I have a vision. It's the year 2052 and I'm talking to a child who asks 'Ms. Nayer, is it true there was a time when some people did not have a place to live, let alone a place they loved to live in? Also is it true that some people went without food, water and paid for energy?'
I respond 'Yes dear, it is true. Then the Roaring 20's of this century happened and everything changed for the better. We started printing our buildings, water from air panels, more greenhouses and shifted to clean, free energy.'
At the end of this blog post are links to the CURE Solutionist Center Action Plan and proposal on how to bridge the digital divide based on my decades of work in that field that has trained over 3,000 folks since 1984 how to use a PC computer. We have solutions to our problems with the ability to make
Homelessnes & inadequate housing
Hunger
Thirst
Energy bills
Ancient Concepts.
How?
By printing (i.e. 3d printing) ample environmentally conscious housing out of hemp, include greenhouse room in printed homes, water from air (atmospheric water generators) panels and devices, plus free clean energy systems like magnetic, solar, hydro and geothermal.
Many of the solutions described are still considered unconventional, illegal, untested, or simply ignored by existing systems. Yet history repeatedly shows that today's impossibility often becomes tomorrow's necessity. Today is yesterday's tomorrow.
The Action Plan includes:
The Tubman Mission that explores 3D-printed housing, hempcrete, hemp plastics, atmospheric water generation, clean energy systems and resilient infrastructure designed for a changing world.
The Carver Mission focuses on sustainable agriculture and food security.
The Flipper Mission addresses water access, conservation, and environmental restoration.
The Baker Mission offers solutions to our mental wellness and community upliftment through co-creating the highest good for all.
In the last century, when I became a cyber missionary, alongside these physical solutions, the Digital Divide Bridge seeks to empower people with the skills needed to thrive in the Information Age. By combining digital literacy, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and emerging technologies, the mission aims to ensure that no community is left behind as society evolves.
While many of these self financed proposals have faced delays, rejections or regulatory barriers, every challenge has created additional time for research, refinement, education and preparation.
A "no" yesterday does not mean a "no" forever
These documents, videos and plans are shared in the spirit of collaboration, inviting others to review, improve, expand and help transform ideas into practical, operational solutions. Use your favorite A.I. for a time saving summary.
The goal is simple: strengthen humanity's ability to adapt, overcome challenges and build a future where technology, people and the planet work together in harmony.
Nothing Is Impossible | AI, Hempcrete, Clean Energy & The Future of Huma...
Tubman Mission regarding 3d printing housing - The county is still using the 2015 building codes that do not include 3d printing. I made the mistake of assuming that the county was on the 2018 building codes which allow for printing housing. The big research piece I did 10 years ago is posted here. New Hemp Cities. Autumn 2023 update.pdf
Flipper Mission - Regarding our clean water availability and better environment management. The county said no to repairing the Rucker Canyon Dam. In the meantime I promote water from air, environmental awareness and magnetic water cleaning systems.
Baker Mission - Regarding our violence situation and the need to co-create peace on earth. The city of St. Louis said they have so many proposals they would not consider it. Letter from them is included on page 126 of the Action Plan.
[Written with the help of ChatGPT - I just love surfing data tsunamis on a keyboard of love and joy.]
For more than four decades I worked to help people from every background cross the digital divide. Today that divide still exists—sometimes in new and unexpected forms.I got my first typewriter as a Christmas present in 1958 from my parents. The first time I touched a computer was in 1970 at the University of Connecticut when I was a freshman there and the internet was only available to the military and colleges. I spent a dozen years in broadcasting in NYC, mostly on computers / word processors.
Beginning in 1984, long before YouTube, social media, or even widespread internet access, I trained people to use computers. Over the years I helped more than 3,000 people learn the skills they needed to participate in a world that was rapidly becoming digital.
For many of them, learning to use a computer opened doors to employment, communication, education, and opportunity. Watching people gain that confidence and independence was some of the most meaningful work of my life.
