Computer science rule #1: Code abstracts all things.
For those not familiar with 'quantum computing', it is the expansion of classical computing using quantum theory. Classical computers are the only computers the vast majority of humanity is familiar with. Below quantum's epic complexities is a simple truth: classical computers work with bits (1s and 0s), while quantum computers work with qubits. A qubit can be imagined as a globe, where the north pole is 0 and the south pole is 1 (or vice versa). Its state can be any position on or potentially in that sphere.
As it stands today, modeling qubits with bits is considered mathematically hard. Like any interesting physical phenomenon, quantum systems are explosive. Simulating a system of interacting qubits with a system of interacting bits currently results in impractical slowdown. Computers are logical, conservative machines and don't much fancy infinite possibilities (or so we've assumed). Nonetheless, a classical computer can crunch quantum math, and therefore there is no known physical law withholding off-the-shelf technology from going quantum.
A bit can be '0'. A bit can be '1'. A qubit can be a mixture of that duality so let's represent it with a '2'. With the flexibility offered by a third, superposition bit, can we model quantum systems efficiently? We can already model them inefficiently.
Regardless, the quantum information scientists concerned with these matters firmly hold the near-unanimous position that your phone or laptop are not welcome at the quantum party. Instead, they tell us we have to wait anywhere between a decade and 50 years for scalable quantum computers that 'authentically' model quantum systems at the physical level - with cool things like trapped ions.
Should humans figure out how to get bits to speak qubit, the benefits are... interesting: True shared data privacy that doesn't rely on a pickable lock for protection is one thing we'll get. Or how about improved hardware energy efficiency - literally using fewer electrons to run calculations. "Doing more with less" comes to mind.
Write your local Qscientist to reconsider the lowly classical computer as a candidate for quantum status today!
*Research conducted on behalf of noospheer ~ open source, distributed data integration and collaboration software.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Web v Cloud
There is plenty of buzz about the cloud. Apple's latest to hit the market is the iCloud. This allows users to access 5gb of media from any of their Apple devices. A step in the right direction, surely, but is it the cloud - or is just access to a chunk of data over the web? iCloud would be a little cloudier if it, say, enabled users to share their data with other users in the cloud. This way people would be members of a communal data library, fully accessible to all connected devices... Wouldn’t that be so scary to ‘intellectual property’ owners.
If the cloud is the paradigm superceding the web then it needs to be greater than simply a high-speed + big-storage Internet.
A 'metaweb' is what comes to mind. If the standard unit of the web is the website, then a cloudsite would be one which allows comprehensive access to the entirety of the Internet. Just as the WWW enabled the interlinking of data/services, the cloud could enable the integration of data/services.
As the web has evolved over the last couple decades, the world’s intranets have plugged in. Hidden behind the ‘website layer’ are the world’s databases, on the network, yet difficult to access. These databases contain a wealth of structured data on the entire sphere of knowledge/activity on (and off) the planet.
The New Internet, Web 3.0, The Cloud - whatever you’d like to call it - will be an open and integrated data/service superset. It will make the global nature of the Internet seem as if its locally stored on your little device.
If the cloud is the paradigm superceding the web then it needs to be greater than simply a high-speed + big-storage Internet.
A 'metaweb' is what comes to mind. If the standard unit of the web is the website, then a cloudsite would be one which allows comprehensive access to the entirety of the Internet. Just as the WWW enabled the interlinking of data/services, the cloud could enable the integration of data/services.
As the web has evolved over the last couple decades, the world’s intranets have plugged in. Hidden behind the ‘website layer’ are the world’s databases, on the network, yet difficult to access. These databases contain a wealth of structured data on the entire sphere of knowledge/activity on (and off) the planet.
The New Internet, Web 3.0, The Cloud - whatever you’d like to call it - will be an open and integrated data/service superset. It will make the global nature of the Internet seem as if its locally stored on your little device.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Money makes the world go round
But for how much longer? (For this article you'll have to really use your imagination).
Please watch this 3 minute video as a prelude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvLpYYxXbto
At first glance, a moneyless world is a very hard one to imagine. The concept of money is so drilled into our very being from such a young age that it has become the driving force of human life. Money is the collective illusion that everyone from the homeless man on the street corner to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies recognize as being a total farce. We all know that money doesn't actually have any intrinsic value and that it can only purchase things of value based on an illusory agreement society has made with itself.
