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Seventh House (Hopes/Desires) The users of information
technology, the public, are the mates, the partners of computer technology,
and the big winners. Useful knowledge of all kinds make even today's technology
pale by comparison, not in terms of quantity, but in quality and in the
ease of locating the appropriate information. More importantly still,
in spite of amazing advances in artificial intelligence, humans are less
naive, less awed by computer capabilities and much more confident in the
power of their own intelligence and creativity.
People tend to inform themselves with the external technologies and make
decisions with their own context-rich inner understanding. Their partnership
with the computer is itself more intelligently managed and well-informed.
This also applies to trade relationships, consumer feedback and ratings,
etc. There are increased opportunities for bargains and fair deals.
Practical, sophisticated services to aid in the formation and support
of viable partnerships of all kinds will abound.
Eighth House (Awareness) More time for philosophical
and spiritual interests is reflected in access to deeper understanding
of the more abstract and hidden laws in nature and life. Insights are
shared, discussed, and deepened. Techniques for evolving greater clarity,
coherence, and integration of perspective bloom into popular awareness.
INTEGRATION OF INNER AND OUTER VALUES (THE THIRD COLUMN)
Ninth House (Dharma) Guidance from mentors of every imaginable
kind become more readily available for those who seek it. People still
need discrimination to select advice wisely, but the tools to aid this
are more effective and widely available. Information technology reduces
the need for subsistence-level labor to a point that material issues no
longer remain the ultimate source of genuine human aspiration and fulfillment.
With increasing sincerity, people seek guidance toward whatever brings
true fulfillment to the human spirit.
Tenth House (Resources) The path to these invaluable
contributions of information technology is not free of substantial obstacles
and delays. Fierce competition among infotech vendors, inability to resolve
smoothly the difficult trade-offs between industry standards and progress,
etc. present serious problems en route to subsequent fulfillment. Anger,
frustration, and feuding in the industry is certainly not invisible now,
but worsens noticeably around December, 1997. In the year running from
mid-2005 to mid-2006 there is a major advance in information technology
that has a deep and global impact.
This, however, shakes out and cleans up problems in the long run. Remarkable
progress in the right direction manifests just a few short years into
the 21st century. Afterwards, progress is steadily and rapidly upward
toward greater industrial coherence. Still, we find some natural turbulence
and technological growing pains of various kinds.
Eleventh House (Hopes/Desires) Gains from world connectivity
and processing power are great and pleasing, even beautiful and luxurious.
But we find these gains also colored with passionate reactions from some
traditional power centers. Already, it is difficult for autocratic powers
to control access to information. It is fast becoming totally impossible.
"Power to the people" will come from information technology
and not Marxism. This will impact not only on governments, but industrial
powers as well.
The world population awakens to realize that energy is intrinsically
already distributed and available without significant cost, just as nature
has known all along. Our infrastructures become fundamentally transformed
over time to reflect this realization. People refuse to pay others to
deliver their energy to them as they would today refuse to pay for air
to breath. This has extremely powerful economic implications because our
current financial institutions depend heavily on income from financing
the centralized distribution of energy. Efficient, localized distribution
of energy already available in the environment plus an extremely "smart"
infotech nervous system for world society has ultimate implications. We
have incredible freedom and ease of living. We have a simplified realization
of individual and collective desires.
Twelfth House (Awareness) A more enlightened global
community spends its attention in more truly gainful pursuits. It finds
time for the pursuit of happiness beyond the realm of material toys. This
is where a more mature, grownup human community will be ultimately headed
over the next 20 years, vastly aided by information technology.
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