Amalie, I abbreviated your quote to save space.amalie wrote:Dear Mikado,
Although I risk exhausting your patience ,
I would add to the fairly fundamental agricultural development theory I have put forward, a couple of asides.
That ISST or a similar institution would fulfill several specific functions for all the civil society conditions, developmental, corporate or economic, educational and even crisis and security (which might be considered together as they are both extreme conditions).
Because of the many dimensions to the information age utilities platform, information process for agricultural implementations can also be viewed within the context of informing international economic flows, monetary adjustments and export/import ratios. Therefore a country that finds it can grow a lot of soy beans but does not have many phone technicians can trade in a few food exports for a few good communications professors. A silly analogy I know but the argument is the same, to each his own, from each to all, such a system works both ways and both directions are useful.
Again, I reiterate that the information that you mention mostly exists. It would be a fundamental mistake to legislate a private company to release information that they own, from their system, without some type of renumeration. Likewise, the same with the military. Please don't use the old catch phrase that the military systems are paid for by the taxpayers ergo, we have the right to use them. It doesn't work. If I wanted to "borrow" a Bradley tank to take care of a certain neighbor, it would have been history by now but it doesn't work that way.
However, if you are referring to the purchase of time to utilize these satellites for the acquisition of data, as you suggested, then there is no problem with private rights. Who pays?
Mikado