Decades later, I am still engaged with the digital world. Today I write a blog, run a YouTube channel, and continue advocating for the issues I care about. Recently I decided to take the next step: building an online community where conversations could happen in one place.
After watching Youtube videos, something I still marvel at, remembering when video meant brown magnetic tape. Reading about the platform Skool and studying materials about building communities online, I signed up and began setting up a group. The idea seemed simple: create a space where people interested in my work could gather, discuss ideas, and collaborate.
But I quickly encountered something unexpected.
When creating a community on the platform, the instructions say to “invite three people.” I did exactly that. I sent invitations and expected that once the invitations were sent, I would be able to open the community.
Instead, the system continued to block publishing.
Only after contacting support did I learn that the real requirement was not simply inviting people, but having three people fully join the community before the platform allows it to be published.
The difference between those two instructions—“invite three people” and “three people must join”—may seem small, but in practice it creates a significant barrier.
For someone who has spent decades helping people navigate technology, the experience was striking. It reminded me that the digital divide has not disappeared; it has simply changed form.
In the past, the divide was about access to computers. Today it is often about understanding systems, interfaces, and rules that are not always clearly explained.
When instructions are ambiguous, people can find themselves blocked by software even when they are trying to follow the rules exactly as written.
This experience doesn’t erase the progress technology has made, but it does highlight an important lesson for anyone designing digital platforms: clarity matters. Small wording choices can determine whether someone feels welcomed into a system or locked out of it.
After four decades of helping people cross the digital divide, I find myself once again navigating it—this time from the other side.
Perhaps that is simply the nature of technology: it keeps moving, and we must keep learning how to move with it.
But it is also a reminder that the goal of technology should always be the same one many of us have been working toward for decades: making the digital world more accessible, understandable, and human.
I’m sharing this experience not to criticize any particular platform, but to highlight how small design choices can unintentionally create barriers. If someone from Skool happens to read this, I hope you’ll consider how a simple clarification—changing “invite three people” to “three people must join your community before publishing”—could prevent confusion for many new users. Platforms that help people build communities play an important role in today’s digital world, and clear, human-centered communication makes that mission stronger. I would welcome the opportunity to resolve this situation and continue building a constructive community around the work I care about.
This experience raises a broader question for the technology industry. As more civic life, organizing, and community building move onto digital platforms, the design of those platforms increasingly determines who can participate. Small interface decisions—like unclear instructions or automated gates—can unintentionally exclude the very people who have spent decades working to expand access. If the goal of technology is to empower communities, then usability and clarity are not minor details; they are part of digital equity itself.
Any ideas for generating change at this corporate level, please post your ideas below.
🕊️ Joy, empowerment, and a blueprint for new traditions
🚀 Let’s Create Global Celebrations
Imagine if our on line gatherings were more like D.J. Cassity (above) than those boring meetings we have now. Work can be celebrated too.
📕 In January 2026, on Dr. King’s birthday weekend, I’ll release an expanded, printed edition with even more tools, stories, and templates. Zoom announced its Zoomtopia 2025 A.I. addition so that and other media evaluations and techniques will be included. Like the old Macintosh commercial use to say 'it's an exciting time to be alive.'
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Let the cyber celebration begin!
Let the cyber celebration begin!
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Enjoy your Cyber Parties - Digital Dancing!
Please post below your ideas on the celebratory work. I am so happy with the concept I'm giving the first edition away for free. "Some things are too good not to share."
Happy Birthday, Chef Ashbell, with many more grand and glorious decades ahead. Like the Prophet Moses, you are among the chosen to continue to do ever greater works, for which I give thanks and praise.
When I was at the lowest point in my life, after you scanned me, your smile lifted me and the meal that followed confirmed life is worth living, no matter what. If I don't like something, I change the menu next time I shop.
Please know that the ripples of your kindness and brilliance flow far beyond the screen, the table, and the timeline. JOY!!!
✨ Even When No One Sees It…
Ashbell Does Good / Great Anyway!!!
The balance of this post is put together with the help of ChatGPT, Google's AI. Chef Ashbell is an important element in our fight to deliver ourselves from evil and stupid.
