when i was first thinking about putting this blog together, i has a tough time coming up with a name - of course all of my stuff in a variation on "future" - but in this case, i wanted to talk about the future of humanity, and how we are using electronic connectivity tools, like the internet, to augment ourselves and out personal experience. we are all doing it right now, by participating in things like twitter and facebook and myspace. humanfuture was taken and way too obtuse I guess. so i'm lucky socialfuture.blogspot.com is free.
What will i be talking about on this blog? well, one of the things I'm intensely interested in is making myself - and by extension by teaching these techniques to others - humanity, better. Its one of the themes of my show - the THINKfuture podcast. I firmly believe that using social networking tools to extend our senses, both inwards and outwards, to others over the internet, whether its over low bandwidth connections like twitter, or high bandwidth connections like Second Life, or even World Of Warcraft is how we will evolve humanity ot the next level.
I'm not talking physical evolution. I'm talking human directed evolution, via physical and electronic augmentation. We are already cyborgs, with our Blackberry strapped to our hip at all times - the full set of the worlds knowledge a simple web surf away. Or re-engineering our own mental and physical selves via new drugs, supplements, surgery etc. Everything from taking steriods, to having a friends list on Facebook, is fair game.
This is the stuff I'm talking about - evolving humanity, any way we can.
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