Category Archives: Eldering
Nursing home robots?
What tasks in a nursing home could be taken over by algorithms and robots? :- Doug.
Why care human?
What can it mean to be human? Why do we care? :- Doug.
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Centuries puzzles
What are the questions to puzzle us—for centuries? :- Doug.
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Would you want to meet these?
Will the 11th generation be people you’d want to meet? What are you doing about it? :- Doug.
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I asked my 8-year old grandson
This weekend I asked my 8 year old grandson about possible futures. He envisioned robots in the grocery doing the check out. You may have seen exo-skeleton devices, heard about nanobots to course our veins da Vinci repairing us from … Continue reading
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Begin with personal stories
We begin with our personal stories, our family stories, the story of our species. We move to asking about the alternative futures of humanity. Then we dare to ask might we, ought we, improve humanity itself. :- Doug.
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300 patience
Thinking 300 years encourages rewards engages explores examines —patience :- Doug.
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Disinterested love technology
We might create a technology of love: total disinterested looking out for the good of other persons. :- Doug.
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Into futures some little ways
Into futures with the generations some little ways :- Doug.
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Futures stories in conversations
Start by telling some futures as stories in conversations with grandchildren. See what I can weave together to see what I know and what I need to study. What kind of futures would you want? Would you want to travel … Continue reading
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Multiples of paths and futures
It is good there be multiple paths to the future because there are multiple futures. :- Doug.
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Look beyond where you can see
To have a purpose is to look beyond where you can see. Beyond the goal, even beyond any ends. This is something an algorithm cannot do. :- Doug.
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Think ephemerally
It is our advantage, or could be, when we most like to think ephemerally, ethereally, large picture. :- Doug.
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Blurry memory is good
It might be important to human learning that our memory be blurry. If we remembered everything like a computer disk does, maybe irrelevant or less than relevant memories would get in our way. Maybe we learn as irrelevant becomes less … Continue reading
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The day the algorithms took over your life
Write a story about the day you realize the algorithms took over your life. :- Doug.
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Think together about uncounted futures
Whom do you know—any place in the world—to help us think together about uncounted futures? It is more than one or a few of us can fathom: many of us together have a chance. Many of the few of us … Continue reading
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I only had a normal life
I only had a normal life Even though I sigh Important it is to know I lived I was awake :- Doug.
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