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The end of the Baby Boom age

Every time has its own generation conflict. Generation Z is surging for new ways to organize society. They have grown up in the digital information age. The Baby Boomers are of the book information age. Information ages are not equal to other time frames but in parallel and heavy influencing other civilization developments. We (humanity) have gone from oral to clay and stone written, to paper, to press and now have landed in the digital data age. The information age is a sub category of this because it also includes the language component. The digital information age gives Gen-Z another perspective on civilization. This interview with Connor Tomlinson makes this clear. https://youtu.be/Pjh6L0BU5BU?si=0nUF7QwOkvu1eGTG   For me, this is a very hopeful development because the Baby Boom generation made a mess of civilization, I think.
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Updated the Free World People Website.

Cleaned the start page. Improved the text. Added "Free World People Information Technology" under "Unfolding progress". There is a lot going on outside the main news and outside what I call Web 2.0. This is an essential part of the ongoing progress. I follow this development and cover whatever is of public interest here and keep a current status overview on the new page https://www.freeworldpeople.org/unfolding-progress/fwp-it  (Web 2.0 is the current internet)

Engineering converts hope into a better future.

Errors are one of the biggest sources of knowledge. We (humanity) need to make errors to learn. One of the biggest errors we made in human history is inventing plastic without designing the process to recycle it. Only now microplastic even is our blood we start recognizing this error. Maybe there is a solution on the horizon. You can read more about it on the FreeWorldPeople real progress page .

Hopeless religious inspired wars.

Humanity has a history of ideologies that ignite conflicts. We also have a tendency of blaming some external source (a god, a book, an individual) Religions are some of these ideologies. Additionally, these religions have the tendency to be conserving. They stick to the lessens learned thousand of years ago. Times change and new lessens are learned. Humanity progresses beyond the old lessons. As long as conserving religions learn to dislike and even want to exterminate other religions, as long as they refuse to learn from human progress, as long the mutual conflicts will persist. This is why reacting or getting involved in these conflicts if they occur is useless. If groups of people refuse to participate in human progress and get involved in conflicts as a consequence, it is their own choice. And the consequences are their own problem. The Islam-Judaism and inter-Islam conflicts will persist as long as they don't share in the learnings of humanity but stay frozen in times by learn

The battle of the oceans

We often talk about 'the west' but there is more to it, I think. And this (more) has major implications on geopolitics. We should talk about the (autocratic) land people culture versus the (free) sea people culture. Is it the war for Ukraine and the potential war for Taiwan, or is there a deeper war going on? I think the latter. Let me explain. I see the world moving forward from a (land) nations dominated organization into a free space network organization. I can see a history of wars between freedom and serfdom. The most brutal ones have been the wars of the west and Japan against China. Think about the brutal Opium wars and the Second Sino Japanese War . And the permanent battle with sea powers surrounding it from the Russian Empire in all its forms of appearance (Communistic or not) till today. We live in a time when these wars culminate into global conflicts and new wars. Probably and hopefully the final wars. Beijing, Moscow, Vienna, and Paris have one thing in common, t

Why "tax" is becoming an old-fashioned word

The globalization of the past decades will have language consequences in the future. One of them will be the disappearance of the word tax. Its replacement (the modern equivalent) will be public service cost. I explain why: About the randomness of tax Where and what to pay tax for? People in a city environment (modern global society) need good public services and people are willing to pay for it. We (the free world people) require roads; public transport; an education network; a value exchange system (money); electronic communications (internet); air transport hubs (airports) and so on. All necessary for modern life. And all only possible if we work somehow together to maintain them. Three main categories of public services. If you analyze what main types of public services there are, they can be classified into three groups: security-services; network-services and care-services. Security services Security services are needed to prevent threats to have impact. And fight the impact of a