In order to chart a prediction for where the future of money lies, we must look at its history. The first form of economy was barter: I'll give you three chickens, you give me a goat. Barter allowed for the agreed upon trade of wealth from one to another. Once it was recognized that barter was an inefficient basis for economic activity in came precious metals; primarily gold. These metals represented value. Since the quantity of a given metal is finite, economies could only grow if they were to amass more of the metal. This played a lead role in a number of resource wars, most famously the European conquest of the rest of the world.
Since metals were cumbersome and impractical, cash came to represent gold. With this change, a piece of paper representing an amount of gold in a bank somewhere would be used to make purchases. Then paper money came to only represent itself, followed by digitized money representing paper money, which will also soon only represent itself. Thus we have gone from a goat representing a goat, to gold representing a goat, to paper representing a goat, to ones and zeros in a hard drive representing a goat.
As the global economy's primary reserve currency, the American dollar is held in large quantities by all major governments and institutions. As such, the value of the US dollar sets the international standard against which the values of all other currencies are decided. So, all monies are based on the US dollar, but what is the US dollar based on? Nothing, at least directly. Starting in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve (which is about as Federal as Federal Express) and ending with Nixon's dissolution of the gold standard, bankers realized that by disconnecting the value of the dollar from anything of intrinsic value, the economy would explode.
The 20th century was one of unprecedented economic growth. Without the hindrance of the dollar having to be backed by gold, the Federal Reserve could simply print new money out of 'thin air' to stimulate growth. Of course, as the quantity of dollars in circulation rises, the value of the dollar decreases. As, the value decreases, prices go up - basic inflation. Not a seemingly bad system you might think; who cares if the dollar decreases in value, everything else adjusts accordingly, its worked for nearly 100 years.
But here's the key: there is interest to be paid on every new dollar. Just like a bank wouldn't give you a loan if it wasn't going to be paid interest, so to do the American people pay interest on the money they use. Of course, since the Federal Reserve has a monopoly on the money supply, they print off more money to be used to pay off the debt, which in turn creates more debt. Welcome to the debt-based economy. As Henry Ford once said, "it is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Today, with a 70% consumption-based and only 30% production-based economy, the United States has gone from the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor nation. With $10 trillion in public debt, $99 trillion in future obligations, and a domestic oil supply that long since peaked in the 1970s, the future is not bright for the current system. Debt cannot be sustained perpetually, and there comes a time when bankruptcy must be declared. As the dollar continues to be inflated non sustainably, prices rise, wages remain the same, the economy begins to stagnate, bankruptcies are declared, more money is printed off to bail out banks, banks reclaim property and possessions, businesses continue to close, more money is added into the system to stem foreclosure, more inflation, more stagnation, and eventually, as many top economists are predicting: collapse. Modern day America has fallen prey to a modernized version of what the revolutionaries of independence fought against, and what the founders sternly warned of.
A collapse of the American economy would mean the end of the global economy - at least as we know it. Yet as we see our current paradigm struggle to keep afloat (resource wars in the Middle East, endless media distraction and fear-mongering, etc.) we do see the future begin to unfold. The beginnings of the next form of human economy are emerging on the internet. So far, the Wikinomic model of a decentralized, collaboration-based economy has proven incredibly succesful with the spread of information and entertainment. By having direct access to an endless and ever-growing ocean of information and ideas, we are beginning to collectively wake up to the possibility that we can live in a truly free society, based on the recognition that giving is always better than taking and that we are all in this together.
The final remnant of our taking-based economy is oil. As it peaks and declines we will finally be released from the slimey grip it has on us and our planet. Truly next-generation technologies such as cold fusion and zero-point either already exist or are being extensively researched. We now have the knowledge, the technology, and perhaps soon the wisdom to move towards an inclusive, collaborative economy with a decentralized power structure in balance with ourselves and nature.
Money is the general basis for the shitty situation we're currently in: war, crime, environmental degradation, etc. As the global economy begins to spiral there will no doubt be some desperate attempts at trying to revive it, and these may work temporarily, but its self-destructive nature is inherent in its design.
