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The next generations are headed to be more interwoven than our rugged individualist generations.

:- Doug.

How can we become more sensitive to future generations?

:- Doug.

It’s the relationships, not the numbers alone, that create.

:- Doug.

Get your message into the cloud. It’s beginning to look like whatever is there might be there for a long time.

:- Doug.

Futures don’t often come upon us faster than some of us can handle.

:- Doug.

Aim to get within 25% at first; keep in mind that all projects take more of us than we projected.

:- Doug.

Our quest: seeking humanicity.

:- Doug.

A first person view screen puts you inside your speeding drone. Could we get inside Grandpa? Can we put enough of ourselves into an artifact our 11th generation grandchild could use to meet us?

:- Doug.

After dictation software comes think-ware.

:- Doug.

I want my grandchildren to be more whole, more complete human beings than I. I want them to see farther, to love more deeply and effectively. What do you want for yours?

:- Doug.

Recruit us for the quest.

:- Doug.

Use organic words, phrases, and metaphors
Be subtle while you surprise
The grandchildren

:- Doug.

Would good questions carry us to unplowed ground, to unfamiliar woods and streams? What would be their comfort level? Would they require us to think? Why is thinking any criterion?

:- Doug.

If we are to ask better questions, what is better? How will we recognize them?

:- Doug.

The messages for the generations we came up with in the course were largely one dimensional: they did not present a dilemma, two choices of equal power. Ought they? Should there be something that teases the reader/hearer to go either way? Should there be a question, a message, that does not presuppose a specific answer, where “Yes” and “No” move equally well toward a right direction? Do we want them to do what we want, or what they want? What do we want them to want, and how would we want them to choose?

:- Doug.

Create a story for your 11th generation granddaughter.

:- Doug.

Assume that the people in the 11th generation are more like us than unlike.

:- Doug.

We have been developing our farsight as we have gone along, increasing it, sharpening it, honing it, getting better pictures.

:- Doug.

Retirement may be a failure of imagination. As may be not laying down that work.

:- Doug.

We may never control the other end of the cord, yet our tug might be felt a good way along.

:- Doug.

Touch the cord far
along as you can
keep it taut
so they’ll know
you are here

:- Doug.

We’ve been unfolding our farsight.

:- Doug.

Just because it’s impossible is no reason to not attempt. Movement is movement, shift is shift.

:- Doug.