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Two joys
rise to the top
among elders
joy of learning
joy of serving

:- Doug.

To look back 300 years is to look across what appears an essentially linear landscape. To look forward 300 years is trying to see over an exponential hill: it is a much farther distance. Maybe we should look back 3,000 years, or 30,000. Humanicity is probably not a straight line.

:- Doug.

What can it mean we are about to have human-created evolution? Can we be conscious of what our created evolution is creating? Science and technology cannot help but create bigger problems: can they be our sole saviors? Are there other fundamentals?

:- Doug.

If we are expanding our thinking capacity, what happens when we exponentially connect our thinkers? Perhaps today’s divisiveness is the birth pangs of connecting. Things don’t fit at first, and they’ll never fit how we imagine. This new way of meeting is conversing to the power of conversing. CC, with an exponentially growing exponent.

:- Doug.

Might a computer or an algorithm meditate? To what advantage?

:- Doug.