Wireless Networking: The Aspen, Humanity and Cosmic Global Interaction

Recently I scanned a quote from an article by some really important guy on LinkedIn about wireless networking. I don’t think his name is really that important or the article for that matter but will paraphrase the quote here: “a wireless charger really isn’t wireless if it is plugged in to an outlet.”

Ok, so this dude is an influencer and very important person (VIP) on one social media site so I guess I need to stop and think about the profundity of his statement.  My point here is not to get into a semantically charged argument with the el jefe of LinkedIn, oops gave him away, nor with anyone in the field of cloud computing, data, communications, ubiquitous wireless this or that or anything closely associated with the Internet of Things (IoT).

Since I had time this day I was surfing the "net" and happened across another article that discussed the tapestry of our interconnectedness.  As I read the article “What was, is and might be” https://www.bebee.com/producer/@savvy-raj/what-was-is-and-might-be by Savvy Raj, she used a graphic with the words Interweaving Thoughts.  Simple in its presentation, it really got me thinking as I read through it.  After reading her article I then read the ensuing comments and yes a tapestry of interweaving thoughts unfolded before me. The article and comments became as one. As I read what Savvy had written, this article and the comments actually made me think of Aspen trees. No, I won’t go down a philosophical rant on garages and worms here, nor revert back to lines in the sand or six degrees of separation but I will go down a short path of interweaving thoughts and musings on Aspen trees and humans.

So why, might you ask, would I read an article on interweaving thoughts and fixate on Aspen trees? How could I do so in the context of the original article focused on plugging a charger into an outlet? How could I then try to draw a correlation between wireless networking, trees and human beings?

Bear with me; I think there is a point here. For one, no one tree is exactly alike just like humans. From a technology stand, our personal smart/computing devices although similar to each other take on their own personalities as we modify them to our personal desires, add apps, join or remove ourselves from one social media site or another, and share affinities as we connect or disconnect with humans around the globe. Although there was a connection before today our connectedness and the speed of communication is like no other time in history. And just for the record, I really am not concerned with whether an Aspen tree is plugged into the grid.

As I read Savvy’s article and then the ensuing comments I actually thought about taking steps along my journey and yes, those pesky little Aspen trees. How, on the surface, they appear singular in their being. Majestic in their beauty and taken for granted as they participate in nature, just like every other tree—tall things that stand in the ground for us to look at. You know big sticks with leaves on them that purportedly produce oxygen. But somehow these particular trees, and maybe others, are different.

You see, as I understand it, Aspen trees actually are an integrated/interwoven network of symbiotic entities connected at their roots that become and are one. As I read Savvy’s article and the comments, which were not unlike multiple other posts and comments--but on this day, for some reason I just stopped and contemplated what she was really saying and the well thought out comments that followed.

In her writings, she interweaves thoughts and things and in this particular case likened it all to a tapestry. Ok, so here is where Aspen trees and humanity comes in. I made a comment on her post about Aspens. Understand, I am not a tree or a textiles expert but like a tapestry where the threads are hidden in the completed work, so too are the roots of the Aspen.

On the surface a single tree appears to be just that, a single tree. When, in the case of Aspens for example, right under the surface there is an integrated network of roots that make the single tree actually an amalgamation of what seemingly is a myriad of disparate single pieces into one mutually beneficial relationship. The many become the one and a single network. There is no electrical outlet. The clouds they interact with are really those puffy things in the sky. There are no wires, unless you want to associate roots with wires, but I digress.

So why introduce humans into the equation? On the surface we are all different. Each of us are individual manifestations in our own right. We each have our own skin color, our ethnicity, our religions, our beliefs, our preferences, and opinions. We are all just individual beings who just happen to share, inhabit and walk upon the same earth regardless of how we got here.

But what happens if we actually observe our interactions and look just under the surface or all around us for that matter. The simplicity of the roots that connect us in a network of humanity.

· We all are beings.

· We all have brains.

· We all have skin.

· We all have red blood.

· We all breathe the same air.

· We all live on this little blue planet I affectionately refer to as ONE EARTH.

· And ultimately, we need each other to exist.

The similarities are there, sometimes out in the open—sometimes just under the surface. They are waiting for us to observe them despite how hard we try to underscore the differences, dismiss them and sometimes ignore them altogether.

Sometimes in the nearness, the threads of humanity are hidden in all the apparent complexity. But when one contemplates the completed work from a distance, the marvel of unparalleled interconnectedness unfolds in the tapestry of our existence in the universe. The individual becomes a transparent part of the whole, and in the tapestry of life here on earth--the individual threads, the clouds, people, water, the air we breathe, trees, the oneness of it all blends to become a marvelous cosmic global site to behold indeed. A tapestry we call the “Blue Planet.”

So like the Aspen, I wish you all an interwoven global and interactive journey where the threads of difference disappear and the blending of interwoven potential  exist to build the tapestry of Peace, Positivity, Kindness and Humanitarian Goodwill that can become your interwoven reality.

Keep making a difference: one person, one step at a time. And in the process of tapestry weaving: Be the difference in blending the threads for a better world. Our future just may depend on it.

For other works by Joel Anderson: https://www.bebee.com/@joel-anderson

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