Author Archives: dgermann

What is hope? Hope is doing the good work, knowing it is important, without promise of results. So that is my work: doing the good work, the important, without promise of fruition. :- Doug.

How it might be if people saw those who had a certain amount of machine in them as outcasts? Or vice versa: those with nanobots would be “smarter” than those without. Would there be wars, massacres, pogroms? What then is … Continue reading →

Somewhat like Havel in prison fighting himself to make his letters “complicated and thorny” to get them past the censors, so we each are in a prison of our own making fighting to get out past our censors a letter. … Continue reading →

We step out, we act on common human matters, we move toward life. :- Doug.

How human can we get? How much human can we stand? :- Doug.

I am friend to the ancestors. :- Doug.

We think of the ancestors, the forebears, as a straight line back and forward. Yet that is not the only percept: the writer of Hebrews speaks of a cloud or crowd: so we could have a fractal or a circle … Continue reading →

What, dear generations, do you need to be happy and productive? Or is there something else you would rather be? :- Doug.