futurism

  • Pursuing Sustainability

    Adaptation is a messy business. Failure is a large part of the process. For step we make forward there are many neutral and negative steps to be endured and learned from. At the societal scale, such as with population size,… Continue reading

  • Trusting The Creativity of Others

    Everyone has a unique perspective of the world we live in, as well as themselves in this world. Our perspective guides how we build the behavior structures of our life. However, having our own perspective does not mean that it… Continue reading

  • Thoughts On Digital Currencies

    There is no tool we can create that cannot also be used as a weapon. Currency is a tool we created. Heretofore our monetary system has been based on a physical currency, which has been increasingly forced to transition to… Continue reading

  • Technology’s Religion

    If I were king, I would have at least one hour a year where everyone in the nation would unplug their routers and computers, and turn off their phones. All at the same time. It would be for security at… Continue reading

  • Technology and Behavior Ecosystems

    Over the past one hundred years we have built our society and culture around the automobile. Not only the automobile, but the gasoline powered automobile. Every aspect of our society and culture is impacted by this. Electric cars are different… Continue reading

    Technology and Behavior Ecosystems
  • The No Risk Illusion

    All tools can be used as weapons. Currencies are tools used by people to interact confidently with others they do not know or trust. If we ourselves do not have direct control over a currency and how it is managed,… Continue reading