Author Archives: dgermann

If yes/not. Maybe we can converse with future generations, maybe not. Either way—if yes/not—how might we improve the species? If yes/not, do we try? :- Doug.

First we saw the beautiful mountain. Then we heard the echo. Then we went there. First travel pictures, second telephone, then we went there. Now we imagine “the” future. Is it likely we’ll speak with our generations before we travel? … Continue reading →

If cost per use (of a shared item, say) drops near zero, would there be a higher perceived value in higher cost (such as effort)? Should we ask our listeners their efforts to hear and think on our stories? Even … Continue reading →

To engage our far-sight, let’s look to technology trends, tell scenarios. As a next step beneath those, look over human patterns and directions, things like ephemeralization and etherealization. :- Doug.

You are invited to an impossible task—bending the arc of humanity. :- Doug.

If things are becoming more massively interlinked, what would you want next after interlinking? :- Doug.

Where can we leave traces and crumbs? :- Doug.

Edit Wikipedia entries in ways to attend improving humanity. :- Doug.

Add links and tags to things that could bend the arc of humanity. :- Doug.

Might we use flowing and interlinking to help us help them? :- Doug.

We had thought that to move into our futures we would become more technological. Could we not become also more human? And better human? Where and when have we been most human? :- Doug.

With machines taking over our tasks we are freed to become more human. :- Doug.

Individual artificial intelligence may throttle big AI. :- Doug.

Artificial intelligence is imponderable, but humanity is. :- Doug.

What if there were no technological improvement, or it did not matter, but if humanity did improve? How would that look? :- Doug.