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G.O.D. IS GREAT
How To BuildA Global Organism
Andy Ross
How To Build A Global Organism
00Opportunities
01Global Mammon
10Consequences
11Global Union
Via technology and globalization
we are creating an organization
so integrated that it becomes a
single living organism – Globorg
How To Build A Global Organism
00Opportunities
01Global Mammon
10Consequences
11Global Union
Opportunities
0000Avatars
0001Augmented Reality
0010Bod Pods
0011Virtual Bodies
We shall each have an avatar
that we inhabit online and
James Cameron
will help us use web apps.
Bill Gates
Avatars in the semantic web
Tim Berners-Lee
will be our virtual selves.
Dan Dennett
Opportunities
0000Avatars
0001Augmented Reality
0010Bod Pods
0011Virtual Bodies
Our frontends will get smarter
Steve Jobs
and we’ll wear iVision headsets.
Ray Kurzweil
Privacy will be lost and gone.
Opportunities
0000Avatars
0001Augmented Reality
0010Bod Pods
0011Virtual Bodies
We’ll travel in rail-gun car pods
and sign on to mobility deals
Shai Agassi
using electricity from nukes.
Opportunities
0000Avatars
0001Augmented Reality
0010Bod Pods
0011Virtual Bodies
We’ll learn and work via games
Ludwig Wittgenstein
that add spice to our lives.
How To Build A Global Organism
00Opportunities
01Global Mammon
10Consequences
11Global Union
Global Mammon
0100Starship Enterprise
0101Hard Bodies
0110Greening Policy
0111Globodollars
We’ll pilot enterprise software
that might understand us.
John Searle
The pioneers for online life
Gottlob Frege
lived a hundred years ago
Bertrand Russell
and developed modern logic
Alfred North Whitehead
and mathematical codes
Kurt Gödel
for programming machines.
Alan Turing
Global Mammon
0100Starship Enterprise
0101Hard Bodies
0110Greening Policy
0111Globodollars
Robots will take over most jobs.
We’ll say they’re zombies
Dave Chalmers
that lack a sense of self.
Douglas Hofstadter
They’ll explore space for us.
Stephen Hawking
Global Mammon
0100Starship Enterprise
0101Hard Bodies
0110Greening Policy
0111Globodollars
History ended last century.
Francis Fukuyama
Now civilization is global.
Samuel P. Huntington
GO summits will make policy.
War is no longer just politics.
Carl von Clausewitz
GO will rule nation states.
G.W.F. Hegel
Global Mammon
0100Starship Enterprise
0101Hard Bodies
0110Greening Policy
0111Globodollars
Money will quantize value
Karl Marx
to revolutionize communism
V.I. Lenin
in a red-ink revolution
Mao Zedong
with bankers up front.
How To Build A Global Organism
00Opportunities
01Global Mammon
10Consequences
11Global Union
Consequences
1000Robots Everywhere
1001Uncanny Droids
1010New Life
1011Virtual Minds
Robots will be our selfless helpers
and do our heavy or dirty work.
Consequences
1000Robots Everywhere
1001Uncanny Droids
1010New Life
1011Virtual Minds
We’ll think we’re still in control
David Hume
but we’ll live inside mindworlds.
Immanuel Kant
Physics is changing biology.
Isaac Newton
Droids will evolve beyond us
Charles Darwin
and we’ll survive as biodroids.
Richard Dawkins
Consequences
1000Robots Everywhere
1001Uncanny Droids
1010New Life
1011Virtual Minds
We shall reengineer ourselves
from the genes and proteins up.
Craig Venter
Cloud engines will remodel us.
Superman will get new genes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Consequences
1000Robots Everywhere
1001Uncanny Droids
1010New Life
1011Virtual Minds
Our minds go beyond our heads
Alva Noe
and stretch into the universe.
Andy Clark
We’ll do our thinking online
René Descartes
in social minds that bind us
David Chalmers
into one great soul
Mahatma Gandhi
with global reach and power.
Winston Churchill
Our mind will reflect the universe.
Albert Einstein
How To Build A Global Organism
00Opportunities
01Global Mammon
10Consequences
11Global Union
Global Union
1100Autobiology
1101Trust Busters
1110Cloud Immortality
1111Dominion
Our soul is now electronic.
Richard Feynman
Technology changes everything.
Martin Heidegger
Our brains are nodes in the web.
Global Union
1100Autobiology
1101Trust Busters
1110Cloud Immortality
1111Dominion
Some people will resist Globorg
but resistance will be futile.
Globorg will have the nukes.
Global Union
1100Autobiology
1101Trust Busters
1110Cloud Immortality
1111Dominion
We are temporal creatures
Gödel and Einstein
who cannot clone our minds
Anton Zeilinger
but we’re immortal in the cloud.
Global Union
1100Autobiology
1101Trust Busters
1110Cloud Immortality
1111Dominion
Democracy needs an update.
Philosopher kings will realize
Plato
the dominion of a universal self.
G.O.D. IS GREAT
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