Author Archives: dgermann

Google is the artificial intelligence that pads around the house in bedroom slippers. :- Doug.

Our every thought to the 300-year grandchild elders, our every Google search on the related subjects, our every conversation about them, helps them develop towards a better humanity. It is not some magic voodoo, rather opening paths in the common … Continue reading →

Make a story that carries our elders further. :- Doug.

Elders: live in an augmented present. :- Doug.

Do myriad Google searches on futures studies, 300 years ahead, developing humanity: train this artificial intelligence on purpose. Set up computer programs and algorithms—and maybe our own AI—to do this work deeply. :- Doug.

Elders ought not care what transpires with artificial intelligence nor genetics nor other technologies to the extent they are background of humanity. Humans and their development are our proper foci. :- Doug.

Bigger makes an artificial intelligence more attractive to more users, making it bigger still. Until, perhaps, it gets so big it slows. :- Doug.

Every time we think of the 300-year grandchild elders, we are learning, and we are reaching out. It is a similar process to learning to ride a bike, paddle a canoe, or write a journal: developing a skill. Only this … Continue reading →

Be a sensitivist—one who practices sensitivity. :- Doug.

We have a valuable message. We have an intended recipient group. What are our theaters? :- Doug.

There are three questions: 1. What messages? 2. How to transmit? :- Doug.

We are a Moses seeing glimpses of the promised land, but not going there ourselves. What can we send along with these grandchildren to help them? :- Doug.

Here is the north face: We can see the pathways to futures that people are using. We do not see the other side of the mountain, nor the mountains beyond, nor the pathways down and up. We can expect people … Continue reading →

The lesson to invite from the generations and the elders is that we need to be continually and constantly attending the generations, sending them our messages, developing our messages. Sharpen, grow, cultivate. The subtext is that to do that, we … Continue reading →

So we cannot come to a conclusion about what the messages are we want to convey, the things we want to invite. We cannot devise the best methods and paths the messages should travel. :- Doug.