The extension we call the net, the grid, the Infobahn, is more than the sum of its parts, it may perchance lead to an actual organizing principle of reality itself. An organizing principle somewhat akin to an operating system, yet directed, and multidimensional, interactive and intelligent; (...)At this point our own minds will become the defining factor of who and what we are; inner and outer reality will coalesce into a greater whole. The infoverse of our closely coupled minds, and for this we need a home, I know I do.
The reason some of us are intuiting this future as strongly as you do is that so many of its pieces are currently in place. There actually is a new operating system for the world, and the far-reaching process of re-wiring our brain is already well under way. The questions who we are and who want to be are prominently on our minds; and since we supplanted natural selection with our own interventions we have ramped up the pace of evolution a thousand times. We no longer need to extrapolate the future because in essence we are already there, and, as you put it, looking for a home. But it's not just us who feel this urge to move one. More than ever, the world we live in needs the future we imagine in order to survive.
I'm planning to soon publish a series of posts, proposing some practical solutions for the world at large by optimizing certain redundant layers of civilization's haphazardly cobbled together evolutionary past. The goal is to formulate an actual plan that might radically clean up some of today's more pressing problems, while setting the stage for a "new organizing principle of reality itself." The series will be called "The Age of Optimization," and although it will tend somewhat towards "outer reality" I hope it'll contribute to SpaceCollective's overall goals and in its own practical way coincide with your much appreciated "mind habitat."
The reason some of us are intuiting this future as strongly as you do is that so many of its pieces are currently in place. There actually is a new operating system for the world, and the far-reaching process of re-wiring our brain is already well under way. The questions who we are and who want to be are prominently on our minds; and since we supplanted natural selection with our own interventions we have ramped up the pace of evolution a thousand times. We no longer need to extrapolate the future because in essence we are already there, and, as you put it, looking for a home. But it's not just us who feel this urge to move one. More than ever, the world we live in needs the future we imagine in order to survive.
I'm planning to soon publish a series of posts, proposing some practical solutions for the world at large by optimizing certain redundant layers of civilization's haphazardly cobbled together evolutionary past. The goal is to formulate an actual plan that might radically clean up some of today's more pressing problems, while setting the stage for a "new organizing principle of reality itself." The series will be called "The Age of Optimization," and although it will tend somewhat towards "outer reality" I hope it'll contribute to SpaceCollective's overall goals and in its own practical way coincide with your much appreciated "mind habitat."