The Future We Deserve

Inspirations and Guidance[edit | edit source]

• Pieces should be short - 500 words is ideal, 800 max. Pieces will be hypertext objects, with links to more information on every page. Pick one thing and make a little jewel box that describes it. Remember you can do more than one piece.
• We will group pieces into patterns together. The brief is loose to see what is out there, what great wonders people have to show. Order and sense will be made in the sequencing, and possibly additional pieces used to frame sets of pieces.
• seven thousand einsteins is about the right length (500 words) and nicely illustrates one central idea, but it's more chatty than I would have written it for the book. (you can be as chatty as you like) @leashless
• Hexayurt Project in a Nutshell is too long and doesn't get down to the core fast enough. @leashless
• With enough eyes: On Criticism Gives a philosophy of criticism to help make this project far more than the sum of its parts. @gelada

Collaborators[edit | edit source]

See TheFWD submissions to see this section with the pieces. Formatting will be rough.

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• Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt Project, http://hexayurt.com/, @leashless
  • Put links to your ideas about what you're going to write about on the line below your name. Either link to a blog post or a google doc, or make a new Appropedia page with the prefix thefwd_ on it, like on the line below. Add {{TheFWD header}} to the top of your page.
  • TheFWD leashless the future of poverty - a condensation of http://web.archive.org/web/20160319141040/http://agit8.org.uk:80/?p=268
  • TheFWD leashless The Tiny Army - FINAL
  • TheFWD leashless Our Future and the Sun - FINAL
• Joe Simpson, http://movementdesign.org, http://twitter.com/JoeSimpson
  • TheFWD JoeSimpson - transport - STUB
• Thomas Bjelkeman, http://akvo.org, http://twitter.com/Bjelkeman
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - Seawater into food - FINAL (draft v1 Done)
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - A picture, a person, a time and a location - FINAL - (draft v1 Done)
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - Thinking the unthinkable. Asking what is not asked. - FINAL - (draft v1 Done) This may be suitable as an introduction to Vinay Gupta, which I could envisage would be a useful preface to the book.
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - Memes that kill - FINAL - (draft v1 Done>
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - Transparent governance - STUB
• Eleanor Saitta, http://sldrc.com, http://twitter.com/dymaxion
  • TheFWD dymaxion - FINAL -
• Alex Bowyer, http://human20.com:80/, http://twitter.com/alexbfree
  • TheFWD alexbfree - FINAL - intelligent agents
• Paul Graham Raven, http://futurismic.com/, http://twitter.com/PaulGrahamRaven
  • TheFWD PaulGrahamRaven - FINAL - Getting the future we deserve
• Edmund Harriss, http://maxwelldemon.com/edmund-harriss/, http://twitter.com/Gelada/
  • A note on criticism - http://web.archive.org/web/20201022003208/http://www.tilings.org.uk/WEE_on_criticism.pdf (process/working practices notes)
  • Challenging Education and the "Harry Potter Letter" - FINAL - (22/8/10 Version 4 Done)
  • The futures we deserve or why even bankers might have uses - FINAL - (14/9/10 Version 1)
• Paul B. Hartzog, http://twitter.com/paulbhartzog
  • TheFWD paulbhartzog - FINAL - on panarchy - STUB??
• Sam Rose http://web.archive.org/web/20120304112211/http://forwardfound.org/Us, http://twitter.com/SamRose
  • TheFWD SamRose - FINAL
• Richard C Adler http://web.archive.org/web/20120304112211/http://forwardfound.org/Us, http://twitter.com/RichardCAdler
  • TheFWD RichardCAdler - STUB
• Lucas Gonzalez http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com, LucasG at appropedia, @lucasgonzalez
  • TheFWD lucasgonzalez No island is an island - FINAL - Relative physical isolation gives some clues to standing on our feet while being part of the world. (draft v1 Done)
