Absolute Transparency

Posted by Michael D. Mooring on Jan 13th, 2010 in Thoery | 4 comments

Absolute Transparency in short is a model for both businesses and individuals to provide transparency to them selfs, selected audiences or to the public. The people that make up a business would be recorded either 24/7 or just when clocked in. On a personal (non-business) level individuals would record what they wanted and inject that data into a database. As much as I thought my idea was unique, Microsoft Research is already well on their way to providing a viable model of Absolute Transparency, or what they call, “My Life Bits”

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mylifebits/

A book was written by the directors of the My Life Bits project, Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell. The book also includes a Foreword by Bill Gates:

---

Facebook has not taken it’s first step towards a model of transparency in their business via Facebook Live

Such transparency is a hot topic in Government as well: http://sunlightfoundation.com/opengovernmentdirective/

I’m sharing my brainstorm of the Absolute Transparency model with you to edit here: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9LVk4xbDIJTYTM2MzgwZjYtNzc1ZC00YTZmLTgwOWItZGMzMGFjN2M0ODk5&hl=en

As for my businesses and I, we will use Absolute Transparency once a viable implementation presents itself or once we create one. Absolute Transparency provides many great opportunities. In a business setting such as mine (web design and development) outsiders may login and view our computer screens. This will act as a silent teacher on how we innovate, code and design. When I implement Absolute Transparency into my personal life it will provide instant recall as stated above.

Of course with any great technology, it can be used and mis-used, just as humans we can create was it true or mis-create to hold up our egos as best we can till we die.

This has been an extremely brief introduction to the concept and model of Absolute Transparency. I intend to elaborate, manifest and share this model with all who would be interested.

---

Robby Hamilton from PeaceCanBe.com describes Absolute Transparency accurately in his video:

---

Thank you for reading my introductory article. Please comment below to share your opinion of Absolute Transparency with me and our readers.

Peace & Love,
Michael D. Mooring



4 Responses to “Absolute Transparency”

1. Rob Hamilton says:

   January 17, 2010 at 10:49 pm

   Michael, Great start here. I love the topic you are digging into. Not a light-weight idea. Only for the brave!

   I would love for you to share your personal reasons here on the site as to why you feel compelled to get involved with this idea. What drives your interest?

   Keep it up!
   Rob
2. Michael D. Mooring says:

   January 18, 2010 at 12:26 am

   Well Rob there are two flavors of AT. One flavor uses cameras and another uses an individuals decisions as you talked about in your video above.

   The camera flavor has many real world use cases like having a live camera stream at the beach, parks and streets. This could supply in real time the weather of a location like the beach or park along with their present population or the level of traffic in the street use case.

   The camera flavor becomes stronger tasting when we imagine it linking us to a town hall meeting or to give us a live video stream into a successful business’ operations. I pray that my website design company, Mass Distribution Media may manifest into such a example of AT, where the cameras would take the role of silent teachers for anyone to be as if they were looking over our sholder at us designing and developing inovative new age websites with commonly used and demanded skills like Photoshop and PHP. In my future office team members would have the option of streaming their operations and many options with how they choose to stream. As for me, I will be streaming both my compter screen and web cam as soon as we set up our new office space. I’m exploring the options for implementing that basic model of AT. Contacting the My Life Bits Microsoft Research group and asking for their input sounds appropiate.

   One of our clients at Mass Distribution Media is a skateshop in a local mall. Their shop is called Shogun Skate Shop. The owner John, likes the idea of streaming video of his shop to various channels on the web. If we set the cameras and the store up apropiatly, internet shoppers may be able to video chat with employees and ask questions, get a tour of new and hot products along with current items for sale and them but them from home through the same website that they just had the video chat with the employee. They may then choose in store pick up or shipping options.

   The above example also paints a picture of how a storm may be one big virtual tour, like second life stores, but with real video chat with real people at real stores demoing real products, but just like the second life store, the customer will never be intended to visit the actual location of the employee giving the live video demo of the product(s). This use case may cut down on floor space needed to give such demos and would be ideal for live online auctions. In my opinion a fun online auction would be using twitter with a custom auction application where new tweets would appear in the online auction room, literally realtime with server pushing and or comet.

   Now addressing the other flavor with is personal and less tangible, having the camera on somone most of the day may produce mixed results for differnt people. For some they may hold back from cursing and lying as these actions would be public and would reflect upon themselfs, especially in a professional setting. Others may become artifically flamboyant as their ego tricks them that their personality is not addiquit to draw and hold the attension of another person in a live web video setting or as their ego wants as many people watching as possible. But holding back from lying and acting bubly for the camera are not correct and there for not healthy on all levels. Not lying and not having the fear of having an inadiquit personality are natural side effects of being with the holy spirit. You will not set out to eradicate your habit of lying by targeting it directly for the ego will win that battle as you fight it the same plane with the ego. The higher ground always has the advantage in battle although the use of the word battle is painting such a picture is for explanation only, there never is conflict any conflict or battle, not even with the ego. Its simply a matter of saying hi to your higher self and holy spirit. As Deepak Chopra says in the seven spiritual laws, ‘this allows you to look down on your problems instead of up at them’ but the truth is that once in the spirit the problems simply do not exsist any more. The conflict or problem no longer exsists at that level because they are of a lower level and are only precieved as facts as on the level they were created. To tie this explaination of the power of the holy spirit with AT, natural and just AT is a natural side effect of being with the spirit and as you expalined in your video Rob as a natural way to become more whole, which by the way does feel really great I agree.

   Don’t you enjoy the natural resonance of the truth? I’m currently reading, learing and teaching “A Course in Miracles” which I highly recommend to all.

   Thank you for more spiritual concepts to the AT brainstorm document Rob. Was your experience of accessing and editing the docment easy? I plan to re-visit the document tomorrow and offload many more concepts (like the concepts which I have just presented in this comment reply) along with stylizing the document and giving it a syntax key so that editors may standardize and convey understand each others concepts in a single correct fashion.

   Thank you for your reply and shared interest in AT and for letting me embed your video.

   Peace & Love,
   Michael D Mooring
3. Mass Distribution Media - Delivering free quality new age web platforms to selected clients. says:

   January 21, 2010 at 7:06 pm

   [...] MASS DISTRIBUTION MEDIA has decided to completely share all of it’s internal documents for the public to view. We use Google Docs to create and share standard documents. By following this link: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9LVk4xbDIJTZTJmNWVkYmEtOTVhMS00Yzc3LWE3Y2EtYTIyNDBkZWM2OTlk&hl=en You are able to view our main “MDM” folder along with it’s complete contents. Contents include contracts, project plans design documents as well as brainstorm documents. MDM plans to set a new standard of digital transparency in an age when doing so is just a click away. We agree with and follow the theory of “absolute transparency” as presented in this article by Michael Mooring: http://michaelduanemooring.com/absolute-transparency/ [...]
4. Michael D. Mooring says:

   November 20, 2010 at 11:44 am

   Another article from Tom’s Hardware on the benefits and issues with AT,
   http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/idf-2010-context-aware-computing-keynote,2750.html#xtor=RSS-182