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!)
When you are ready to submit your piece, click on the link below your name and paste your piece into the edit window that appears.
- 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://agit8.org.uk/?p=268
- TheFWD leashless The Tiny Army
- TheFWD leashless Our Future and the Sun
- 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 - Thinking the unthinkable. Asking what is not asked. (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 (draft v1 Done>
- TheFWD Bjelkeman - Transparent governance
- Eleanor Saitta, http://sldrc.com, http://twitter.com/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
- Paul Graham Raven, http://futurismic.com/, http://twitter.com/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
- 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)
- Challenging Education and the "Harry Potter Letter" (22/8/10 Version 4 Done)
- The futures we deserve or why even bankers might have uses (14/9/10 Version 1)
- 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
- Bernd Nurnberger, http://cocreatr.typepad.com/, http://twitter.com/CoCreatr/
- Richard C Adler http://forwardfound.org/Us, http://twitter.com/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. (draft v1 Done)
- TheFWD lucasgonzalez My ideal panflu Pandemics happen and some are bad, so what do we do. (draft v1 Done)
- Kristina Glushkova http://twitter.com/tinich
- Andy Broomfield http://twitter.com/andybroomfield
- TheFWD andybroomfield The future of programming - draft
- TheFWD andybroomfield hacking society Hacking Society - abstract
- Allen Wentz http://allenwentz.bandcamp.com/, http://twitter.com/allenwentz
- 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 (draft v2 Done)
- Antonio Dias, Horizons of Significance, @antoniodiasri
- First Essay: Zombies & Vampires, Oh My!
- Second Essay: On the FutureWe Deserve
- Dan Thompson, http://www.artistsandmakers.com/, http://twitter.com/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 - Of Arms and the Man (Draft 1 Done)
- Julia Macintosh, http://twitter.com/cricket7642
- TheFWD cricket7642 - a future without childhood
- Phil Green, Sustainable Community Action, http://twitter.com/Philralph
- TheFWD Phil Green - Citizen centred participation (draft v1 Done)
- Dan Olner, coveredinbees.org, http://twitter.com/danolner
- Joshua Pearce, http://me.queensu.ca/people/pearce/, User:J.M.Pearce
- TheFWD Joshua Pearce - Solar Photovoltaic Energy Replication--Solar Photovoltaic Energy Replication: A sustainable solar powered society for all is our future. (Draft 1 - Done)
- TheFWD Joshua Pearce - OSAT -- Open Source Appropriate Technology (Draft 1 - Done)
- Shaun Chamberlin, darkoptimism.org, http://twitter.com/DarkOptimism
- Maria Elvorith, @MariaElvorith
- TheFWD mariaelvorith - Illustrating the FWD
- Alan Patrick, http://broadstuff.com, http://twitter.com/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/
- Kevin Carson, http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com
- 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/
- Jerry Michalski, http://www.sociate.com/, http://twitter.com/jerrymichalski
- Amy Johannigman, http://twitter.com/amydoesdesign/
- Dan McQuillan, http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/, http://twitter.com/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/
- Julian Powell, http://thecentaur.tumblr.com/, http://twitter.com/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/
- James Skylar Gerrond http://twitter.com/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 and Futures Therapy
- 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 - Social Tech and Convertible Communities
- Silona, http://silona.org, http://twitter.com/Silona/
- Emma Mulqueeny, http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/, http://twitter.com/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/
- 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 - Getting The Future We Want
- 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.
- Brian Degger, http://www.transitlab.org/, http://twitter.com/drbrian/
- TheFWD briandegger - Re-envisioning our relationship with Micro-Organisms (questions)
- TheFWD PDM - An Ideal World https://sites.google.com/site/istcsystems/projects-1/fwd--an-ideal-world
- Lisa Erwin, http://twitter.com/InKyDo/
- TheFWD InKyDo - Community seed saving for local food security (posted on Google docs): http://tiny.cc/ysq7u
- Andy Novocin, http://andy.novocin.com/pro, http://twitter.com/andynovocin/
- TheFWD AndyNovocin - A Systemic Revolution or The need for a post-scientific approach" (Draft 1)
- Stuart Candy, http://futuryst.blogspot.com/, http://twitter.com/futuryst/
- TheFWD futuryst - designing and simulating our way towards an emergent social capacity for foresight
- Claire A. Thompson, http://www.helloclaire.com/, http://twitter.com/claireashley/
- TheFWD ClaireAshley - Tools for cross cultural collaboration
- Benbo Davies
- TheFWD BemboDavies - The Human Rite of Living
- Nathan Rosquist http://www.otherhood.org, http://www.artmonastery.org
- Lucy Wills http://twitter.com/re_present
- TheFWD re present open source/creativity and the need for horse and animal power.
