The Future We Deserve is my attempt to mobilize more people towards creating the future we deserve. I want to find a community to discuss and learn about other perspectives on the future. My hope is that out of that conversation might come new ways of actually creating these positive futures. What might that look [...]
Read more →We have the ability to transform the world. Previous generations had the possibility to transform society, but since the technological breakout of the 20th century we have attained the power to transform the world. Our first real transformative step was to leave the planet a desolate husk, devoid of life, a quiet radioactive wasteland with [...]
Read more →EUfugee, n. – a refugee with an EU passport who is legally entitled to reside and work anywhere within the EU. This is a bookmark for something which may be important if Greece has political violence.
Read more →We are in crisis. One third of the population of our species live in abject poverty and horror. They watch their children die young. They die young themselves. You know these people are out there. The world is on fire. We have climate change. We have massive destruction of the natural world, mass extinction that [...]
Read more →Generally speaking, people don’t think of me as a romantic. I will not close my eyes to the worst things the world has to offer, and while I work in subtle ways, I do not rest. I’ve dedicated my life above all other things to making a difference for the very poorest, and while it’s [...]
Read more →Hello, everybody! This is an update for the authors and supporters of The Future We Deserve. The book is going very well. We’ve raised 70%80%88% 101% – $2017 – of the $2000 we need to do the book. We have raised the money to do the book!. Feel free to donate additional funds, but we [...]
Read more →In Europe, we fought two senseless wars. World Wars, we called them, started over nothing but childish games of gain and loss. Whatever dreams of wealth and power were imagined to come from those conflicts were as nothing compared to the real gains that would have been made had the money, time and talent gone [...]
Read more →(play this, and read on) In 1991, to all intents and purposes, world peace broke out. The US had won. Truth, Justice and the American Way – democracy itself – had been vindicated by the economic collapse of the Soviets. Even with 50% defense spending in the US, even with tensions between the US and [...]
Read more →See slides 167 (!) onwards of this excellent presentation on creativity. It’s really a very, very clever model of creative relationships, and I’m going to do more reading up on this guy’s work.
Read more →I’m not sure I believe this. But I’m afraid, sometimes, that I do. And, yes, when the President of the United States of America can “legally” order the murder of US citizens, and forbid legal aid of those so-sanctioned, the Constitution is dead. The only way we’re getting ahead on this one is new technology, [...]
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