  • TheFWD lucasgonzalez My ideal panflu - FINAL - Pandemics happen and some are bad, so what do we do. (draft v1 Done)
  • TheFWD lucasgonzalez The onion and the satellite - FINAL- Health-care systems. (draft v1 Being done)
• Andy Broomfield http://twitter.com/andybroomfield
  • TheFWD andybroomfield - FINAL - The future of programming - I'm happy to call this done
  • TheFWD andybroomfield hacking society - FINAL - Hacking Society - Might need a few more amends, but deadlines...
• Allen Wentz http://allenwentz.bandcamp.com/, http://twitter.com/allenwentz
  • TheFWD allenwentz - FINAL
• Woody Evans http://woodyevans.wordpress.com/, http://twitter.com/woodyevans
  • TheFWD woodyevans - on values of knowledge - "Credibility and Calories" (draft v2 Done)
  • Second Essay: "4". TheFWD woodyevans 4 FINAL (draft v2 Done) - NEEDS GRAPH??
• Antonio Dias, Horizons of Significance, @antoniodiasri
  • First Essay: TheFWD antoniodiasri Zombies and Vampires Oh My - FINAL
  • Second Essay: TheFWD antoniodiasri On the Future We Deserve - FINAL
• Bret Weinstein, http://twitter.com/BretWeinstein
  • TheFWD BretWeinstein Adaptive governance. Evolutionary novelty and human wellbeing. - STUB
• James Hester, http://web.archive.org/web/20190726232614/http://appliedhistory.co.uk:80/?, http://twitter.com/dharmabum23
  • TheFWD dharmabum23 - FINAL - Of Arms and the Man (Draft 1 Done)
• Julia Macintosh, http://twitter.com/cricket7642
  • TheFWD cricket7642 - FINAL - a future without childhood
• Phil Green, Sustainable Community Action, http://twitter.com/Philralph
  • TheFWD Phil Green - Citizen centred participation - FINAL - (draft v1 Done)
• Joshua Pearce, http://web.archive.org/web/20121029170141/http://www.mse.mtu.edu/faculty/pearce.html, https://www.appropedia.org/User:J.M.Pearce
  • TheFWD Joshua Pearce - Solar Photovoltaic Energy Replication-- - FINAL - Solar Photovoltaic Energy Replication: A sustainable solar powered society for all is our future. (Draft 1 - Done)
  • TheFWD Joshua Pearce - OSAT - FINAL -- Open Source Appropriate Technology (Draft 1 - Done)
• Shaun Chamberlin, darkoptimism.org, http://twitter.com/DarkOptimism
  • TheFWD darkoptimism - FINAL
• Maria Elvorith, @MariaElvorith
  • TheFWD mariaelvorith FINAL - Illustrating the FWD
• Dougald Hine, http://www.dougald.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/dougald
  • TheFWD dougald - FINAL - the future of the future, the future of the past
• Frank J. Popper, http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/popper, http://twitter.com/FJPopper/
  • TheFWD FJPopper - FINAL - HE'S THE BUFFALO COMMONS GUY. OH MY GOD. (@leashless, starstruck)
• Kevin Carson, http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com
  • TheFWD Kevin Carson - FINAL
• Smári McCarthy, http://www.smarimccarthy.com, @smarimc
  • TheFWD smarimc - FINAL - "information freedom" (draft v1, pending update) and "ending scarcity".
• Marcin Jakubowski, http://opensourceecology.org/weblog/
  • TheFWD marcin ose - The Resilient Community Construction Set - STUB??
• Patri Friedman, http://seasteading.org, http://twitter.com/patrissimo/
  • TheFWD patrissimo - FINAL
• Ian Simmons, http://twitter.com/IanSimmons/
  • TheFWD IanSimmons - FINAL - we know not what. also editorial wizardly.
• Anton Shelupanov, http://thinkjustice.org/, http://twitter.com/antonsh/
  • TheFWD antonsh - FINAL - the future of justice and the end of incarceration
• Jerry Michalski, http://www.sociate.com/, http://twitter.com/jerrymichalski
  • TheFWD jerrymichalski - STUB
• Dan McQuillan, http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/danmcquillan/
  • TheFWD danmcquillan - STUB
• David Steven, http://www.globaldashboard.org/, http://twitter.com/davidsteven/
  • TheFWD davidsteven - In Praise of Insubordination - STUB
• Julian Powell, http://web.archive.org/web/20160318165642/http://thecentaur.tumblr.com/, http://twitter.com/julianpowell
  • TheFWD julianpowell - FINAL
• Jessica Charlesworth, http://futureofselfknowledge.org, http://twitter.com/jessginger
