Proposed new profession that will initially police itself and aspire to become a licensed profession in California: The Civcs Generalist
The mandate is of the Civics Generalist is just to give out or sell good advice about how to produced informed, responsible and wise citizens, consumers and users of the Augmented Reality Database (ARDB). The would be licensed and start out with no privileges or responsibilities. They are an amalgam of good ideas that tend to be a partial solutions:
- Scouting (Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts)
- University Eng. and Sci nerds (and Internet and some humanities)
- Press reporters
- Fully versed in the structure of Dept. of Consumer Affairs
- Ecumenical Deists
- Do-it-yourself fix-it persons (mechanical)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wraith
Basic priorities:
- Medical and Dental (without your health, you are so screwed)
- Legal (obey all laws)
- Financial (get a decent job, either in your major or in software)
- Personal fulfillment - state a thesis, dare to implement social change, take risks
They should be akin to the reference desk librarians, except they are for the entire city/world
They want ubiquitous augmented reality now.
Many needs:
- Senior leadership is required
- A stable means of monetizing
- Cannot dig into general counselors too much (or perhaps just expand on them)
- Body of literature must be developed
- First steps towards recognition and licensure must be made
- Prototype certification
Reference librarians who want longer-term job security will switch to become CG. A typical CG might be
- I was raised a Catholic and I was devout until high school
- I have never attended public school
- I am, by default, trusting of others, a few times to my regret
- I was an alter boy and a Boy Scout
- I was a newspaper delivery boy
- I used to be know as Poindexter
- I graduated grade school voted "most likely to succeed"
- My father was a licensed architectural engineer (New York)
- My mother was a registered nurse (New York)
- I married a licensed California pediatrician
- I have a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from R.P.I.
- The most notable person from my class is Marshall Brain
- I have participated in surgeries on canines
- I have been a career software engineer and as-needed IT technician and network engineer and system managers of a wide variety of computer systems, both procedural and non-procedural languages
- I like to know all about (down to the engineering and atomic levels) buildings and bodies and anything else that takes up room in my world. A favorite childhood book was The Way Things Work by David Macaulay.
CG will need to be quite familiar with as many engineering concepts as possible. Good engineering schools like RPI will be a good place to start. They will need some training in business law and business management.
The CG am probably still just a Freudian; it will take me more time to become a Jungian.
I understand some aspects of the lower brain
I want to be able to imagine, in an educated fashion, all the spaces in the world around me. True, I will never really know it all, but with my intellect, I can have a pretty-good idea and, if I am charming enough, I will see much of the spaces that are shared (business/professional spaces). For the rest, I can use my imagination.
Song: Just my imagination (running away with me)
Hippocampus - emotional memory
Amygdala - second track for emotional memory
I imagine myself to use my background in Engineering, with some minor experiences in medicine to combine this into a new sort of entrepreneurial approach to, sigh, save to world. In the style of Marshall Brain.
My mind is still busy making connections and races and segues from idea to idea by association an analogy.