The Future We Deserve: Difference between revisions

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
• 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

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

(hit "Edit" and add yourself to the list - just copy the line at the bottom and add your details!)

• 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 (draft v1 Done)
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - A picture, a person, a time and a location (draft v1 Done)
  • TheFWD Bjelkeman - 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 - intelligent agents, human-centric interfaces, information flows
• 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/
  • A note on criticism - http://www.tilings.org.uk/WEE_on_criticism.pdf (process/working practices notes)
  • TheFWD Gelada - Future Education (draft v1 Done)
• Paul B. Hartzog, http://PaulBHartzog.com, http://twitter.com/paulbhartzog
  • TheFWD paulbhartzog on panarchy
• 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, LucasG at appropedia, @lucasgonzalez
  • TheFWD lucasgonzalez No island is an island Relative physical isolation gives some clues to standing on our feet while being part of the world.
  • TheFWD lucasgonzalez My ideal panflu Pandemics happen and some are bad, so what do we do.
• Kristina Glushkova http://twitter.com/tinich
  • TheFWD tinich
• Andy Broomfield http://twitter.com/andybroomfield
  • TheFWD andybroomfield Becoming hackers of social systems
• 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 - "credibility and calories" [1]
• Antonio Dias, http://horizonsofsignificance.wordpress.com/, @antoniodiasri
  • TheFWD antoniodiasri TheFWD:On the FutureWe Deserve
    
