life after design
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- stewdio0
Unlimited funding and amnesty for travel and assembling research teams of people / for topics of my choosing. Would start by taking my friends on a tour of Xerox PARC, Google, Apple, etc. Attend lectures at TED, Long Now, PopTech, etc. Create various think tanks—basically funded safe havens for smart people who need shelter from clients and bosses—for developing new computer languages, human interfaces, music, design, dance. Hold conferences with my counter-parts from around the world. Send welcoming beacons into deep space. Create low-fi ad-hoc communications networks with DIY punk rock as inspiration. Equal rights for gays. Be a catalyst for a (positive) rethinking of the intersection of capitalism, privacy, and copyright. Team up with groups fixing the economy, creating sustainable industrialized cultures, ending poverty, hunger, and illiteracy. (But that's their foci, my group is more directly nerd-porn topics.) Marginalize religion to its rightful place as petty superstition. In addition to national anthem the US will have weekly rotating featured pop song, beginning with Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop."