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There is that word “still” again! As if holding on to the past skills is the key to better life.

:- Doug.

Look at all the writing about Why. Now to work on Who, What, and How. With whom do we converse, how, and especially what do we convey?

I have suggested the 11th generation of elders as Who. How is a mixture of our limits and our imaginations and is a matter of getting to it. What might be the biggest question.

:- Doug.

These insights overnight seem to lean toward important if not profound: Who are people and what is our arc? Can our limits propel us? Do our desires and aspirations travel time and generations? Dare we communicate? Dare we not? How selfish and lazy to not communicate!

:- Doug.

I need to give some thought to reaching people with different modes of perception: seeing, hearing, tasting, moving, touching, smelling, feeling, thinking. (These emerge for me as dimensions beyond height, width, depth, and time. Already, that totals 11 dimensions!)

One thing would be to encourage people to think and write in these dimensions so they can perhaps find a wider “aud”ience in the futures.

:- Doug.

We are collaborators on possibles. We are collaborators on futures. We are collaborators on humanicity.

:- Doug.

Who we are makes the things around us that we make. We cannot make anything that is not in us. Perhaps as well we cannot see anything that is not in us. Note well: there are universes in us. As the form expands the poet, so our limits us. If we recognize them.

:- Doug.

The search through the futures is all to ask the questions: What will people do? Who are we? Who might we be? Do we have a limit?

:- Doug.

I write in the margins of books: is this conversation with the author? With myself? With others who might pick up the book?

:- Doug.

Storms put nitrogen into the air: plants grow. Storms might be as necessary to humanity as storms to life.

:- Doug.

Some things about humanity may prove hard to change: the desire to help another; the desire to become intimate; the desires for beauty, truth, and goodness; the desire to desire: to dream, to explore, to grow.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1889

I only had a normal life
Even though I sigh
Important it is to know
I lived
I was awake

Please pass it on.

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The futures may sneak upon us. We will barely recognize what is happening. Then we will see what has been done to us, mainly in retrospect.

:- Doug.

What are our significata?

:- Doug.

One job will survive the downsizing of the labor force caused by robotics and algorithms: trainers. They will help people stay a step or two ahead of the continual loss of human work. We may need to “down train:” to do less specialized, more general work, even physical labor.

:- Doug.

Will the bots be able to dream the dreams? The dreams beyond space solar, hydrogen power, space elevators? Will they need us for our dreams? Or something akin to dreams?

:- Doug.

Splash!

:- Doug.

Emerges with us.

:- Doug.

How will you become smarter than AI?

:- Doug.

If we are smart, robots, AI, and algorithms will push us to become smarter. We will let them take over chopping wood and carrying water, and we will figure out which wood and which water. We will also have to stay one step ahead of them. We will have to decide what humanicity means.

:- Doug.

What tasks in a nursing home could be taken over by algorithms and robots?

:- Doug.

What can it mean to be human? Why do we care?

:- Doug.

What are the questions to puzzle us—for centuries?

:- Doug.

Will the 11th generation be people you’d want to meet? What are you doing about it?

:- Doug.