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That smile
in an Indianapolis food court
twenty or more years ago
yet warms and startles
she happy feeding him
he herky-jerky
in a tall electric
wheelchair
thanking
loving
enlivening
with his eyes
smiling

:- Doug.

My to do list
keeps me going
helps me distinguish
my morning wakings
so my culture says

Yet
culture is the commons
we all create
mostly unconsciously
acquiescing

Might
I become more alive
in this day of chance meeting?

:- Doug.

I look to the west
for the weather
of the future

:- Doug.

I am convinced that the “cloud” “wants” to store everything, and for ever. I am convinced we need to use the tools we have, even if they seem inadequate to the task. I am convinced we will use better tools when they become easily available to us. There is a chance, built on this shaky foundation, that our messages can make it to the 11th generation. And then there is human flesh, will, and ingenuity, in the generations between.

:- Doug.

Knowledge is growing exponentially; so is ignorance. A good thing.

:- Doug.

The drive for speed suppresses conflict—and thinking.

:- Doug.

As humanity
grows together
who might develop?

:- Doug.

The next generations are headed to be more interwoven than our rugged individualist generations.

:- Doug.

How can we become more sensitive to future generations?

:- Doug.

It’s the relationships, not the numbers alone, that create.

:- Doug.

Get your message into the cloud. It’s beginning to look like whatever is there might be there for a long time.

:- Doug.

Futures don’t often come upon us faster than some of us can handle.

:- Doug.

Aim to get within 25% at first; keep in mind that all projects take more of us than we projected.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1927

Across the stages, elders are etherealizing: getting larger and more capacious until they are indistinguishable from the mystery.

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Our quest: seeking humanicity.

:- Doug.

A first person view screen puts you inside your speeding drone. Could we get inside Grandpa? Can we put enough of ourselves into an artifact our 11th generation grandchild could use to meet us?

:- Doug.

After dictation software comes think-ware.

:- Doug.

I want my grandchildren to be more whole, more complete human beings than I. I want them to see farther, to love more deeply and effectively. What do you want for yours?

:- Doug.

Recruit us for the quest.

:- Doug.

Use organic words, phrases, and metaphors
Be subtle while you surprise
The grandchildren

:- Doug.

Would good questions carry us to unplowed ground, to unfamiliar woods and streams? What would be their comfort level? Would they require us to think? Why is thinking any criterion?

:- Doug.

If we are to ask better questions, what is better? How will we recognize them?

:- Doug.

The messages for the generations we came up with in the course were largely one dimensional: they did not present a dilemma, two choices of equal power. Ought they? Should there be something that teases the reader/hearer to go either way? Should there be a question, a message, that does not presuppose a specific answer, where “Yes” and “No” move equally well toward a right direction? Do we want them to do what we want, or what they want? What do we want them to want, and how would we want them to choose?

:- Doug.