be released to the masses. The universe of access now belongs to all of us.

You no longer need to be a multi-billion dollar corporation to release a product, produce a record, or release a book. All you need is a computer connected to the Internet and it doesn’t even have to be in your home. Though they still may control many avenues and access points, as they are finding out, YouTube, MySpace, and their kind are gaining steam and encroaching upon their sacred grounds. In time they will whither within they own protected sphere and disappear into the vapor.

Access Granted

The dreamer has access. The dreamer has the tools. The dreamer need only learn how to create and the corporation will fall and every one, with access, will be equal in capacity and capability.

Long gone are the days when Stephen King types would receive 100 rejections before someone would put his words in print. Where some small group in some ivory tower decided this is the music or fashion or product that should be allow; human ingenuity has jilted its connection to those select few and opted to be whole again. Searching for answer, making the answer available, and right, wrong, or indignant changing the world of commerce to the ultimate in niche marketing- how specific can you be and how to give it to even the smallest group of one. We are no longer markets, we are individuals.

In the corporate world, they rile against the machine and vivify those that use them and sue, poke, and prod to get their way and in the end they create a bigger following through a global backlash because the cure to their limitation is of greater importance. If only they had gone with the flow of technology and not against they would have found a greater understand of the new order and their place in it. They would have learned to accept technology and used it to work for them. Learn to talk anew to the people and give them what they want the way we want through the same technologies available to everyone- instead they spite the very customers they need for their margins.

Tools Released

All the tools of knowledge laid out naked before the world. Marketing, production, accounting information just a click away the modern oracle of Delphi replete with the ability to anticipate the outcome of requests; information belongs to every one.

What of the tools. Software in all its glory, all its capabilities, and all it’s cost. Three, 4, 5 figures pricing giving way to free and open source the programmers figured it out the value is not in the tool but the ability to help others use the tool. Give them the tool and they will come back for help to use it. Value begets return. I new shift in business thinking! Why then have the corporations not caught on? Open source products, open source marketing, open source thinking, freedom to think and act as we see fit. Profit as a product of support not an expense. Open source should mean open for business.

Software is a tool, like the hammer or saw. It creates only by the hands of the one wielding it. It produces only as a ghost to the keys and clicks that manage it. The person is empowered. Not just empowered, endeared, and technology is a catalyst for change, for hope, for freedom and rights.

Corporations and governments alike fear the people. Real people with real access and real thoughts who will not be shut down or shunned, who will not be herded like sheep to the shears who will not accept their truth developed through sound bites and PR firms. We know the truth and you’re only fooling the ones still absence from the machine. This will change; access is inevitable.

We the people, has a new custodian-us, the people it was designed for in the first place. Our dream, our rights, our liberties dictated by no one but ourselves; our choices, our way; it is that time. The people’s voice will endure despite your efforts.

Dream to Live

So dream, then dream bigger. It is all yours. You want to be a rock star, grab your computer make a CD, make a video, put it on Amazon and YouTube, build your web site and offer it for sale. Build your following one fan or customer at a time. You are the label and you don’t need the record company. It may happen faster by avoiding them because you control the outcome. Your hard work fills your pockets and your soul.

You don’t know how, you will learn just Google it or Ask it. Believe me, you’re not the first to consider your problem and someone, somewhere has put it on the web.

You can’t fathom how big the Internet really is. 

For the writer, inventor, or any dreamer looking for their own star, it is all there for the taking. Learn the tools, learn the process (it is on the web), then make it real. You may have the cure for what ails this planet; you may have the thought that changes human destiny. In their hands, we may never know and we will hobble along for another 1000 years but in your hands you could change the world.

For the culprits trying to cease and desist this revolution a requiem, “Here lies the dream killers, they learned to late.”

Use your technology as the ultimate dreamcatcher.