- What are tools – the history of machinology
- A note about labels, let’s reject ‘isms’ and consider function only
- Social Algorithms are currently only being written by digital marketing and microservice companies, we have no civil society online
- The call for resilient communities & supply chain compression
- What works for space colonization can shrink the footprint at home
- The long game – Bentham’s definition of Utility and its role in shaping our future
- The ‘corporation’ is an outdated machine – we need an upgrade
- The election cycle is broken, let’s fix the funding model & political parties
- The environment is not a market externality, and we are deeply overleveraged
- Smart contracts, distributed transaction networks, digital currency exchanges
- Reputation markets, social algorithms, and mutual reciprocity
- Refactoring agriculture, and the need to mitigate soil degradation
- New energy sources, networks, and the drive towards efficiency
- Space isn’t the distant future, and its utilization will prevent resource scarcity
- Tracking every transaction in the entire global supply chain and its impact
- Let’s refactor currency, securities and property, making them multi-dimensional
- Incentive driven risks associated with UBI, and how to overcome them
- How A.I. can fully fund a larger public sector by hiding taxes beneath transactions
- Identity based equity restitution – resolving historical imbalances
- How to safely test incentive systems, for consumers and producers
- The most important job of the future, stewardship & social support networks
- No time to negotiate – the house is on fire but armed guards are surrounding the fire hose
- Beyond a Green New Deal, we need to rethink Bretton Woods and the role of the IMF
- Framing a conversation to entice existing power brokers, bribe them with decaying contracts and offer cheaper buy-in to first movers