Category Archives: Eldering

Stages of response to new technologies: Gee whiz; Oh my; Take care. Taking care early is the role of far-sight. :- Doug.

“It enlarged her capacity for giving.” What will enlarge humanity’s capacity for giving? :- Doug.

If we are the intelligence of the known universe, what with loud engines on Saturday night, drugs, and all stupidity, how do we bring intelligence to intelligence? :- Doug.

Humanicity is about, we are about, the deepest art, most sublime music, most beautiful mathematics. :- Doug.

We do not recognize technology as separate any more: we think nothing of glasses and contact lenses, but those are not organic, nor a part of us. We have brought titanium hips and knees inside our bodies and consider them … Continue reading →

Digital information does not last even short. Living beings last longer, and we are always changing, morphing our memories with new events and imaginations. Life has stored our most basic (and profound?) knowledge in genes, DNA, and such. Just what … Continue reading →

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.