About Omniprise.net
Web-based Knowledge Applications in General Systems Design and Development
"Build it and they will come."
Omniprise.net was original name for my general systems based framework and it became the first domain established within the Lewis Works framework, even before it was called Lewis Works. The domain name has been retained and subsequently recovered, and has come to stand for a corporate extension of Lewis Works as a second, independent, functionally organized systems-based framework. The main interest of Omniprise.net is the extension of web-based project programs in larger real world contexts, and the integrated, coordinated development of these programs as an extended and extendable series. These programs center around web-system development, and it is believed that the future of all computing will be in terms of the Internet and the Worldwide Web, and it will be done in connection to this scale-free informational metasystem.
The central idea and ideal of the web is any and all kinds of information, of any degree of detail, available at any point in time and place, on demand, and free to all users. The long term social and psychological consequences of the realization of this idea, the basis of the information revolution, are nothing less than ground breaking and breath taking.
What has emerged in the course of the development of the Lewis Works Framework is a central project-based working system that is both comprehensive and flexible in its broad-range applicability. This in turn has led to development of an integrated corporate web-based framework like Omniprise.net, functionally rather than formally organized for the purposes of working and heuristic efficiency.
Omniprise.net is intended to provide a meta-systematic context for the development of a wide variety of project programs in web-based settings. These projects find their central point of consolidation in the Lewis Works websystem, which is found on the link palette below. Omniprise.net is thus conceived in an open-ended way--we cannot clearly specify its primary methodologies, its intermediate objectives or its final structure, but it is developmentally open to being adapted to different contexts that may emerge in real world human settings.
What has emerged as well from the development of the Lewis Works framework has been a dramatic sense of the central importance of human factors and factors of human culture and psychology in the organization of our world and our conceptual understanding of a shared reality--or what can be referred to as a pan-human collective worldview. What can be called the human element is both the main obstacle to the teleological realization of the development of alternative applied systems, and, simultaneously, the main mechanism and springboard for the achievement of this form of development. The inertia of human prejudice and bias in systems interferes non-productively, and often destructively, in the organization of efforts towards achievement of an alternative systems based framework. This pattern of interference is in fact in most contexts in the contemporary world debilitative of almost every developmental effort, everywhere development is articulated. At the same time, there resides in human willpower, freedom, initiative, creativity and capacity for transcendence of our own natures, the promise and potential upon which alternative development can only be realized.
Thus, the problem of human development becomes a problem central to the entire articulation of alternative development frameworks, at every level in which this articulation occurs or may occur in the world. It is the most important and critical problem, the dilemma of which is that we find it very difficult to apply quantitative factors of analysis in any reliable or consistent or meaningful, non-trivial manner, and we must deal with qualitative issues by which we often cannot hang a price tag or set quantities of resources in a deterministic manner.
One must recognize the fundamentally self-serving nature of all human prejudice, that in turn serves as a basis for the rationalization of behavior and social action that results in the forms of bias, discrimination and corruption that systematically undercut and undermines almost all human development efforts. In a sense, it becomes imperative that we can "human-proof" systems while at the same time constructing systems that play upon and promote positive human collective representations and that interpret for people in a persuasive and influential manner a benign and value-neutral systems-based worldview. But, human nature tends to be perverse in regard to the symbolic embodiment and expression of power, particularly in social contexts and relations, and this preoccupation with the symbolic transformation of power drives people to both constructive and destructive purposes.
Omniprise.net becomes either a part of the world, and by that, I mean the human world, of that world, by that world and for that world, or it becomes nothing at all but a southbound flight of wild ideas. It is up to people to accept realistically what is wrong with their world, and to reform it, or otherwise, to fail to come to terms with their world, and thereby to fail in the long-run to adapt to changing conditions in the world. It is our choice, and by that "our" I mean all of us. It goes without saying that there are now very powerful people who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo of the distribution of power and resources in the world, and who stand systematically in the path of alternative development and constructive changes in the world that would be good for every person.
A framework like Omniprise.net is primarily to provide the platform and framework for the open communication of ideas and information that empowers people to make better choices, and to act in ways that are conducive to a freer and beter world.
We must recognize the degree to which many social and symbolic structures, and even many working systems, tied to an often violent and hierarhical past, have essentially been made obsolete and unnecessary in a world organized by instantaneous digital information and by the availability of a vast plethora of scientific knowledge that compounds exponentially with each passing year. We cannot underrate or downscore this one attribute of modern change and the implications of the information revolution in our lives, as we are stuck in a regressive mode with the perpetuation of anachronistic structures. More than anything, clear, realistic thinking that comes with the kind of freedom that the Internet now offers forms the basis for the emergence of a new, global worldview that can see beyond the ideological horizons of the past.
Omniprise.net is in a sense a revolutionary framework therefore, in the sense of being iconoclastic in relation to those obsolete modalities that tether us from constructive or adaptive change in a world that not only races forward, but accelerates in the process of change with each spin of the clock's hands. If it is a revolution, then it is one founded upon the revolutionary principles of promoting alternative development. It is a kind of pacifist revolution that is rooted in a value strategy toward the influencing and organization of humanity, and the distribution of power and resources in the world.
There is something indeed revolutionary in solar power that breaks the chains of monopoly by the all powerful oil companies and those countries that control oil production. Achieving alternative sources of power, especially upon a significant collective scale, frees us in more than one way, and opens the door to a wider range of possibilities for development than are otherwise achievable or realizable within a fossil-fuel global economy. We can say that the fossil-fuel economy is one that is bound for the fossil-beds.
Similarly, there is something also humanly revolutionary in crediting rights and responsibility toward nature, not just a part of it, or our dominion over it, but to all if it, whether or not we ourselves as human beings are part of the picture or not. The idea of carrying life in a coherent and self-sustaining manner, indeed in an evolutionary manner, beyond its natural earthbound contexts, becomes even more revolutionary.
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