Author Archives: dgermann

Communication problem solved! If/When we become a-mortal, and keep growing our minds all along, the people to tell our stories to the 11th generation elders will be we, ourselves. :- Doug.

Start with things we want—the conservative, normal path—help the paralyzed walk, improve the Internet, improve daily lives. :- Doug.

Humans want to exceed our limits—this too is a human essence. :- Doug.

The diseases we cannot fix with technology will be the tasks of humanity: people doing bad things to one another, leaving our elders lonely, bored, and useless, without someone to touch them, to need them. :- Doug.

Convivium with touch of skin, conversing and intimacy, may be essentials of humanicity. :- Doug.

Our minds are wormholes. The wormholes the science fiction writers have guessed. But better than that. Imagine a wormhole—that’s the wormhole! :- Doug.

Inquiry tools: What is our assumption base for this future we propose? What can we know of it? How can we find out more? Why do we explore this? How does this fit in with or break from history? For … Continue reading →

We speak of future advances as if everyone will have them. :- Doug.

I set before us thoughts. We together give back original thinking. :- Doug.

The elders’ questions need to be not on the order of whether we should do what is proposed (someone will do it whatever we say); rather, what should be the human responses to these futures? How do we turn them … Continue reading →

It is up to elders to peer into the human essence with sufficient resolution to influence our growth. :- Doug.

Ultimately we will never get to ultimately. It is a horizon that keeps rolling in front of us because some of our reach exceeds some of our grasp. One leg is always behind the other. :- Doug.

What would be a good term for a bunch of elders? How about kaleidoscope, like butterflies? A rainbow, swarm, coalition, watch, parliament? Glimmer, radiance, brilliance, panache, scintillation, shimmer, élan, dash, impetus, verve, enthusiasm, aurora, beacon, blaze, luminosity, sparkle, beam, glow, … Continue reading →

What’s your project? :- Doug.

If science—and probably the human world—progresses one funeral at a time, what happens when funerals become rarer, further apart? Will we stay daring longer? Ought we? Will we be householders longer, overpopulate? Will we think longer-term? Even be more spiritual? … Continue reading →