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A collaborative book project about the future

We'll have some other collaboration tools online shortly, but for now, welcome to the wiki.

Inspirations and Guidance

• 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

Collaborators

• 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.
  • TheFWD leashless the future of poverty - a condensation of http://agit8.org.uk/?p=268
• Joe Simpson, http://movementdesign.org, http://twitter.com/JoeSimpson
  • TheFWD JoeSimpson - transport
• Thomas Bjelkeman, http://akvo.org, http://twitter.com/Bjelkeman
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - seawater into food, transparent governance
• Eleanor Saitta, http://sldrc.com, http://twitter.com/dymaxion
  • TheFWD dymaxion
• Venessa Miemis, http://emergentbydesign.com/, http://twitter.com/VenessaMiemis
  • TheFWD VenessaMiemis - junto? business models?
• Alex Bowyer, http://www.human20.com/, http://twitter.com/alexbfree
  • TheFWD alexbfree
• Paul Graham Raven, http://futurismic.com/, http://twitter.com/PaulGrahamRaven
  • TheFWD PaulGrahamRaven
• Mark Frazier, http://openworld.com/, http://twitter.com/openworld/
  • TheFWD openworld - charter cities? microgrants?
• Ishan Shapiro, http://notthisbody.com, http://twitter.com/notthisbody, http://spacecollective.org/notthisbody
  • TheFWD notthisbody
• Edmund Harriss, http://maxwelldemon.com/edmund-harriss/, http://twitter.com/Gelada/
  • TheFWD Gelada - future of education?
• Paul B. Hartzog, http://PaulBHartzog.com, http://twitter.com/paulbhartzog
  • TheFWD paulbhartzog
• Nicholas Butler, http://loudmouthman.com/, http://twitter.com/loudmouthman
  • TheFWD loudmouthman - from the perspective of a parent
• Sam Rose http://forwardfound.org/Us, http://twitter.com/SamRose
  • TheFWD SamRose
• Bernd Nurnberger, http://cocreatr.typepad.com/, http://twitter.com/CoCreatr/
  • TheFWD CoCreatr
• Richard C Adler http://forwardfound.org/Us, http://twitter.com/RichardCAdler
  • TheFWD RichardCAdler
• Lucas Gonzalez http://imagina-canarias.blogspot.com, [http://www.appropedia.org/User:LucasG LucasG at

appropedia], @lucasgonzalez

• • TheFWD lucasgonzalez
• Kristina Glushkova http://twitter.com/tinich
  • TheFWD tinich
• Andy Broomfield http://twitter.com/andybroomfield
  • TheFWD andybroomfield
• Allen Wentz http://allenwentz.bandcamp.com/, http://twitter.com/allenwentz
  • TheFWD allenwentz
• Woody Evans http://woodyevans.com/, http://twitter.com/woodyevans
  • TheFWD woodyevans - on values of knowledge
• Antonio Dias, http://horizonsofsignificance.wordpress.com/, @antoniodiasri
  • TheFWD antoniodiasri
• Dan Thompson, http://www.artistsandmakers.com/, http://twitter.com/artistsmakers/
  • TheFWD artistsmakers
• Bret Weinstein, http://twitter.com/BretWeinstein
  • TheFWD BretWeinstein
• James Hester, http://teaandanarchy.blogspot.com, http://twitter.com/dharmabum23
  • TheFWD dharmabum23 - something defence related
• Julia Macintosh, http://twitter.com/cricket7642
  • TheFWD cricket7642
• Phil Green, http://sca21.wikia.com/wiki/Sustainable_Community_Action:Community_Portal
  • TheFWD Phil Green
• Dan Olner, coveredinbees.org, http://twitter.com/danolner
  • TheFWD danolner
• Joshua Pearce, http://me.queensu.ca/people/pearce/, User:J.M.Pearce
  • TheFWD solar photovoltaic energy self replication An updated version of this: [1] and if no one else does it an article on OSAT
• Shaun Chamberlin, darkoptimism.org, http://twitter.com/DarkOptimism
  • TheFWD darkoptimism
• Maria Elvorith, @MariaElvorith
  • Illustrating the FWD

(hit "Edit" and add yourself to the list)

Navigation

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

The Shape of the Book

• 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

• 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

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

Abstracts

(for now, a paragraph-long summary of your idea, and link here. we'll do some more work on sorting out how to process abstracts and submit articles for the book very soon)

(guys, let's move the abstracts to the contributor sections - I think that's the way to do it for now)

Panarchy

Food from seawater by Bjelkeman

Transparency in governance by Bjelkeman

Citizen centred participation, Phil Green