• Dan Thompson, http://www.artistsandmakers.com/, http://twitter.com/artistsmakers/
  • TheFWD artistsmakers
• Bret Weinstein, http://twitter.com/BretWeinstein
  • TheFWD BretWeinstein Adaptive governance. Evolutionary novelty and human wellbeing.
• James Hester, http://teaandanarchy.blogspot.com, http://twitter.com/dharmabum23
  • TheFWD dharmabum23 - something defence related
• Julia Macintosh, http://twitter.com/cricket7642
  • TheFWD cricket7642 - something along the lines of 'a future without childhood' Sounds creepy but it won't be...
• Phil Green, Sustainable Community Action, http://twitter.com/Philralph
  • TheFWD Phil Green - Citizen centred participation (draft v1 Done, better links to follow)
• Dan Olner, coveredinbees.org, http://twitter.com/danolner
  • TheFWD danolner
• Joshua Pearce, http://me.queensu.ca/people/pearce/, User:J.M.Pearce
  • TheFWD Joshua Pearce--Solar Photovoltaic Energy Replication: A sustainable solar powered society for all is our future. (Draft 1 - no links yet - Done)
  • if no one else does it an article on OSAT
• Shaun Chamberlin, darkoptimism.org, http://twitter.com/DarkOptimism
  • TheFWD darkoptimism
• Maria Elvorith, @MariaElvorith
  • TheFWD mariaelvorith - Illustrating the FWD
• Alan Patrick, http://broadstuff.com, http://twitter.com/freecloud/
  • TheFWD freecloud
• Jon Arden, http://www.superflux.in/, http://twitter.com/jonardern/
  • TheFWD jonarden - expected in August
• Dougald Hine, http://dougald.co.uk, http://twitter.com/dougald
  • TheFWD dougald - 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 - HE'S THE BUFFALO COMMONS GUY. OH MY GOD. (@leashless, starstruck)
• Benedict Singleton, http://twitter.com/benedict/
  • TheFWD Benedict
• Kevin Carson, http://mutualist.blogspot.com/
  • TheFWD Kevin Carson
• Smári McCarthy, http://www.smarimccarthy.com, @smarimc
  • TheFWD smarimc - "information freedom" (draft v1, pending update) and "ending scarcity".
• Marcin Jakubowski, http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/
  • TheFWD marcin ose - The Resilient Community Construction Set
• Patri Friedman, http://seasteading.org, http://twitter.com/patrissimo/
  • TheFWD patrissimo - keep in touch on this every few weeks, he's got time for 500 words!
• Ian Simmons, http://twitter.com/IanSimmons/
  • TheFWD IanSimmons - we know not what. also editorial wizardly.
• Anton Shelupanov, http://thinkjustice.org/, http://twitter.com/antonsh/
  • TheFWD antonsh - the future of justice and the end of incarceration
• Jody Rank, http://nomadologies.wordpress.com/, http://twitter.com/jranck/
  • TheFWD jranck
• Jerry Michalski, http://www.sociate.com/, http://twitter.com/jerrymichalski
  • TheFWD jerrymichalski
• Amy Johannigman, http://twitter.com/amydoesdesign/
  • TheFWD amydoesdesign
• Dan McQuillan, http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/danmcquillan/
  • TheFWD danmcquillan
• David Steven, http://www.globaldashboard.org/, http://twitter.com/davidsteven/
  • TheFWD davidsteven - In Praise of Insubordination
• Dan Mcquillan, http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/danmcquillan
  • TheFWD danmcquillan - re-emerging currents of resistance
• Richard Leyland, http://richardleyland.com/, http://twitter.com/leylandrichard/
  • TheFWD richardleyland
• Julian Powell, http://thecentaur.tumblr.com/, http://twitter.com/julianpowell
  • TheFWD julianpowell
• Viki Johnson, http://whythemagicbulletmisses.wordpress.com/, http://twitter.com/victoria_plumb
  • TheFWD victoria plumb - moving away from magic bullets to systemic change
• Catt Avery, http://www.cattavery.com/, http://twitter.com/rtgarden/
  • TheFWD rtgarden -
• James Skylar Gerrond http://twitter.com/JimmySky/
  • TheFWD JimmySky
• Stuart Dobson, http://resourcebasedliving.com, http://twitter.com/stuartdotnet
  • TheFWD stuartdobson - The future of education, Automation, machine governance
• Jessica Charlesworth, http://futureofselfknowledge.org, http://twitter.com/jessginger
  • TheFWD jessginger - Personal Futures, The future of self-knowledge
• Jim Barton, http://thegreatconvergence.blogspot.com, http://twitter.com/greatconvergnce & @earthsummit2012
  • TheFWD greatconvergnce - Waiting for the Great Convergence
• LaRahna Hughes, http://gaccfarms.weebly.com/, http://twitter.com/larahna
  • TheFWD larahna - convertible communities? I'm not sure yet.
• Silona, http://silona.org, http://twitter.com/Silona/
  • TheFWD silona
• Emma Mulqueeny, http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/, http://twitter.com/hubmum
  • TheFWD hubmum
• Anne McCrossan, http://www.visceralbusiness.com/, http://twitter.com/annemcx/
  • TheFWD Annemcx - Semantic organization and connectivity
• Frank Spencer, http://kedgeforward.com/, http://twitter.com/frankspencer, http://twitter.com/kedgeforward
  • TheFWD FrankSpencer - Transdisciplinarity to solve global dilemmas and big picture problems
• Alan McNeil Jackson, http://www.aptivate.org/, http://twitter.com/alanmjackson/
  • TheFWD AlanMJackson -
• Emma Bryn-Jones, http://zero-credit.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/Zerocredit_UK/
  • TheFWD Zerocredit UK - reclaiming awesome
• Joe Turner, http://joe-t.info/, http://twitter.com/gentlemandad/
  • TheFWD JTurner - rediscovering the stuff we forgot to remember
• Chris Malins, http://twitter.com/chris_malins
  • The FWD BlueChris - 6 ways to live, maybe tech fixes, something on agriculture, I'll see how the muse takes me
• Eldan Goldenberg, http://eldan.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/eldang/
  • TheFWD eldang - we deserve the future we're building by our actions today, which looks pretty miserable to me
  • TheFWD eldang - (tentative) how does absolute resource scarcity constrain (or simply make unattainable) the more optimistic scenarios people are writing for TheFWD?
• Tim Concannon, http://www.energydemocracy.org/2008/10/03/project/
  • TheFWD TimConcannon - Modular renewable energy technology can help Africa adapt to a changing climate and reduce the risks of increasing CO2 emissions globally.
• Your Name Here, http://www.yoursite.com/, http://twitter.com/yourhandle/
  • TheFWD yourhandle - some details about what you're going to write about

(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)