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If we could get assistance reading, say picking out the “meat” from several articles on a subject of importance, could that advance our thinking? Is there value in seeing how the writers got there? Could we get assistance with that too? Is speed and short the only criteria? Could we get assistance with that too?

:- Doug.

If the curve keeps bending, could it turn backwards? Or at least into a spiral?

:- Doug.

Memory gets in the way of thinking in two ways. Something we once thought impedes current thinking. So we won’t forget, we try to hang on to something we once thought.

:- Doug.

Can consciousness survive a singularity? Several?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1906

First be human.

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In the mid-term, the rate of adoption will moderate the worries over artificial general intelligence taking over our work and our world. Long-term, we might be overtaken in all our abilities. Are we simply abilities?

:- Doug.

Things can happen because we have a willingness for them to happen.

:- Doug.

Increasing taxes might make sense to many people if we could get our needs and wants filled with cheap good, that is, if money meant less.

:- Doug.

Does the perception of the need for far sight change? How do we respond to perception changes?

:- Doug.

How do elders develop and own the standards and frameworks to provide far-sight as new technologies are implemented?

:- Doug.

How do we engage elders in 300 years? 100 years? This afternoon?

:- Doug.

Do grandchildren matter to you? Why?

:- Doug.

Why do you want to improve the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

How do we engage the interim elders? Or our peers? Ought we?

:- Doug.

What’s true? Ask yourself. Extend yourself. Write it.

:- Doug.

Where we are today is just the interim stage of where we’re headed.

:- Doug.

We are at work on unforeseeable futures.

:- Doug.

We work in the caring industry.

:- Doug.

Technology is generated by a human need to be filled, and the human desire to create.

:- Doug.

When families are turned upside down to nurse their elders, and especially by the cost crisis it brings, that’s when we get to work.

:- Doug.

When the government is irresponsible, business has stepped up. That’s the leading edge of what we have been seeing the last months. Retailers no longer selling automatic weapons, others banning weapons being brought into stores. Some stopping the sale of dangerous vaping products. Maybe for some it is a marketing ploy. Maybe some are taking responsibility for our society. But they are reading the public and maybe even what’s right, better than political “leaders.”

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1905

Today I feel on the cusp of something new. We do not fear age so much as society’s fearful picture of age. And that perhaps stems from too little factual knowledge of what aging comprises.

I suspect that far fewer people are debilitated in old age than we think, and that far fewer of those who are debilitated would be but for cultural beliefs.

So we should be living engaged, stirring the pot, rolled into the mix, risking life for life.

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We’re not seeking agreement nor deference, rather diversity, innovation, and novelty: in other words, seed and fertilizer.

:- Doug.