Summary


8W8 - Global Space Tribes is a new way to see the world. It is written for everyone who uses the Internet, travels and is interested in any aspect of the world in the 21st century.

The Golden Sky is a community comprised of 15 charismatic Internet activists from the worlds of business, finance, media, government and non governmental agencies, bio sciences, medicine, social and religious activists and environmentalists. They came together from the four corners of the world to meet on Hawaii in the fantastically beautiful mountain home, EA-RA, of the Chinese Internet billionaire, Winston Chee. This is where they develop a new world modeling engine, ultimately named, 8W8, which would find the invisible digital elements, i.e. the online population and its digital activities, and render them visible to the dynamic world stake holding factors they define.

Global Space Tribes are the Internet users that The Golden Sky is able to identify with 8W8. They exist out of elements that come together in streams and interconnect with other streams around the world and can be visualized and volumized from the cockpit of the 8W8 world modeling engine, which The Golden Skyers dubbed the 8W8 Helicopter for the purpose of entering virtual rides. The pilot of the 8W8 Helicopter, albeit, an Internet user, a marketer, a traveler or political candidate or simply "You" of any background, could virtually ride over the flattened but fragmented world identifying subjectively or objectively new virtual structures, tracking the flow and concentrations of criteria such as: the presence or lack of wealth; trade, interconnectivity, religious or social beliefs, age and gender, environmental conditions, peace record, happiness and enlightenment, and any other factors that are normally invisible for the naked eye.

When BridgeMan, a business partner of Winston Chee from San Francisco, comes to EA-RA and learns about 8W8, he saw an immediate benefit for himself and the world in general. He extolled the concept as a way of making the invisibilities of the 21st century visible and of improving the state of the world... Enjoy!



Prologue

Before the world was flattened and digitalized, we depended on ancient forms of communication, TV, Radio and the telephone to see around the corners of our global neighborhoods. Even now, with always-on Broadband high definition Star Trek-like communication devices, we are still unable to catch more than a marginal peek of developments occuring beneath the surface of the earth and beyond the sky. Diverse perspectives and backgrounds nuance our view of the world. Yet, as an international business traveler and Internet executive, I was left with a sense of discomfort because I could never see more than what my five senses allowed me to perceive, knowing all a long that there was so much more going on below the wings of my aircraft. Although living in the post digital world, I could not see how the world had become integrated, nor, could I see how others see what I could and could not see. Since I could not find a tool that would allow me to make visible those things that had remained invisible to my senses and since I could conceptualize what it was that was needed, I decided to develop the tool, myself. I knew that I wanted to render, dynamically, the world stake holding factors, and to ascertain the digital impact on a global and local level. As a believer that knowledge improves the state of the world I developed an out-of-the-box approach that facilitates my abilitiy to communicate my thoughts and ideas in an innovative and entertaining way: The novel 8W8 - Global Space Tribes. I hope you enjoy and can use it.