Category Archives: Eldering

Questions and the stories that generate them are the dematerializing of the core of humanity. Just like our machines have steadily become smaller and operate more on intelligence than on brawn. In other words, these are the software and algorithms … Continue reading →

What draws us to this inquiry? :- Doug.

Can we ask more complex interwoven questions, questions which can have no answers? :- Doug.

We have been scanning futures and holding them up as mirrors of who we are. We ask, who might we be? :- Doug.

How can we work for the generations? What is our message for them? :- Doug.

What are the assumptions beneath these questions? :- Doug.

Our task in this course, perhaps in this life, is to ask compelling questions. So is this meeting asking the most compelling question? :- Doug.

What can we do to help the generations? What story, what message will matter? Might matter? Will travel? Energize? :- Doug.

Wherever we are is midpoint on the journey. :- Doug.

If yes/not. Maybe we can converse with future generations, maybe not. Either way—if yes/not—how might we improve the species? If yes/not, do we try? :- Doug.

First we saw the beautiful mountain. Then we heard the echo. Then we went there. First travel pictures, second telephone, then we went there. Now we imagine “the” future. Is it likely we’ll speak with our generations before we travel? … Continue reading →

If cost per use (of a shared item, say) drops near zero, would there be a higher perceived value in higher cost (such as effort)? Should we ask our listeners their efforts to hear and think on our stories? Even … Continue reading →

To engage our far-sight, let’s look to technology trends, tell scenarios. As a next step beneath those, look over human patterns and directions, things like ephemeralization and etherealization. :- Doug.

You are invited to an impossible task—bending the arc of humanity. :- Doug.

If things are becoming more massively interlinked, what would you want next after interlinking? :- Doug.

Where can we leave traces and crumbs? :- Doug.