From barter to precious metals to paper money to digitized money to collaboration, economy is coming full circle, returning to a sustainable position in balance with itself.
I have no idea what a post-money economy would look like, but its fun to entertain the possibility.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.
-Thomas Jefferson
Please watch this 3 minute video as a prelude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvLpYYxXbto
At first glance, a moneyless world is a very hard one to imagine. The concept of money is so drilled into our very being from such a young age that it has become the driving force of human life. Money is the collective illusion that everyone from the homeless man on the street corner to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies recognize as being a total farce. We all know that money doesn't actually have any intrinsic value and that it can only purchase things of value based on an illusory agreement society has made with itself.
In order to chart a prediction for where the future of money lies, we must look at its history. The first form of economy was barter: I'll give you three chickens, you give me a goat. Barter allowed for the agreed upon trade of wealth from one to another. Once it was recognized that barter was an inefficient basis for economic activity in came precious metals; primarily gold. These metals represented value. Since the quantity of a given metal is finite, economies could only grow if they were to amass more of the metal. This played a lead role in a number of resource wars, most famously the European conquest of the rest of the world.
Since metals were cumbersome and impractical, cash came to represent gold. With this change, a piece of paper representing an amount of gold in a bank somewhere would be used to make purchases. Then paper money came to only represent itself, followed by digitized money representing paper money, which will also soon only represent itself. Thus we have gone from a goat representing a goat, to gold representing a goat, to paper representing a goat, to ones and zeros in a hard drive representing a goat.
As the global economy's primary reserve currency, the American dollar is held in large quantities by all major governments and institutions. As such, the value of the US dollar sets the international standard against which the values of all other currencies are decided. So, all monies are based on the US dollar, but what is the US dollar based on? Nothing, at least directly. Starting in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve (which is about as Federal as Federal Express) and ending with Nixon's dissolution of the gold standard, bankers realized that by disconnecting the value of the dollar from anything of intrinsic value, the economy would explode.
The 20th century was one of unprecedented economic growth. Without the hindrance of the dollar having to be backed by gold, the Federal Reserve could simply print new money out of 'thin air' to stimulate growth. Of course, as the quantity of dollars in circulation rises, the value of the dollar decreases. As, the value decreases, prices go up - basic inflation. Not a seemingly bad system you might think; who cares if the dollar decreases in value, everything else adjusts accordingly, its worked for nearly 100 years.
But here's the key: there is interest to be paid on every new dollar. Just like a bank wouldn't give you a loan if it wasn't going to be paid interest, so to do the American people pay interest on the money they use. Of course, since the Federal Reserve has a monopoly on the money supply, they print off more money to be used to pay off the debt, which in turn creates more debt. Welcome to the debt-based economy. As Henry Ford once said, "it is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Today, with a 70% consumption-based and only 30% production-based economy, the United States has gone from the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor nation. With $10 trillion in public debt, $99 trillion in future obligations, and a domestic oil supply that long since peaked in the 1970s, the future is not bright for the current system. Debt cannot be sustained perpetually, and there comes a time when bankruptcy must be declared. As the dollar continues to be inflated non sustainably, prices rise, wages remain the same, the economy begins to stagnate, bankruptcies are declared, more money is printed off to bail out banks, banks reclaim property and possessions, businesses continue to close, more money is added into the system to stem foreclosure, more inflation, more stagnation, and eventually, as many top economists are predicting: collapse. Modern day America has fallen prey to a modernized version of what the revolutionaries of independence fought against, and what the founders sternly warned of.
A collapse of the American economy would mean the end of the global economy - at least as we know it. Yet as we see our current paradigm struggle to keep afloat (resource wars in the Middle East, endless media distraction and fear-mongering, etc.) we do see the future begin to unfold. The beginnings of the next form of human economy are emerging on the internet. So far, the Wikinomic model of a decentralized, collaboration-based economy has proven incredibly succesful with the spread of information and entertainment. By having direct access to an endless and ever-growing ocean of information and ideas, we are beginning to collectively wake up to the possibility that we can live in a truly free society, based on the recognition that giving is always better than taking and that we are all in this together.
