Global defines our greatest challenges – climate change, democracy, equity, food and water, saving our ocean, saving life on Earth, ending war.
Actions are local, uniquely tuned for each context.
Improv creatively adapts to the local ecosystem, learning, improving, engaging both art and science.
Lab is our studio, wherever we experiment – in the field, onsite.
We need many lenses, from the reporter’s eyewitness lens to the storyteller’s vision lens to the physicist’s quantum subjectivity lens.
Three Lenses: Reporter, Storyteller, Scientist
In a world growing ever more polarized, those in power can decide what “facts” and “correct narrative” the 99% must believe. Artists, film makers, essay and science fiction writers can raise questions and propose new lenses, enabling us to unlock old silos and integrate across disciplines. FAQ is the power of “frequently asked questions.”
John von Neumann first articulated the concept of the Singularity in 1958: “The ever-accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, cannot continue.”
Climate Change Warning: This image was a collaboration of three A.I. bots and three humans.
Vernor Vinge, mathematician and science fiction author, saw the Singularity not just as the moment when computers exceed human intelligence (Ray Kurzweil’s view), but also as the moment when humans and A.I. collaborate to manifest collaborative intelligence.
What’s neXt?
- What is an antidote to X?
- How can we harness human–A.I. collaborative intelligence?
- How can we connect autonomous nodes to empower networks?
- How can we bridge art and science to collaborate across diverse disciplines?
The neXt forum meets online monthly to explore these questions, with four speakers giving 7 minute Ignite intro talks, or featuring one speaker/ topic for half an hour, followed by an hour long group brainstorm. These invitational forum sessions explore potential action projects. Let us know your background below if you’d like to be invited.
Three labyrinths, archetypal symbols for mind, huge challenges, and complex problem-solving.
Collaborators
earthDECKS.org shows ocean plastic as a distributed supply chain that collaborative intelligence could address. earthDECKS Network (Distributed Evolving Collaborative Knowledge System) hosts essays on environmental challenges. [free-range] and [science FOO] are private lists. GAIL.global focuses on beneficial A.I. GRC [Global Regeneration Colab] is a convening platform with a calendar and slack channel. The Lifeboat Foundation focuses on existential risk. The Millennium Project focuses on global challenges. The Ocean Foundation is a fiscal sponsor with the highest rating on Charity Navigator and Platinum Level on GuideStar, working across three grand challenges: climate change, equity, and saving our ocean. Power Our World develops impact media.
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