Category Archives: Eldering

One story we can tell: the thing we fear to lose in the futures: our humanity. In 300 years our grandchild elders can read their own stories backwards and see the critical choices. They sigh. Then perhaps turn to face … Continue reading →

Add up all the futures and we are overwhelmed; humanity is overwhelmed. There is a way through. Probably surprising. Will we surprise? This is the story in a nutshell: humanity’s life story. :- Doug.

Write a short story that will have significant meaning for people 300 years from now. :- Doug.

If people want to work, if they will have to repeatedly reinvent themselves, and if Betty Friedan is right that women have been reinventing themselves all their lives, does that portend that women will, in the centuries to come, be … Continue reading →

Tell us the life story of one of your 300-year grandchild elders. :- Doug.

You are invited to come live in the futures. :- Doug.

Make choices bigger than to get you through the day. You will have choices. Choose consequential. :- Doug.

Humanicity seems to be about choosing. If our choices are large—life-shattering—we live. If inconsequential, we bore ourselves, meaning is lost. So a useless class, all needs met, has no choices, no meaning, no reason to live. Don’t choose well, choose … Continue reading →

As we reflect we posit meanings of ourselves, adding just a shard for others to propose their directions. :- Doug.

As we hunger for insight we conspire with our reader three centuries on. :- Doug.

Humanity is an outgrowth of humanicity. We are unlikely to improve the core humanicity; we have a chance to improve humanity. The chance might be in utilizing inter-neural nets and dreams: converse. :- Doug.

The idea of a useless class and machines taking over leaves us cold. What is this “cold?” It is a clue to humanicity. :- Doug.

What value is there in what people 300 years ago knew? Instead, is there more value in what they felt? Is the most in what they dreamed? Can we even tap in? Can we become intelligent about intelligence, about what … Continue reading →