G.O.D. IS GREAT

How To BuildA Global Organism

Andy Ross

How To Build A Global Organism

00Opportunities

01Global Mammon

10Consequences

11Global Union

Via technology and globalization

we are creating an organization

so integrated that it becomes a

single living organism – Globorg

How To Build A Global Organism

00Opportunities

01Global Mammon

10Consequences

11Global Union

Opportunities

0000Avatars

0001Augmented Reality

0010Bod Pods

0011Virtual Bodies

We shall each have an avatar

that we inhabit online and

James Cameron

will help us use web apps.

Bill Gates

Avatars in the semantic web

Tim Berners-Lee

will be our virtual selves.

Dan Dennett

Opportunities

0000Avatars

0001Augmented Reality

0010Bod Pods

0011Virtual Bodies

Our frontends will get smarter

Steve Jobs

and we’ll wear iVision headsets.

Ray Kurzweil

Privacy will be lost and gone.

Opportunities

0000Avatars

0001Augmented Reality

0010Bod Pods

0011Virtual Bodies

We’ll travel in rail-gun car pods

and sign on to mobility deals

Shai Agassi

using electricity from nukes.

Opportunities

0000Avatars

0001Augmented Reality

0010Bod Pods

0011Virtual Bodies

We’ll learn and work via games

Ludwig Wittgenstein

that add spice to our lives.

How To Build A Global Organism

00Opportunities

01Global Mammon

10Consequences

11Global Union

Global Mammon

0100Starship Enterprise

0101Hard Bodies

0110Greening Policy

0111Globodollars

We’ll pilot enterprise software

that might understand us.

John Searle

The pioneers for online life

Gottlob Frege

lived a hundred years ago

Bertrand Russell

and developed modern logic

Alfred North Whitehead

and mathematical codes

Kurt Gödel

for programming machines.

Alan Turing

Global Mammon

0100Starship Enterprise

0101Hard Bodies

0110Greening Policy

0111Globodollars

Robots will take over most jobs.

We’ll say they’re zombies

Dave Chalmers

that lack a sense of self.

Douglas Hofstadter

They’ll explore space for us.

Stephen Hawking

Global Mammon

0100Starship Enterprise

0101Hard Bodies

0110Greening Policy

0111Globodollars

History ended last century.

Francis Fukuyama

Now civilization is global.

Samuel P. Huntington

GO summits will make policy.

War is no longer just politics.

Carl von Clausewitz

GO will rule nation states.

G.W.F. Hegel

Global Mammon

0100Starship Enterprise

0101Hard Bodies

0110Greening Policy

0111Globodollars

Money will quantize value

Karl Marx

to revolutionize communism

V.I. Lenin

in a red-ink revolution

Mao Zedong

with bankers up front.

How To Build A Global Organism

00Opportunities

01Global Mammon

10Consequences

11Global Union

Consequences

1000Robots Everywhere

1001Uncanny Droids

1010New Life

1011Virtual Minds

Robots will be our selfless helpers

and do our heavy or dirty work.

Consequences

1000Robots Everywhere

1001Uncanny Droids

1010New Life

1011Virtual Minds

We’ll think we’re still in control

David Hume

but we’ll live inside mindworlds.

Immanuel Kant

Physics is changing biology.

Isaac Newton

Droids will evolve beyond us

Charles Darwin

and we’ll survive as biodroids.

Richard Dawkins

Consequences

1000Robots Everywhere

1001Uncanny Droids

1010New Life

1011Virtual Minds

We shall reengineer ourselves

from the genes and proteins up.

Craig Venter

Cloud engines will remodel us.

Superman will get new genes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Consequences

1000Robots Everywhere

1001Uncanny Droids

1010New Life

1011Virtual Minds

Our minds go beyond our heads

Alva Noe

and stretch into the universe.

Andy Clark

We’ll do our thinking online

René Descartes

in social minds that bind us

David Chalmers

into one great soul

Mahatma Gandhi

with global reach and power.

Winston Churchill

Our mind will reflect the universe.

Albert Einstein

How To Build A Global Organism

00Opportunities

01Global Mammon

10Consequences

11Global Union

Global Union

1100Autobiology

1101Trust Busters

1110Cloud Immortality

1111Dominion

Our soul is now electronic.

Richard Feynman

Technology changes everything.

Martin Heidegger

Our brains are nodes in the web.

Global Union

1100Autobiology

1101Trust Busters

1110Cloud Immortality

1111Dominion

Some people will resist Globorg

but resistance will be futile.

Globorg will have the nukes.

Global Union

1100Autobiology

1101Trust Busters

1110Cloud Immortality

1111Dominion

We are temporal creatures

Gödel and Einstein

who cannot clone our minds

Anton Zeilinger

but we’re immortal in the cloud.

Global Union

1100Autobiology

1101Trust Busters

1110Cloud Immortality

1111Dominion

Democracy needs an update.

Philosopher kings will realize

Plato

the dominion of a universal self.

G.O.D. IS GREAT

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