The final remnant of our taking-based economy is oil. As it peaks and declines we will finally be released from the slimey grip it has on us and our planet. Truly next-generation technologies such as cold fusion and zero-point either already exist or are being extensively researched. We now have the knowledge, the technology, and perhaps soon the wisdom to move towards an inclusive, collaborative economy with a decentralized power structure in balance with ourselves and nature.
Money is the general basis for the shitty situation we're currently in: war, crime, environmental degradation, etc. As the global economy begins to spiral there will no doubt be some desperate attempts at trying to revive it, and these may work temporarily, but its self-destructive nature is inherent in its design.
From barter to precious metals to paper money to digitized money to collaboration, economy is coming full circle, returning to a sustainable position in balance with itself.
I have no idea what a post-money economy would look like, but its fun to entertain the possibility.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.
-Thomas Jefferson
Friday, August 29, 2008
The Situation
I believe the world as we know it is about to undergo some intense changes. Here's the basic breakdown:
Politically
Iran is flanked on both sides, war games are being carried out in the gulf, the US is setting up a missile defense system in Poland, Russia is threatening Poland with nuclear attack, Georgia continues to be a pawn in the new Cold War, and China has performed its Olympic opening act on the world stage. Tensions are high as the rhetoric continues to spew.
Economically
The US dollar continues to weaken amid limitless government spending. First the surplus was depleted, then treasury bonds were sold off to foreign nations, and now the money is just being printed out of thin air. This has created an unprecedented level of inflation in the dollar. This weakened dollar has raised the price of oil enormously and industry is passing on its costs onto consumers, as a result prices on just about everything are up. This in turn creates a stagnation in the economy as people are less able to afford luxuries, consumer spending drops which in turn leads to businesses closing shop, which leads to higher unemployment, which leads to less spending... The vicious cycle. People continue to lose their homes as they default on their mortgages and banks default on their credit. All the while the dollar continues to be undermined by further inflation, and the US national debt is at $10 trillion with $99 trillion in future obligations to the soon to retire baby boomer generation.
Lawrence Summers (MIT and Harvard educated, Former Chief Economist for the World Bank, Former US Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard University): "...we are facing the most serious combination of macroeconomic and financial stresses that the U.S. has faced in a generation–and possibly, much longer than that. It's a grave mistake to believe in the self-equilibrating properties of economies in the face of large shocks. Markets balance fear and greed. And when fear takes over, the capacity for self-stabilization is not one that can be relied upon."
Richard W. Fisher (President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank) estimated the obligations of the US to be $99.2 trillion. Fisher stated: In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of untethered government debt . I choose the words—"frightful storm"—deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are now working so hard to correct.
The Election
The great illusion is still strong. People actually believe that Obama and his Change Train will restore order so we can continue to live in our bubble. When we look past the rhetoric and examine Obama's policies there isn't much difference between him and McCain. He does not take an anti-war stance, supports interventionist policies, has no real measures to fix the economic situation at its source (the Federal Reserve), and has nothing to offer other than false hope (which I guess is better than no hope at all). Don't get me wrong, Obama represents an incredible step forward in the breakdown of racial segregation. My beef is that he talks the talk but certainly doesn't walk the walk when it comes to real 'change we can believe in'. All style no substance.
The democrats are quite simply the ying to the republican yang. Two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same dragon. Nothing in this election is about serving the interests of the American people, its about a power struggle between two corrupt factions fighting for the rule of a fledgling empire. Of course, it's bad to generalize but its quite obvious that when you see anyone leave the party line (Ron Paul for the Republicans, Dennis Kucinich for the Democrats), the media almost completely ignores their cries for a return to constitutional government as corporate influence becomes far more powerful than serving the public good.
Meanwhile the internet becomes a more and more relevant source of news as the corporate world desperately grasps at straws by trying to pull stunts like trying to turn the internet into merely a better version of TV (Net Neutrality). And let's see Fox News try to put a positive spin on McCain picking a self-proclaimed hockey mom to be the Vice President of the most powerful nation on the planet. Mainstream "news" has officially become more fiction-fantasy than normal television.
