Information and the State of the Aevumih
Information and the State of the Aevumih
A Treatise on Technology by Avrak i-Ihhliae tr’Merrok, MS
We live in an age where information is the key to success; success for both the individual as well as the Aevumih as a whole. Our forefathers were keenly aware of this fact, as databases such as the RID Supercomputer located in Ihhliae were developed and implemented well over one-hundred years ago in an effort to educate the Rihannsu citizenry and provide easier access to developing technologies. Several large inventions have come about from these ancient databases, including Type IV cloaking technology, the original Mark I Plasma Torpedo design, and sublight-engine noise dampeners to name a few. A recent technology search into the inventions stemming from database designs turned up 3,523 new patent developments within a five-year span, not including the many tens of thousands of additional research designs entered into the database itself which have not yet been developed.
The state of the Aevumih today is much more restrictive in its allowance of information than the days of our ancestors. Large databases and mega-computers like the Ihhliae Business Machines Z-7600 have been under restricted research sales and government-only use for the past decade. Since the development of the Merrok Research and Design BladeWing (MRDBW) Information Mega-Computer in 2387, only Tal Shiar and Galae purchases have been allowed, severely restricting other commercial and research developmental use. Private citizenry use of these machines has been restricted since the same time as the curfew decree, just two years ago, and new developments for both the IBM and MRDBW machines have been put on halt pending the release of information access restrictions.
While the Aevumih has openly stated that the general use of massive, ultra-scale, inter-world database systems could be used by saboteurs, terrorists, and enemies of the Aevumih, it is a foolhardy decision made by a lack of understanding about the way information flows. Our key developments, as a society, have always come those independent and privately funded inventors who have traditionally utilized research devices like the current mega-computers of today. The active restriction of access to these databases will cause greater harm to the Aevumih than the potential for terrorist threats to the Rihannsu citizenry.
The Aevumih and the Rihannsu people have endured many trials and tribulations throughout the years. Aside from our journey and arrival on the Twin Worlds, wars, pestilence, conflict, and politics have all taken its toll on the great people of our society. I love the Aevumih and I want to see it prosper, but as a point of observance, the current policy of information restriction will lead to future problems and issues for our people much as our early settlement decline to passivity in the technological realms hindered us in the initial contact wars with the Federation and space travel early on. We already have the means and the will to outsmart our enemies, but the restriction of information will only serve to hinder us in the years to come as we lose the technological edge we currently have. I write these words with the hope that they will be heard and implemented, for the good of all.
Life to the Aevumih,
Avrak i-Ihhliae tr’Merrok, MS, Astrophysics