🥂 Honoring Chef Ashbell on His Birthday
Today is the birthday of my dear friend, beyond genetics, my brother Chef Ashbell, a culinary revolutionary, international legend, and digital soul who’s connected kitchens and communities across time and continents. Since the last century as a chef on The Today Show, he’s been celebrating food not just as nourishment—but as culture, storytelling, and resilience.
For those who don't know him, I asked ChatGPT to write a short bio on him.
Chef Ashbell McElveen — Culinary Storyteller and Legacy Weaver
Chef Ashbell McElveen was raised in Sumpter, South Carolina—where the foundation of “good food” was more than nourishment; it was a birthright. From those family-rooted traditions grew his lifelong mission: to preserve and elevate Southern foodways and Black culinary legacies.
At just 19, Chef Ashbell traveled to France for academic study—and stayed to train hands-on in Paris kitchens. Eager to immerse himself further in regional French cuisine, he returned after his undergraduate studies, spending his summers apprenticing, including at the famed Haynes Restaurant founded by Leroy Haynestheafricacenter.org.
In the 1990s, Chef Ashbell became a beloved fixture on WNBC’s Weekend Today Show, where he joyfully brought the vibrant, diverse culinary flavors of New York City’s immigrant and Black communities into living rooms across America—making cuisine, culture, and stories visible and delicious.
Driven by a passion for preservation and education, he founded the James Hemings Foundation (now Society) in 2014. Under his leadership, the organization studies, documents, and celebrates the profound contributions of African American cooks to America’s culinary identity.
📖 The James Hemings Legacy: Good Work, Delayed Recognition
James Hemings (who rumor has it may be a previous incarnation of Ashbell) was an enslaved chef trained in Paris in the late 1700s, brought French cooking techniques and iconic dishes like macaroni and cheese, crème brûlée, and French fries to American tables. And yet, for most of American history, his name was erased.
Thanks to the profound dedication of Chef Ashbell, Hemings legacy is brought back to life.
During the 2024 Olympics in Thailand, “Mac and Cheese” trended in the United States with 1,443 posts. A child in Bangkok ate a version of Hemings' creation, centuries and oceans away from its origin.
Many good deeds take time to root and grow. Both men have, are building cyber bridges to unite in the styles of gratitude, grace, unity and celebration. DELICIOUS!
🎥 Featured Videos
Here are powerful videos to deepen this celebration and meditation on legacy, joy, and perseverance:
As a computer missionary since 1984 be assured "This ain't my first time at the rodeo."
I joined Facebook on November, 2007. Within the last two weeks I have lost access to my Facebook page for no logical reason.
I did not need photo identification when I signed up or through the decades I've been posting material. Yet, without warning, I've lost access to my page that without my actions now requires photo id for me to log on.
Written with the assistance of ChatGPT A.I. - when these digital divide bridges are shattered by corporate resistance, we will be free.
I cuss way to much to write this press release this nice.
I am J. Nayer Hardin, a long-standing advocate for technology access and founder of Computer Underground Railroad Enterprises, a cyber division of the original since 1984. Facebook is cyber raping me, denying mr access to my Facebook account since May 29, 2024 due to my inability to provide a photo ID.
This situation is exacerbated by the state of Arizona's refusal to accommodate remote photo ID services, despite the widespread availability of virtual platforms like Zoom, Skype and GoogleTalk. Use of modern technology can provide the photo without having to go through radiation fields from police scanners, 5g+ towers, smart meters, cell phones, dirty electricity, etc. Because I am a shut-in I lost my access to my pages.
I thought the ADA stopped discrimination based on disabilities back when I had none. I was wrong. Though I am able to go on line, physically I can't go to the state to get ID so still no photo ID for me." Folks who use to be called 'shut-ins' are now by government rule, 'shut-outs.'
Facebook Lockout: A Threat to Well-Being and Livelihood
With epilepsy strong enough to have rendered me legally dead in 2014 and being locked out my multi-decade FB communication channel, I understand even more the importance of using technology wisely.
