1970’s
In the 1970’s I was selected as Data Systems Analyst in the Air Traffic System at the World’s busiest Airport Air Traffic Facility! Chicago O’Hare airport – ORD! After attended a few months of training in Oklahoma City I returned to work at O’Hare and began an intensive real time learning experience!
Due to the heavy volume of arrivals and departures at the airport, the only time I could work on the new ARTS III system was during the mid night shifts!
Began Writing Software:
Early on I began writing software to fix some needed software changes to fix problems that were not detected during the earliest development of the system!
I remember one night standing in front of this giant computer, taller and wider than me, with seemingly a thousands of buttons to display memory / contents – 32 bit bits – binary / octal! Yikes my mind was being stretched yet I managed to persist!
One Particular Middle of the Night:
This particular night, I had written an important patch to fix a serious problem from the night before which keep me from sleeping! Stress was really real! An essential ingredient necessary for one to grow!
The system had a horn and a failure light just part of the system! Well this night I hit the start button after having manually entered the software change coded in Octal!
Within seconds the system horn went off shaking me wide awake and the failure light shown bright!
I still remember cursing the computer because I couldn’t possible make a mistake!
Shaken by this event I was launched into investigating just went wrong!! This is hard work folks! Not easy especially when pride gets in the way!
Oh my I couldn’t believe my eyes – yes I my logic was the cause of the failure – humility found me in the middle of the night and wisdom began to grow in spite of the pride!
A Lesson was taught in the Middle of the Night with Stress:
A lesson for the ages was born – for today I am 81 and know this is exactly how “Artificial Intelligence” will be developed! Do not miss my point! Humanity seeks the Power of God as “In the Beginning” – Adam and Eve – in the Harden!
I wonder if ever I will be able to tell my grand children this story???
Yes Parental power can block and prevent the passage of wisdom unseen from generation to generation!
“AI” will have such power by default and young – very very young people today are being handed technology humanity has never before had access to let alone have parents and leaders handing this technology to little children who do not have the ability to discern or understand the great danger this technology represents!
And “Screen Time” impacts the brain of any human triggering the opposite side of the human brain to develop at a rate no other human generation has ever experienced!
I wonder if anyone will read what I wrote??? And just can I communicate to my grand children – “Do not be afraid – you were born for this day”!!
To my Grand Children: I pray one day something will shake you awake to see the coming written in the Book of Revelation! Yes you were born for this day and time! Protect your children by exposing them to God’s creation / “the Sun” and “the Son”!