- Daren Forsyth http://twitter.com/DarenBBC
- JP Rangaswami http://twitter.com/jobsworth
- Rohan Gunatillake http://twitter.com/rohan_21awake http://thehereandnowproject.com
- TheFWD rohan 21awake - this is mental
- Alan Chapman http://twitter.com/_alan_chapman http://openenlightenment.org
- Arthur Doohan, http://twitter.com/artied
- TheFWD artied - Clash of Civilizations
- TheFWD artied 4blades - Four-bladed Scissors
- Otis Funkmeyer, http://www.funkmeyers.com, http://www.facebook.com/otisfunkmeyer
- TheFWD otisfunkmeyer - My Vision of the Future
- Cindy Frewen Wuellner http://urbanverse.posterous.com http://twitter.com/urbanverse
- TheFWD urbanverse the forgetful city, a future scenario
- Tom Stafford http://twitter.com/tomstafford/
- Nick Taylor http://twitter.com/ikostar
- David Jennings http://alchemi.co.uk http://twitter.com/davidjennings
- Matt Nathan http://twitter.com/mattnathan
- Catherine Lupton http://catlupton.posterous.com/ http://twitter.com/catlupton
- TheFWD catlupton The Matter of Place
- Jeffrey Newman http://twitter.com/JeffreyNewman
- Ben Werdmuller von Elgg http://twitter.com/benwerd http://benwerd.com/
- TheFWD benwerd - Opening the floodgates
- Wendy Schultz http://twitter.com/wendyinfutures http://www.infinitefutures.com
- TheFWD Wendy Schultz Fighting images with an image of the future we deserve
- TheFWD Wendy Schultz Daydreaming and dialogue for the future we deserve
- Glenn Hall http://twitter.com/skirrid
- TheFWD Glenn Hall The television we deserve
- TheFWD Glenn Hall One in Six : A strategy for reduction
- Zoe Lee
- TheFWD Zoe Lee The world needs wives
- Thembisa Cochrane
- TheFWD Thembisa Cochrane Who will save our souls?
- Jon Southurst http://twitter.com/monkeyengine
- TheFWD south Hundreds of Sovereign Singapores
- Lionel Wolberger http://lawoftheair.com
- TheFWD LawOfTheAir Life in the Air, a revised version of Phlight, http://lawoftheair.com/2008/10/dawn-of-age-of-phlight.html
- David Braden http://www.organiclandscapedesign.org/
- TheFWD Designing the Future Designing the future is about how the parts fit together.
- Bonnie Wong Look Up, Look Around blog Work @BonnieOWong
- Kuldeep Brar, http://www.lovephool.com, http://twitter.com/missybrar/
- Mark Roest
- FWD Knowledge and Action Platform Potential elements and uses of a global knowledge & action platform for the future we all deserve.
- Pat Kane, http://twitter.com/theplayethic
- Mark Charmer, http://akvo.org, http://twitter.com/charmermark
- Chris Watkins, @appropedia @appropedia on a better, open source microblog site. @chriswaterguy @chriswaterguy (open source).
- TheFWD Erik Moeller - The Joy of Open
- Pamela Mclean, http://dadamac.net, @pamela_mclean
- The Socialist Party of Great Britain, http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/
- TheFWD Socialist Party of Great Britain - A World in Common
- Fabio Barone @faboolous
- TheFWD fabio_barone Working together - unleashing collective intelligence
- Anil Prasad, http://apletters.blogspot.com, http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad
(hit "Edit" and add yourself to the list)
- 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)
Hi,
I want to submit absrtact for my article, today is last day , can i submit now...?
i want to talk about the write about the current senario about women in dveloping countires in the light of my recent paper presented in International conferance "building stretigic vision for invisible librarians"
please answer my mail then i will proceed further..
Thanks
Qaisra Riaz Jaswal Lahore, Pakistan qaisrar@yahoo.com