Subjects I plan on devouring within the coming week or so… (you may want to study up):

1. Collective intelligence, distributed consciousness nodes, personality clusters/oversoul
2. Distributed business processes with automatic and human components
3. Voluntary associations, co-operatives, commonwealths, benefit societies, covenantal communities, etc
4. Pre-emptive human rights campaigns for nascent AI (waiting to hear back from Marvin Minsky on this one)
5. Corporate and legal structures to protect AI’s and uploaded human personalities
6. Phone meeting with Amy Kirschner on alt$
7. Project plans to start giving away free money
8. Digital duplication rights and reproductive rights
9. The right to die (applied 20 years into the future with conscious machines)
10. How Tickle-Me-Elmo is teaching kids to eventually fuck robots when they grow up
11. Notes on real-world costuming (symbol-focused living)
12. Hip-Hop & Community
13. Placeless living, traveling circuses, New Nomadism, Tent Show Revivalism, The Not-So-Great Depression
14. Google and constitutional law: Search & Seizure
15. Innovative business ideas for next generation laptops
16. Ron Paul and how it’s important to protect people’s right to hate (Haterz’ Rightz)
17. Television & The Land of the Dead
18. The attack on private property (contrasted with Jesus’ admonition to give away all your possessions)
19. New Illuminism & The Evolution of Conspiracy Theory

And seriously, that’s just me getting warmed up. I’m also going to get back into writing science-fiction, as things are moving too fast at this point to keep all of our conversations strictly moored to modern culture. Sci-fi will allow us to stay a little lighter on our feet and hopefully keep things lively.

{See also: my research feed, which I’m going to be leaning on more heavily for shorter clipboard-style posts.}