Visionary Projects for Building a Prosperous Future
I call it my Maslow’s Pyramid of Life Goals.
favorites I’ve been following on the side since 2017
want to contribute in more capacity in the future
Climate Crisis: Avoiding the Worst Case Scenarios
Exciting Developments
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and ITER
Quaise: Drill super deep geothermal wells with fusion plasma tech (transition oil industry work force and existing power station grid infrastructure to geothermal with a few wells drilled in 6 months)
Earthships: Off-grid sustainable green buildings made from recycled resources
Starting a High School in China: Reflection Essays
StarDAS: Reference-Rich Decentralized Accreditation System, for students to bootstrap learning communities by learning through teaching and certifying each other’s knowledge.
Explorer’s Toolkit: a map of visual thinking sketches outlining how learning data can be used as a self-reflective/assessment tool for Learners.
Project OK: inspiring student subversive activity through an essay manifesto to change the tradition-ifying forces influencing a school’s maker/project-based culture.
Personal Data: Your Data for You
education and collection/visualization of personal data in control by the person to whom it belongs for the benefit of furthering their own self-awareness:
Holochain: is a framework for building fully distributed peer-2-peer applications, like a decentralized Ruby on Rails (a mere stepping stone piece of the Ceptr puzzle.
HOPE: Hackers On Planet Earth, a great conference of like-minded hackers as yourself
Connected Northeast Ohio (CNEO): a Community-owned Mesh Network in Cleveland
Personal Data Hackers
WeChat Contained
Stream-graphing Messaging History
Deep Democracy: Rethinking Governance in the Digital Age
Exciting Developments
CEPTR: a massive undertaking to base our governance systems on digital infrastructure (checkout their white papers and blog articles)
Pol.is, a FOSS tool optimizing for political consensus rather than polarization for profit.
Singapore coding law tools
Taiwan
some really interesting things going on in Taiwan with respect to digital democracy since the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014
Audrey Tang, one of the driving forces behind these projects, she’s an incredible inspiring figure who supported IT for the Sunflower Movement and then became Taiwan’s Digital Minister.
Arthur Brock: co-founder of Holochain and technical visionary for CEPTR
Cory Doctorow: with EFF is a keynote speaker each HOPE conference and he wrote this persuasive essay for interoperability between software applications to increase privacy without monopoly.
Mitch Altman: co-founder and core organizer, grandfather of hackerspace movement around the world, and a dear friend.
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