Environmentally
We are currently in the midst of a mass extinction event dubbed the 'Holocene extinction event'. On average, a mass extinction hits the planet about once every 100 million years. Currently we are losing roughly 27,000 species every year from habitat loss. In contrast, the fossil record shows an average loss of 10 to 100 species per year in the past. The early warning signs of serious ecosystem breakdown are already rearing their ugly heads, when do we pass the point of no return?
Science and Spirituality
As science delves deeper into the pursuit of 'objective truth' its beginning to discover that the universe may be a more subjective place than we thought. The cold, calculated view of the reality in which we're merely clumps of atoms bouncing around aimlessly is giving way to a more meaningful and human picture of who we are and where we come from. Quantum mechanics has made astounding discoveries into how our observations and actions actually alter the space around us.
A worldview is emerging in which all things are interrelated and at the core of this is the reconciliation between the facts of science and the deep inner search for a sense of meaning and purpose. Fields such as Gaia and systems theory are redefining our concept of a living organism: are we only our bodies, or are we do we stretch beyond the confines of our skin? So-called 'integral thinkers' are building a framework in which all truths and perspectives are considered to create a more complete understanding of the universe.
"The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed." -Terence McKenna
Technology
Nothing defines the beginning of the 21st century more than the influence technology has on us. Back to the Future predicted that the coolest thing in 2015 would be flying cars. For starters, in 2008 we have phones that give us a direct connection to the sum total of all human knowledge. The internet doubles in power every two years as every facet of interaction becomes digitized right down to our social lives (Facebook). The stereotypical computer user went from acne-covered nerd to trendsetter.
We organize our lives digitally, get our information digitally, connect socially digitally, dance to digital music, get entertained by digital movies, and technology continues to build upon itself exponentially. The future is shaping up to be nothing short of science fiction fantasy.
Paradigm Shift
Fueled by the strongly emerging use of the internet as a tool for the spreading of unconventional wisdom (and unconventional bullshit), great change seems to be on the horizon. Dissent aimed at the entire establishment is growing exponentially; from our political and financial institutions to corporate dissemination of information, ethnocentrism, and the collective disregard for our planet. As our unsustainable model for how to live on earth seems to be dying, the growing number of people who see that the shit is about to hit the fan have come up with all sorts of wacky alternatives to the current paradigm, attempting to ease the shock of transition into the next stage of the human story.
If you're bored, don't be. These are exciting times. Crisis may be upon us, but crises allow unprecedented opportunity for change. The world isn't coming to an end, it's just changing as it always has and always will.
I'll try to make this blog an entertaining and informative window to the world as I see it.
Politically
Iran is flanked on both sides, war games are being carried out in the gulf, the US is setting up a missile defense system in Poland, Russia is threatening Poland with nuclear attack, Georgia continues to be a pawn in the new Cold War, and China has performed its Olympic opening act on the world stage. Tensions are high as the rhetoric continues to spew.
Economically
The US dollar continues to weaken amid limitless government spending. First the surplus was depleted, then treasury bonds were sold off to foreign nations, and now the money is just being printed out of thin air. This has created an unprecedented level of inflation in the dollar. This weakened dollar has raised the price of oil enormously and industry is passing on its costs onto consumers, as a result prices on just about everything are up. This in turn creates a stagnation in the economy as people are less able to afford luxuries, consumer spending drops which in turn leads to businesses closing shop, which leads to higher unemployment, which leads to less spending... The vicious cycle. People continue to lose their homes as they default on their mortgages and banks default on their credit. All the while the dollar continues to be undermined by further inflation, and the US national debt is at $10 trillion with $99 trillion in future obligations to the soon to retire baby boomer generation.
Lawrence Summers (MIT and Harvard educated, Former Chief Economist for the World Bank, Former US Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard University): "...we are facing the most serious combination of macroeconomic and financial stresses that the U.S. has faced in a generation–and possibly, much longer than that. It's a grave mistake to believe in the self-equilibrating properties of economies in the face of large shocks. Markets balance fear and greed. And when fear takes over, the capacity for self-stabilization is not one that can be relied upon."
