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Letters to Bill Gates
by Andrei Vartic
The experience should be led by love
The fourth letter
And here is the project of the fourth letter, which I didn't manage to send while I was writing this text because of the lack of finances
(for three months I didn't get my salary of 150 lei per month, which is equivalent to 150/4,5=33,(3)$);
. August 31, 1995
Dear Mr. Bill Gates!
In the Romanian city Brashov
(one of the most industrially developed city from this country)
lives Adrian Moruzi. This Adrian Moruzi is the mayor of Brashov a city with a great cultural and economical antiquity near the castle Bran, the supposed residence of the famous Dracula
( your fellow countryman Francis Cappola took care of him)
but also a man captivated by computers and information. So, this man asserts that he discovered a mathematical solution that, be attentive sirs softists!, chooses from N possibilities, the best of them, and even the only very best. So we face the idea of a new mathematical model that takes decisions...
And we, just to confirm that the Highways of decisions are not illusions, and that this thing also exists in other minds, we try to show that from a lot of probabilities, of possible achievements of one event, exist some of them, or exists one of them, that in the conditions of dissipate development (after Prigogine) has the biggest chances to be achieved. It is the event, state, that has a maximum development with the smallest increase of Entropy.
And if a write today about Adrian Moruzi, mayor philosopher-mathematician from Brashov, I make it remind that the ancient Greeks (Pithagora, Solon, Plato) thought that the Politic, as the Economic, is the part of Philosophy, that means from the sciences, may be from the exact sciences. Just not to degenerate in misery and crime the World must be ruled with laws, but laws, mister Gates, means good decisions.
I don't want to tell you by this that Windows 108 (for example) must (or will) take the place of the members of Parliament. But the principle of indetermination (discovered by Heinsenberg) teaches us: the more we know about the object in space we will know less about his impulse. Or, in informatics, this principle will sound like this: as more information we know about one event the harder we take a decision about it.
Custeau & C. say the truth when they assert that they are very pessimist in which regards the Computer and its capacity to build a lasting future, without such a violence... This people even assert that the Computer drove the World on the way to Hell. It's because that endless virtual world are filled rapidly into the poor mind of a citizen, but mostly in a child's head, that already can live without the smell of the mountain fir, without the opening of an gulf, without an calm breath of wind or the proud destruction of the Ocean, without the shark's fangs or without the pure, wild, superbeautiful Romeo-Juliet syndrome, without the happiness of touching a leaf, without the perfect performance of blossoming in 5 petals, the blossoming that the Japanese made a national celebration (sacura!).
Or, I repeat what I have already said exist the Salvage: the Info Highways must be subjugated by the Highways of Decisions. The wanton illusions don't have to reach the people in other way but tales
(but this process don't have to be simplified or eroded so much with the help of the computer so disappears the necessity of equilibration of an too rationalized life with the death in front).
This thing comes out not only from the reading of Bible
(see the Solomon's formula the science multiplies the human pains),
but also the eastern studies. The Japanese, Chinese, Philippines understand things differently then us the Europeans and Americans, the knowledge of the world. We run after new horizons, after something more, but they chisel the detail, trying to know the Unique. It is a great difference that, by virtue of their accelerate endowment with the newest technologies, that makes them incalculable not only in martial arts...
We can't stand against neither the Christianity, which makes our religious life, nor the illusions that we were and we are the masters of the World because of our white skin. We have to learn to distinguish the illusion, the virtual world and the reality (the Indians call it Maya). It seems that this is message of the Solon-Platon's Athlantida. Athlantida is a knowledge and it learns us that everything that is built on an illusion and virtuality dies. Just like that the Info Highways will die, may be even his creator the Man, if we will not drive away from the World the illusions, bad virtuality Maya, if we won't transform the Information into an clear enough argument of the Decisions.
I didn't talk with Custeau, I don't know this great man of the science, but I know he says the truth. His truth comes out from mathematical calculations, from the attentive research of the development of the human civilizations. Soft-man from the whole world must concentrate their attention to the Highways of Decisions, if they want future for the Man (and for the computer).
I don't know what is Bill Gates' position in this dance with the smell of Cosmos, but I see how men are waiting for Windows 95 just like after the elixir of eternal life. Mr. Gates, please come back to Leonard da Vinci's picture - the Wonderful can be touched by the people who have the power to see and decide. May be then you will understand why I am writing with such insistence.
Yours faithfully A V
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