Star Trek & Its Contribution to Everything
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I’m just curious. Will you go see the new Star Wars? Your technology with Socrates does seem light years ahead of everything.
I love Socrates. It is truly amazing.
DK
ANSWER: Absolutely. If you pay attention, you will see that much of the film is based on the Roman Empire and the battle that ended the Republic, which was followed by the Imperial Era. Star Wars is just entertainment, not science in reality. But anyone who raised kids had to see just about every single one. Even Star Wars has inspired many different things to the point people do create their own light sabers just for starters.
Perhaps I never admitted this in public, but people do not appreciate how much primarily Star Trek contributed to society. Star Trek first aired on TV in 1968. The Apollo 11 landing on the moon was July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong made “one giant leap for mankind.” There are even objects you can buy like the ICEORB Floating Bluetooth Speaker which is clearly inspired by Star Wars as well and sold out at Amazon for Christmas. Of course you can even use cyclical wave of sound to levitate things. This is something most people are totally unaware of but is real and mind-blowing for most people who do not understand that cycles are how energy moves, which includes markets. So many things you see in these movies you may think is just hype, may actually surprise you.
NASA’s funding increased because of Star Trek. This is why they named the first Space Shuttle theEnterprise. NASA even invited William Shatner to walk into the lunar module before it took off. Shatner publicly stated that he was surprised by the number of engineers who came up to him and thanked him because Star Trek had inspired them as children to go into the field.
Star Trek was on the air when I began engineering school. Back then, you had to know a computer from the ground up. To graduate, you needed BOTH hardware and software, which are two entirely separate fields today. That meant I had to go into engineering and learn everything from physics all the way to how to design a computer from scratch. Star Trek filled the minds of everyone back then for it opened our eyes to the possibilities one might accomplish with computers, right down to talking with them.
I was working on voice technology way back then. The above picture shows the first machine I worked on. I tried to teach the computer to make the same sounds as the human voice to form words. That proved to be way too complex. Instead, we began by recording words spoken by a human and the computer would go to each word to speak from a tape drive. It sounded very robotic: HELLO – HOW – ARE – YOU.
When I left computing and moved into market making, I realized that what I had learned in computers could be applied to markets. I began writing programs with the same idea behind Star Trek that the future could be created. Dragon Systems, which is well known now, was just starting out back then. It was hardware back then and not software as it is today. I worked with Dragon Systems back then to give voice to Socrates.
We were the first to use computers to monitor economic systems and market movements. It is true that everyone began following us by hiring what became known as “quants” or people from physics without trading experience. Their failure to understand both sides of the equation led to some crazy problems in the next decade of the Nineties. You could not create computer systems without knowledge of both sides of the problem: computer design and trading. This is why I tell parents who write to ask what they should encourage their children to do to start with computer programming, for that will be like knowing how to read and write. With that skill, you can apply it to any field you may be attracted to.
Star Trek inspired so many people, including myself when I was young. It showed me what was possible. Even the first cell phone was of the familiar design of a flip-phone used on Star Trek. This was the Motorola MicroTAC 9800X issued in 1989.
So many things that appeared in Star Trek have made it to reality. When you go to a doctor, they use hand-held devices to take your temperature without sticking anything in your mouth. Star Trek’s medical assessments through a handheld device called a tricorder were also adopted, as were 3D printers that create objects, synthesizers of food, and lasers that are used as weapons. The Star Trek phaser is already here — creating one that can be set to “stun” or “destroy” is not quite there yet. They can even restore some of your sight with laser surgery.
Warp speed is another story. Einstein established that nothing in our universe could move faster than the speed of light, as long as it stays in the dimensions that we’re aware of in our reality. Warp speed, however, is something that you would use, let’s say, to surround a bubble around a spacecraft to keep it in the sub-warp space that we know as our reality. You move this bubble through space-time by warping space-time and thereby allowing yourself to move faster than the speed of light.
According to Einstein’s general relativity, gravity manifests as a curvature of space-time. However, according to Einstein’s special relativity and his famous equation E=mc ², energy and mass are equivalent. Consequently, any type of energy contributes to gravity or the curvature of space-time. Minkowski’s space-time is the space-time of special relativity that has no curvature (i.e. no gravity). This is the shape of space-time when you are in an inertial, non-accelerating, reference state. If you then accelerate within Minkowski space; you no longer see space-time as flat to accelerated observers. Consequently, we cannot tell if we are in a gravitational field or accelerating locally. Yet, when we are in fact accelerating in a flat space-time, everything appears as though we are in a space-time that is curved due to gravity.
The subject is complicated and we don’t fully understand how to do this now. So all we can do is see that there are possibilities. Perhaps one day, if we stop trying to conquer each other, we will learn the physics that will teach us how to warp space-time and move through space-time faster than the speed of light, and indeed, go boldly where no man has gone before.
As for holodecks for entertainment, well there too we are on the road. Google 3D glasses and 3D virtual reality games are the first steps toward the idea of the Star Trek holodecks.
Star Trek was not unlike Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a classic science fiction novel written by French writer Jules Verne and published in 1870. People thought that was just science fiction. Submarines became a reality. GOOD Science fiction, which is based upon real theories rather than green lizards invading from Mars, have been inspiring innovation and progress for centuries. It has made complicated or boring theories come to life. In so doing, they contribute to the advancement in society.
So yes, Star Trek inspired me to open my eyes to what could be accomplished with computers. I merely applied it in a field that I was good at — trading.
I was also inspired by Milton Friedman. He made me see that what I was doing was important outside of trading. John Exter (1910-2006) also came to my office to tell me what I was doing was important. I still have the tapes of our conversation, which I may publish next year. John was an American economist, member of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, and founder of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He came to me to show me his theories of money known as Exter’s pyramid. John also saw that what I was doing as important beyond just trading.