Richard W. Fisher (President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank) estimated the obligations of the US to be $99.2 trillion. Fisher stated: In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of untethered government debt . I choose the words—"frightful storm"—deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are now working so hard to correct.
The Election
The great illusion is still strong. People actually believe that Obama and his Change Train will restore order so we can continue to live in our bubble. When we look past the rhetoric and examine Obama's policies there isn't much difference between him and McCain. He does not take an anti-war stance, supports interventionist policies, has no real measures to fix the economic situation at its source (the Federal Reserve), and has nothing to offer other than false hope (which I guess is better than no hope at all). Don't get me wrong, Obama represents an incredible step forward in the breakdown of racial segregation. My beef is that he talks the talk but certainly doesn't walk the walk when it comes to real 'change we can believe in'. All style no substance.
The democrats are quite simply the ying to the republican yang. Two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same dragon. Nothing in this election is about serving the interests of the American people, its about a power struggle between two corrupt factions fighting for the rule of a fledgling empire. Of course, it's bad to generalize but its quite obvious that when you see anyone leave the party line (Ron Paul for the Republicans, Dennis Kucinich for the Democrats), the media almost completely ignores their cries for a return to constitutional government as corporate influence becomes far more powerful than serving the public good.
Meanwhile the internet becomes a more and more relevant source of news as the corporate world desperately grasps at straws by trying to pull stunts like trying to turn the internet into merely a better version of TV (Net Neutrality). And let's see Fox News try to put a positive spin on McCain picking a self-proclaimed hockey mom to be the Vice President of the most powerful nation on the planet. Mainstream "news" has officially become more fiction-fantasy than normal television.
Environmentally
We are currently in the midst of a mass extinction event dubbed the 'Holocene extinction event'. On average, a mass extinction hits the planet about once every 100 million years. Currently we are losing roughly 27,000 species every year from habitat loss. In contrast, the fossil record shows an average loss of 10 to 100 species per year in the past. The early warning signs of serious ecosystem breakdown are already rearing their ugly heads, when do we pass the point of no return?
Science and Spirituality
As science delves deeper into the pursuit of 'objective truth' its beginning to discover that the universe may be a more subjective place than we thought. The cold, calculated view of the reality in which we're merely clumps of atoms bouncing around aimlessly is giving way to a more meaningful and human picture of who we are and where we come from. Quantum mechanics has made astounding discoveries into how our observations and actions actually alter the space around us.
A worldview is emerging in which all things are interrelated and at the core of this is the reconciliation between the facts of science and the deep inner search for a sense of meaning and purpose. Fields such as Gaia and systems theory are redefining our concept of a living organism: are we only our bodies, or are we do we stretch beyond the confines of our skin? So-called 'integral thinkers' are building a framework in which all truths and perspectives are considered to create a more complete understanding of the universe.
"The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed." -Terence McKenna
Technology
Nothing defines the beginning of the 21st century more than the influence technology has on us. Back to the Future predicted that the coolest thing in 2015 would be flying cars. For starters, in 2008 we have phones that give us a direct connection to the sum total of all human knowledge. The internet doubles in power every two years as every facet of interaction becomes digitized right down to our social lives (Facebook). The stereotypical computer user went from acne-covered nerd to trendsetter.
We organize our lives digitally, get our information digitally, connect socially digitally, dance to digital music, get entertained by digital movies, and technology continues to build upon itself exponentially. The future is shaping up to be nothing short of science fiction fantasy.
Paradigm Shift
Fueled by the strongly emerging use of the internet as a tool for the spreading of unconventional wisdom (and unconventional bullshit), great change seems to be on the horizon. Dissent aimed at the entire establishment is growing exponentially; from our political and financial institutions to corporate dissemination of information, ethnocentrism, and the collective disregard for our planet. As our unsustainable model for how to live on earth seems to be dying, the growing number of people who see that the shit is about to hit the fan have come up with all sorts of wacky alternatives to the current paradigm, attempting to ease the shock of transition into the next stage of the human story.
If you're bored, don't be. These are exciting times. Crisis may be upon us, but crises allow unprecedented opportunity for change. The world isn't coming to an end, it's just changing as it always has and always will.
I'll try to make this blog an entertaining and informative window to the world as I see it.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)