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The only problem is, as Edward O. Wilson so succinctly put it, "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." So how do we overcome our Paleolithic emotions (like fear, jealousy, and greed) and our medieval institutions (US health care, anyone?) to deploy our godlike technologies?

Howard Rheingold: "Now that so many are forced to use online media to communicate, let's use this opportunity to create many smaller virtual communities and social networks outside the enclosed world of Facebook."

Could be interesting, the history of DARPA - the place where so many innovations began and will come from

Virtual communities can make the world a better place. or they can manipulate elections by spreading hate messages en conspiracy theories. Or they can manipulate the stock markets in a so-called anti-establishment frenzy, which is no more that a thin veil hiding resentment, hate and greed. Revolutions are not always pretty to look at.

Why do so many in the Open Source world prefer gift-style licensing (BSD, MIT, Apache) vs. share-and-share-alike licensing (like GPL)? Because the largest corporations control the dialogue and speak for the Open Source community, and it is to their advantage. Not anyone else's.

This is an interesting point of view which reminds me of the Solid-discussion we had. Solid allows the user to control her data and to have an overview of personal data. It also allows seamless integration of many information types and as such it can be used to streamline information at companies and institutions. So Solid could just as well be used to connect seamlessly many types of information about you and me. Maybe we could still consult that information in readable-but-not-writable form, but it would be of even bigger interest to surveillance professionals from states and private companies who probably would have to means to get this information in a readable and writable form.

Transscript of DWeb panel. "Many of us know that the Internet is broken, so how do we build something better? On September 22, DWeb San Francisco invited a panel of experts to share their views on the most viable paths forward. The panelists included author & EFF advisor Cory Doctorow, Matrix.org co-founder Amandine Le Pape, decentralized social media researcher Jay Graber, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick. They covered a range of approaches - including technical, regulatory, and organizational - that could bring us towards a future where our networks are more resilient, participatory, and decentralized."

Where not-so-utopian cities are unveiled (and Invisible cities become real). Also technologies play a foundamental role.

Brilliant find Roland, will some help the rest of us to participate here, or have they done so already and I missed it? Thanks again.

Facebook seems to be aware of the ethical challenges of the braincomputer interface.

Let's hack this

I tried annotating with Diigo... but was just immediately told that I can't because it's a premium feature... Hypothesis works though... SO I started annotating within the context of our group.

Does everyone get notified when I add a comment here? Or just you Ted?

If you have any interest in scifi, futurism and world-building at all, you should listen to this, I guess.

I checked this out on my Oculus Quest. The Quest has a passthrough feature, enabling you to see the real world once you get outside the virtual gamezone. However, that cannot be compare to 'real' AR goggles such as the Hololens. All of which means that inside the Quest the VR meetings are not holographic, but just VR - but even so rather interesting.