I owe my success to many others who have inspired me to look beyond trading to use what I saw in the world. They, along with my diverse clients, have helped me to become, perhaps, the only real international adviser to reach every continent and see everything through everyone’s perspective. So yes, Star Trek show me, as many others in different fields, that the future was there waiting for our discovery. Albert Einstein (1879–1955) taught in Princeton. We never met. But I knew many who knew him well. One friend of mine was a professor at Princeton when Einstein taught. He told me all the time that “imagination” was more important than knowledge. This was Einstein’s first maxim. Never be afraid to imagine for there lies the undiscovered future. So yes, to go boldly where no man has gone before is the path to discovery.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) taught in Princeton. We never met. But I knew many who knew him well. One friend of mine was a professor at Princeton when Einstein taught. He told me all the time that “imagination” was more important than knowledge. This was Einstein’s first maxim. Never be afraid to imagine for there lies the undiscovered future. So yes, to go boldly where no man has gone before is the path to discovery.
2017 the Year from Political Hell
QUESTION: Greetings Elections were always the same dates, why is it that we’ve only started discussing them in the last week?
Regards,
JCL
ANSWER: It is not just the USA this time, it is France & Germany plus the referendum vote on Britain leaving the EU. All of this will be a lot of uncertainly in Europe which will drive more capital into dollar on sheer anticipation.
It is not dramatic with USA alone. It is the correlation of all political trends hitting in 2017, In the USA, this is also when everything goes negative and that is the government’s own budget. So this time the public will start to hear more about the budget crisis we face.
This is also why the G20 will start to track all money movement. I reported how as an employer, I cannot even give an employee a gift of more than $25. You cannot buy diner for that or a bottle of champagne. These people have mismanaged government and we are always the problem – never them.
They will FIRST raise taxes and tax enforcement before they will ever reform. What they are doing to Greeks starting today having to report anything of value held outside of banks is the BALLOON. They get away with this and you are next for it will be extended in 2017 everywhere. Then there is the mad rush to move to electronic money to prevent people from hoarding cash outside of banks. This is why we have presented the SOLUTION that necessitates the end of public debt and the end of taxes for both are obsolete when there is no intention of ever repaying the debt.
One small business owner wrote to tell us that when they deposit any cash, they now must supply the bank with photo ID to deposit cash even as a small business owner dealing with the public IN THE UNITED STATES.
The sum of all our worst fears is coming. You will know it by its number – 2017.
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2016 – the BIG SHIFT
As we close 2015 and begin a new year, the markets generally closed flat to neutral with a warning that as we approach the political year from hell being 2017, this is by no means going to be a walk through the park. We are more likely than not going to see some trends conclude in 2016 and others perform a false movethe scare the hell out of everyone. Nevertheless, the stars may not be aligning, but the markets appear to be setting the stage to align for the BIG SHIFT.
What does the BIG SHIFT mean? It means that as we face a meltdown in Socialism which has taken hold of Western Governments destroying our underlying democratic foundations, ALL assets must prepare for the HEDGE against government.
Relationships are NEVER constant, yet the TV analysis touts fixed concepts that people then believe. At first, many will buy or sell based upon such unfounded beliefs and assumptions. When we examine them in detail, they fall to the ground into dust.
Europe is operating under a dictatorship and has lost any possible right to exercise a democratic process to remove the three members of the Troika since not a single one stands for any election. Lagarde is of the IMF and is not even appointed the head of the IMF exclusively by Europeans. She was a personal friend of Obama. Draghi is ex-Goldman Sachs. Once a member of Goldman, you never leave. The EU Parliament has no validity since the Commission is not bound by their vote. The people of European nations have absolutely no means to reclaim their sovereignty by any method other than force. And to prevent that, the EU Commission wants to create its own army.
As we hurl through time and space toward 2017, we will come to realize that this is indeed the year from Political Hell. Not only will a new president take office in the USA, but we are looking at France, Germany, and Britain also going nuts.
The $40 level becomes important resistance now in oil. The Dow closing lower than 2014 is warning that there is a risk of a retest of the lows as was the case with the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ which made a new high at last but with little follow-through. This warns we may yet see a retest of support and the Sling-Shot Moveremains possible. Silver closed bearish and gold only neutral.
It appears everything lining up for a very dramatic move between 2017 and 2020. So grab your socks, this one could be very crazy and wild to say the least.
False Moves & the Force Behind Them
QUESTION : Mr. Armstrong,
I’ve heard you refer to “the false move”, and have witnessed it myself. I know there is no conspiracy to ruin my day nor deter me from trading. I was just curious, what causes this?
I’ve heard you refer to “the false move”, and have witnessed it myself. I know there is no conspiracy to ruin my day nor deter me from trading. I was just curious, what causes this?
Thank you,
H
H
PS-Merry Christmas!
ANSWER: The real energy within a market is always to trap the majority for then they lose money and it forces them to cover their position. If 90% of the people are long, then any news can set off the collapse. If you scare the majority, there will be no bid when you try to sell, which results in a flash crash.
Likewise, the lows are made by excessive short positions. Again, something takes place and then the news sparks a short-cover panic. Likewise, because the majority are actually short, they are forced to cover and reverse the position which creates an abrupt swing to the upside.
Therefore, markets always make the false move for that is the sling-shot that propels the market in the opposite direction. This is simply the REQUIREDmovement of markets to further an important directional change.
We may see that FALSE MOVE yet with a sling-shot on a very major scale. This is the BIG SHIFT that will set the stage for markets to align in order to prepare for what is looking to be the collapse of Western Governments & their Monetary System that is now way out of control. The closings today are an omen of what is to come.
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