What Do You Want Now
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This page is entirely obsolute, though it may be interesting as an example. It remains on the site for information purposes and as a target for links on other pages which would otherwise be broken.
We are sorry, but THIS FORM HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED and should not be used. But please read it anyway.
This browser-challenged version is currently the only one working, please use it even if your browser is new.
A new free service will help people make good social connections, better
than you can probably imagine. Please follow the links below to see
what this service can do for you, and fill out this form to tell us what
you want the most.
Each line in the form is both a link and
a question. Try following a link or two before thinking of it
as a form.
Read the instructions below the form
first!
(New, December 9, 2000 -- all the links on this page now go somewhere)
Rating Description Rating Scale: 1 (want least) to 10 (want most).
This form is more complicated than it may appear and it would be easy to make a serious mistake. It is easy to get the scale backwards, confusing it with a Letterman Top 10 list. It isn't like that. It would be easy to mix up importance to you (right now) with importance to society (as estimated by you). It's the former, not the latter. There are other possible problems as well, so please read everything that follows before trying to fill out anything on the form.
The only field on this form you must fill in is the e-mail address. Even the user name and password can be left blank, though we don't recommend that. All other fields on this form are optional. Please don't give in to the temptation to lie on this or any other form. That won't help you, us, or anyone. If you don't want to give an honest answer to any of our questions, just leave it blank. You won't get a better job or a prettier girlfriend by fiddling with the numbers; all you will get is an inappropriate job and mismatched girlfriend.
This is a simple scale from 1 to 10, just like in all the silly magazine questionaires. If you want something more sophisticated, a better version of this form may be available. Click here to find out. If it's not available yet, or you actually prefer this version, just follow these instructions:
This form exists in various versions. You are now looking at a version designed for people with browser disabilities -- no frames, no javascript, or no cookies. If you think you have all of those capabilities available and enabled in your browser, follow this link for the [BROKEN] more convenient version [DO NOT USE] that makes full use of them, or at least will make full use of them once I fix all the little bugs they inspir e.
The most serious difference is that without frames, javascript, and cookies, user authentication is more difficult. Until a reliable and efficient CGI-only user authentication system is ready the easiest approach is simply to require e-mail verification. Therefore the filled-in form is not e-mailed to us, but to you , and you must then forward it to us. The completed form will be mailed to the e-mail address given above. After completing and submitting the form, go to that address and forward the form to sotechmail@home.com -- that address will be visible at the top of the message so you don't need to note it now.
Again, please do NOT use your own name or ordinary e-mail address in the form above. The user name given here should be an alias chosen to conceal your identity, and the e-mail address should be one obtained specifically for this purpose from one of the services which provides free webmail . If you haven't obtained a suitable e-mail address, please do so now. Click here for help . (This link seems to die from time to time -- if it is dead when you find it, just go to a webmail service like myownemail (at http://www.myownemail.com/) or webbox (http://www.webbox.com/) , both recommended by reliable reviewers, and follow the instructions on their page for getting a free webmail address. Click here to do try another page that might be ok. But please select an e-mail address your friends and family won't be able to guess -- your complete privacy and anonymity are important. -- dpw)
Please understand:
We don't want to know who you are.
We need to be able to tell if the same person who filled out this form filled
out previous or subsequent ones, but we don't need to know your actual name.
So please use an alias, preferably one that people won't easily guess. Please
do not supply information which would serve to identify you. As long as you
never supply such information, then you can feel free to be honest and
forthcoming with other information you might be tempted to fudge a bit if
your identity was known.
The quality of this service depends on the number of people involved. Inviting other people to participate will improve this service and help us all. Therefore, all of the webpages on the SocialTechnology.ca website that are part of this project contain a section like this which asks the user to recommend the site to other users. See these Links for more information.
You may wish to recommend this page to other web users. The best way to do that is always to include the URL yourself in a personal message, but we can provide a more convenient method. If you provide a list of e-mail addresses in the space below, each of them will receive an e-mail message telling them of this website and this webpage. Please only supply addresses for people you know personally.
If this page includes a form other than the one immediately above here or the similar one just below, you may wish to send an e-mail-only version of that form to other people of your acquaintance who use e-mail but do not have access to the web. Eventually we want everybody to fill out these forms, even people who don't normally have e-mail access.
This site is under construction, so some of the links here may not yet go to real pages. They are not dead links, exactly, more like links trying to be born.
Copyright © 2000 Douglas P. Wilson
New: Social Technology through Diagrams
New: Social Techs novel online
The main Social Technology page.
Find Compatibles, the key page, with the real solution to all other problems explained
Technological Fantasies , a page about future technology
Social Tech a page about Social Technology, technology for social purposes. I think I was the first person to use this phrase on the Internet, quite a long time ago.
Roughly corresponding to these web pages are the following blogs:
Social Technology the main blog, hosted on this site, with posts imported from the following blogger.com blogs, which still exist and are useable.
Find Compatibles devoted to matching people with friends, lovers, jobs, places to live and so on, but doing so in ways that will actually work, using good math, good algorithms, good analysis.
Technological Fantasies devoted to future stuff, new ideas, things that might be invented or might happen, such as what is listed above and below.
Sex-Politics-Religion is a blog about these important topics, which I have been told should never be mentioned in polite conversation. Alright that advice does seem a bit dated, but many people are still told not to bring up these subjects around the dinner table.
I believe I was the first person on the Internet to use the phrase Social Technology -- years before the Web existed.
Those were the good old days, when the number of people using the net exceeed the amount of content on it, so that it was easy to start a discussion about such an upopular topic. Now things are different. There are so many web pages that the chances of anyone finding this page are low, even with good search engines like Google. Oh, well.
By Social Technology I mean the technology for organizing and maintaining human society. The example I had most firmly in mind is the subject of Find Compatibles, what I consider to be the key page, the one with the real solution to all other problems explained.
As I explained on my early mailing lists and later webpages, I find that social technology has hardly improved at all over the years. We still use representative democracy, exactly the same as it was used in the 18th century. By contrast, horse and buggy transporation has been replaced by automobiles and airplanes, enormous changes.
In the picture below you will see some 18th century technology, such as the ox-plow in the middle of the picture. How things have changed since then in agricultural technology. But we still use chance encounters, engagements and marriages to organize our home life and the raising of children.
I claim that great advances in social technology are not only possible but inevitable. I have written three novels about this, one preposterously long, 5000 pages, another merely very very long, 1500 pages. The third is short enough at 340 pages to be published some day. Maybe. The topic is still not interesting to most people. I will excerpt small parts of these novels on the web sometime, maybe even post the raw text for the larger two.
This site includes many pages dating from 1997 to 2008 which are quite out of date. They are included here partly to show the development of these ideas and partly to cover things the newer pages do not. There will be broken links where these pages referenced external sites. I've tried to fix up or maiintain all internal links, but some will probably have been missed. One may wish to look at an earlier version of this page, rather longer, and at an overview of most parts of what can be called a bigger project.
Type in this address to e-mail me. The image is interesting. See Status of Social Technology
Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, Douglas Pardoe Wilson
I have used a series of e-mail address over the years, each of which eventually became out of date because of a change of Internet services or became almost useless because of spam. Eventually I stuck with a Yahoo address, but my inbox still fills up with spam and their spam filter still removes messages I wanted to see. So I have switched to a new e-mail service. Web spiders should not be able to find it, since it is hidden in a jpeg picture. I have also made it difficult to reach me. The picture is not a clickable link. To send me e-mail you must want to do so badly enough to type this address in. That is a nuisance, for which I do apologize, but I just don't want a lot of mail from people who do not care about what I have to say.