Monthly Archives: July 2019

If any effect

No, we don’t know whether we will have any effect. No, we don’t know what to do, what stories to tell, what messages to send. But we do have a power. Our power is try. Our power is far-sight. Our … Continue reading

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Is human?

What is human? :- Doug.

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More or less human?

In 300 years will people be more human or less? :- Doug.

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After those projects?

What projects are next for humanity? After those, will we think the same as we do now, value similar things? :- Doug.

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Kurzweil intelligence

Kurzweil is about accelerating intelligence. Is intelligence what we most want? Acceleration? How about heart, spirit, humanity, humaneness, slowness, silence, depth? :- Doug.

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Do we ephemeralize?

As life speeds up, the things we do and make ephemeralize. Reminds me of Bucky. Do we too ephemeralize? Do we become brain and internet connection, and stop going to meet one another? Insights become ephemeral: at least for me … Continue reading

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Always deaf?

Are future people always deaf to us? :- Doug.

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Parental leverage

What would be good leverage for you when you provide legal caring for your parent? If for each equivalent to a month of nursing home expense, it saved you two? Seven? Eleven? :- Doug.

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Highest personal dilemma

To influence generations set before them highest personal dilemma. Here movement begins. How can I emerge if I do not first immerse? :- Doug.

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Larger stories

Let’s move to larger stories. :- Doug.

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Is any future good for humanity?

Is any future good for humanity? Can we make it good for the future to have a humanity? :- Doug.

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Intimate now this mist

This fog envelops me Why won’t you let me see? Did you descend a cloud from sky? Or rise from pond and saturated earth And stillness in the wind? Or from the breath of people round? It matters not: my … Continue reading

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300 year vignette

Write a vignette from the life of a particular one of your own 300-year grandchild elders. What genre will you choose? Setting? Is this person he, she, or other? How old? What project consumes this one? What dilemma arises? :- … Continue reading

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At 120 how many know?

At age 120 how many generations will you know, will know you? At 150? :- Doug.

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Retirement imagination

Retirement—a failure of imagination. :- Doug.

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Babes at 80

When mother lives to 150 will those at 80 be babes? :- Doug.

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Your life’s story

If what you believe about your life’s story today is the same as when you were twenty and fifty, you are not yet growing. :- Doug.

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