  • TheFWD jessginger - FINAL - Personal Futures and Futures Therapy
• LaRahna Hughes, http://gaccfarms.weebly.com/, http://twitter.com/larahna
  • TheFWD larahna - Social Tech and Convertible Communities - STUB ??
• Anne McCrossan, http://www.visceralbusiness.com/, http://twitter.com/annemcx/
  • TheFWD Annemcx - FINAL -Semantic organization and connectivity
• Emma Bryn-Jones, http://web.archive.org/web/20160122044241/http://www.zero-credit.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/Zerocredit_UK/
  • TheFWD Zerocredit UK - FINAL - reclaiming awesome
• Joe Turner, http://twitter.com/gentlemandad/
  • TheFWD JTurner - FINAL - rediscovering the stuff we forgot to remember
• Chris Malins, http://twitter.com/chris_malins
  • The FWD BlueChris 6 ways to live - FINAL
  • The FWD BlueChris Ode to the tech fix - FINAL
  • The FWD BlueChris Collapsarithmetic - FINAL
• Eldan Goldenberg, http://eldan.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/eldang/
  • TheFWD eldang - FINAL - Getting The Future We Want
• Brian Degger, http://www.transitlab.org/, http://twitter.com/drbrian/
  • TheFWD briandegger - FINAL - Re-envisioning our relationship with Micro-Organisms (questions)
• TheFWD PDM - FINAL - An Ideal World https://sites.google.com/site/istcsystems/projects-1/fwd--an-ideal-world
• Lisa Erwin, http://twitter.com/InKyDo/
  • TheFWD InKyDo - FINAL - Community seed saving for local food security
  • TheFWD InKyDo Higher Education for the Future We Deserve - FINAL
• Andy Novocin, http://andy.novocin.com/pro, http://twitter.com/andynovocin/
  • TheFWD AndyNovocin - FINAL - A Systemic Revolution or The need for a post-scientific approach" (Draft 1)
• Bembo Davies
  • TheFWD BemboDavies - FINAL - The Human Rite of Living
• Nathan Rosquist https://www.artmonastery.org/
  • TheFWD Nathan Rosquist Art Monasticism - FINAL
  • TheFWD Nathan Rosquist Monastech - FINAL
• Daren Forsyth http://twitter.com/DarenBBC
  • TheFWD DarenBBC - STUB
• Rohan Gunatillake http://twitter.com/rohan_21awake http://web.archive.org/web/20160113012125/http://thehereandnowproject.com/
  • TheFWD rohan 21awake - FINAL - this is mental
• Alan Chapman http://twitter.com/_alan_chapman http://openenlightenment.org:80/
  • TheFWD alan chapman - FINAL
• Arthur Doohan, http://twitter.com/artied
  • TheFWD artied - FINAL - Clash of Civilizations
  • TheFWD artied 4blades - FINAL - Four-bladed Scissors
• Otis Funkmeyer, http://www.funkmeyers.com, http://www.facebook.com/otisfunkmeyer
  • TheFWD otisfunkmeyer - FINAL - My Vision of the Future
• Cindy Frewen Wuellner PhD, FAIA http://urbanverse.posterous.com http://twitter.com/urbanverse
  • TheFWD urbanverse - FINAL - Cities of Freedom Chariots or Four-wheeled Demons?
• Tom Stafford http://twitter.com/tomstafford/
  • TheFWD tomstafford - FINAL
• Nick Taylor http://twitter.com/ikostar
  • TheFWD ikostar - FINAL
• David Jennings http://alchemi.co.uk http://twitter.com/davidjennings
  • TheFWD davidjennings - FINAL
• Catherine Lupton http://catlupton.posterous.com/ http://twitter.com/catlupton
  • TheFWD catlupton - FINAL -The Matter of Place
• Jeffrey Newman http://twitter.com/JeffreyNewman
  • TheFWD JeffreyNewman - FINAL
• Ben Werdmuller von Elgg http://twitter.com/benwerd http://web.archive.org/web/20140416151305/http://benwerd.com:80/
  • TheFWD benwerd - FINAL - Opening the floodgates
• Glenn Hall http://twitter.com/skirrid
  • TheFWD skirrid The Future of Television - FINAL - The television we deserve
  • TheFWD Glenn Hall - FINAL - One in Six : A strategy for reduction
• Zoe Lee
  • TheFWD Zoe Lee - FINAL - The world needs wives
• Thembisa Cochrane
  • TheFWD Thembisa Cochrane - FINAL - Who will save our souls?
• Jon Southurst http://twitter.com/monkeyengine
  • TheFWD south - FINAL - Hundreds of Sovereign Singapores
• Lionel Wolberger http://lawoftheair.com
  • TheFWD LawOfTheAir - FINAL -   Life in the Air, a revised version of Phlight, http://lawoftheair.com/2008/10/dawn-of-age-of-phlight.html
• David Braden http://web.archive.org/web/20151109231121/http://www.organiclandscapedesign.org:80/
