OUTLINE

Introduction – we have a mission, we have a deadline

• What are tools – the history of machinology
• A note about labels, let’s reject ‘isms’ and consider function only
• Social Algorithms are currently only being written by digital marketing and microservice companies, we have no civil society online

Giving the whole of humanity an indisputable unified purpose

• The call for resilient communities & supply chain compression
• What works for space colonization can shrink the footprint at home
• The long game – Bentham’s definition of Utility and its role in shaping our future

Challenges with our current institutions

• The ‘corporation’ is an outdated machine – we need an upgrade
• The election cycle is broken, let’s fix the funding model & political parties
• The environment is not a market externality, and we are deeply overleveraged

The new tool kits of the 21st Century

• Smart contracts, distributed transaction networks, digital currency exchanges
• Reputation markets, social algorithms, and mutual reciprocity
• Refactoring agriculture, and the need to mitigate soil degradation
• New energy sources, networks, and the drive towards efficiency
• Space isn’t the distant future, and its utilization will prevent resource scarcity
• Tracking every transaction in the entire global supply chain and its impact

Constructing a new, tangible, social contract through unit-operations thinking

• Let’s refactor currency, securities and property, making them multi-dimensional
• Incentive driven risks associated with UBI, and how to overcome them
• How A.I. can fully fund a larger public sector by hiding taxes beneath transactions
• Identity based equity restitution – resolving historical imbalances
• How to safely test incentive systems, for consumers and producers
• The most important job of the future, stewardship & social support networks

The most important requirement – a stable transition plan

• No time to negotiate – the house is on fire but armed guards are surrounding the fire hose
• Beyond a Green New Deal, we need to rethink Bretton Woods and the role of the IMF
• Framing a conversation to entice existing power brokers, bribe them with decaying contracts and offer cheaper buy-in to first movers