This corporate policy of no humans to talk to is counterproductive - it is evil - live spelled backwards. Facebook sends notifications of the posts being denied access to, some featuring birthdays of many folks I love who have died.
In a series of urgent messages to Facebook, I described the stress and health risks posed by being locked out of my Facebook account, a platform I use to stay connected to family and friends as well as many beloved other good souls who have contributed love and ideas for years.
In a cyber instant a main pipeline was shattered for sharing decades of environmental, computerization, printing and other healing research, inspirations and solutions, like printing environmentally conscious structures and infrastractures out of hemp. In development are ideas to print cities using wind damage reduction dome shaped buildings with free energy, atmospheric water generation, zinc based radiation reduction, greenhouse rooms, EMF reduction layer (Faraday Cage printed in), hemp plastic layer (or two) to strengthen and waterproof structures up to the roof and hempcrete to make them fire resistant while reducing the cement carbon footprint, estimated at up to 9% of greenhouse gases anually. Quoting my wonderful step-daughter April Akuna: If I was an asshole, I'd be mad! I am not an asshole. I'm not mad. Like when I did the computer training in the last century of over 3,000 folks in NYC, I'll build this bridge too.
The Injustice of Arizona's Photo ID Requirement
This situation highlights a broader issue: the state of Arizona's inflexibility in issuing photo IDs without an in-person visit, despite the feasibility of remote verification methods.
In this age of Zoom, the office visit could be done online. The inability to obtain a photo ID has left me unable to comply with Facebook's security requirements, further entrenching digital divides.
I have never been arrested. Never been to jail. I've put everything I have into my work since 1984, and now the state is demanding I risk my life traveling through radiation fields in order to obtain photo ID. Minimizing my exposure to 5G, EMFs, smart meters, police X-Ray guns... that is how I have survived 10 years after the grand mal that killed me. All 4 seizures happened in elevated radiation areas.
Science agrees about radiation exposure and epilepsy, which is 'abnormal electrical activity in the brain without physical cause." Since the cause is not physical, within, it must be external. i.e. our ever increasing exposure to various radiation and EMF sources that exceed the body's natural ability to survive in these conditions.
According to a study published in 2013 on the NIH site they say more research is needed. I am that research needed.
The NIH also published a paper/report issued in 2021
Manmade Electromagnetic Fields and Oxidative Stress—Biological Effects and Consequences for Health
"Conclusions
...In summary, indications for increased oxidative stress caused by RF-EMF and ELF-MF were reported in the majority of the animal studies and in more than half of the cell studies. Investigations in Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats provided consistent evidence for oxidative stress occurring after RF-EMF exposure in the brain and testes and some indication of oxidative stress in the heart....The studies show that very young or old individuals can react less efficiently to oxidative stress, which of course also applies to other stressors that cause oxidative stress. Further investigations under standardized conditions are necessary to better understand and confirm these phenomena and observations."
An Urgent Call for Action
This situation underscores the need for more inclusive policies both from corporate giants like Facebook and state governments. My experience is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by individuals with disabilities and limited resources in navigating bureaucratic and digital barriers to freedom and solutions.
When teaching How To Compute in the last century, it was / is stressed that computers are the keys out of Babylon, how they give us the ability to speak the same language.
The greed, censorship and degradation that comes from corporations and the government I had no way of factoring in at the time. In an instant, what amounts to a life's work published on a platform that will not let me in, one that I trusted and pray I can trust again. I lost access to the feedback from those who consider or sent love. When I created a FB account the requirement was a valid email address and being over 13. I had no idea it was a set-up.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, consider the need for immediate action to address these accessibility issues.
I urge Facebook, the state of Arizona and other relevant companies and agencies to adopt more inclusive and flexible policies that do not favor exclusively the rich and healthy over the not yet rich &/or disabled on the information super highway.
Karma is a blessing to good souls and a bitch to everybody else.
I pray we are at a turning point, as we enter this next quarter century, to wisdom as our guiding principle rather than what the hell is going on now!"
