Paul Hawken’s commencement speech There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or limos to your [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The Benevolent Conspiracy Is Growing
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged benevolence, paul hawken on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s Magic at the Fundamental Level of Creation
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged attraction, dna on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DNA Seems to Have Telepathic Properties
You Cannot Possibly Fail
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged tribe on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Gathering of the Tribe “I know what to do, and I trust myself to do it.”
Radical, Practical Optimism
Posted in Web Sites, tagged extropy, humanity on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The opposite of entropy is extropy. Seeking more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an indefinite lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization. Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities. Expanding into the universe and advancing without end.
Controversial, Cutting-Edge Optimism
Posted in Web Sites, tagged optimism, transhumanism on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beyond the humanists are the transhumanists. Humanity will be radically changed by technology in the future. We foresee the feasibility of redesigning the human condition, including such parameters as the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth.
Outrageous, Outlandish Optimism
Posted in Web Sites, tagged dna, hedonism, paradise on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.paradise-engineering.com/heaven.htm Within a few generations, lifelong bliss that exceeds any fantasized Christian afterlife can become the genetically-coded basis of our existence…Post-Darwinian superminds will go on to rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign our whole global ecosystem, and abolish suffering and cruelty throughout the living world.
The Science of Good Fortune
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged good luck, intention, intuition on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How to increase your good luck
Expecting the Worst Is Just Another Form of Superstition
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, ray kurzweil on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Future Is Going to Be Very Exciting
Our Time Has Come
Posted in Books, tagged future, right brain, thinking on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
Documenting the Flood of Blessings
Posted in Web Sites, tagged good news, news on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good News Network NPR story about Good News Network Good News Network Good News Daily
Expanding the Frontiers of Love
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged church, religion, same-sex marriage on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 1500-Year History of Church-Sanctioned Same-Sex Unions