  • TheFWD Designing the Future - FINAL - Designing the future is about how the parts fit together.
• Bonnie Wong Look Up, Look Around blog @BonnieOWong
  • TheFWD BonnieOWong - FINAL
• Kuldeep Brar, http://lovephool.com/, http://twitter.com/missybrar/
  • TheFWD missybrar - FINAL
• Mark Roest
  • FWD Knowledge and Action Platform - FINAL - Potential elements and uses of a global knowledge & action platform for the future we all deserve.
• Pat Kane, http://twitter.com/theplayethic
  • TheFWD theplayethic FINAL
• Mark Charmer, http://akvo.org, http://twitter.com/charmermark
  • TheFWD charmermark - FINAL
• Chris Watkins, @appropedia @appropedia on a better, open source microblog site. @chriswaterguy @chriswaterguy (open source).
  • TheFWD Chris Watkins - A Knowing World - FINAL- (draft)
• TheFWD Erik Moeller - FINAL - The Joy of Open
• Pamela Mclean, http://dadamac.net, @pamela_mclean
  • TheFWD pamela mclean - FINAL
  • TheFWD pamela mclean The Education We Deserve - FINAL
• The Socialist Party of Great Britain, http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/
  • TheFWD Socialist Party of Great Britain - FINAL - A World in Common
• Fabio Barone @faboolous
  • TheFWD fabio barone FINAL - Working together - unleashing collective intelligence
• Anil Prasad, http://apletters.blogspot.com, http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad
  • TheFWD Healthy and smiling PLANET - FINAL
  • TheFWD Online ODL; a promise for the future - FINAL - MISSING LINK
• Kenneth Lo, http://connectedbynature.com, @connectxnature, @kennethlo
  • TheFWD kenlo - The Future is Here - FINAL - We Are Always Travelling
• Alex Fradera, http://farmerversusfox.tumblr.com, @alexfradera
  • TheFWD alex fradera - all the world's a stage - FINAL
• Steve Wheeler, @steel_weaver
  • TheFWD steve wheeler - The Feet We Deserve - FINAL
  • TheFWD steve wheeler and alex fradera - Collaboration for Introverts,or, How to Make Friends and Tolerate People - FINAL
• Gary Alexander, EarthConnected
  • TheFWD Gary Alexander - Report on the Planet Earth from the Intergalactic Study Group on Worlds in Transition - FINAL
• Gaia Marcus
  • TheFWD Gaia FINAL
  • The FWD: Gaia and networks - STUB
• Michael Swifte, http://theageofwarlordscookbook.blogspot.com/, http://twitter.com/empathiser
  • TheFWD empathiser The Age of Warlords Cookbook - FINAL
• Liam Breslin
  • TheFWD Liam Breslin Berlin Berlin - FINAL
• Michael Maranda, http://openstewardship.org, http://wrythings.net. http://twitter.com/tropology
  • The FWD Michael Maranda - Open Stewardship - STUB
• John Byfield
  • The FWD John Byfield - FINAL
• Nick Stewart, http://twitter.com/nickstew_art
  • The FWD Nick Stewart - FINAL
• Peep, http://twitter.com/peeppeepeep
  • On Lying to Children - Peep
• Curtis Faith, twitter: inflector
  • The Story Our Children Will Tell - Curtis Faith
• Christopher Brewster @cbrewster
  • The food we deserve
• Jason Louv www.jasonlouv.com @jasonlouv
  • Conjurations in the Element of Flesh

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Navigation[edit | edit source]

• http://thefuturewedeserve.com - main project page
• @theFWD on twitter
• Our hash tag is #theFWD

The Shape of the Book[edit | edit source]

• Idea One: 100 short essays (< 1000 words?, 500-800 words)
• Idea Two: 99 short essays, and one long piece about 1/3 of the length of the whole pulling together a coherent vision from the parts - I like this one!

Features[edit | edit source]

• GFDL or similar license
• POD or short print run demanding on shape of demand
• Could be the first of a series
• Web site which has each essay in the book, and some kind of network for navigating between the essays, as well as (critically) connecting with the authors to Make Things Happen
• Openness to projects documenting themselves as book entries
• Translation of as much content and into as many languages as the internet smartcrowd allows

FAQ[edit | edit source]

The unapproved FAQ can be found on the discussions page. Eventually the official FAQ will be moved here.

List of articles[edit | edit source]