Welcome Bob!

I'm so excited to have our very first Singularity Sanctuary member, my friend Bob B! Bob, you'll likely be the only person to see his post, but it gives me a chance to make sure our email is functioning properly.

There are a couple of quotes on our "About" page that I'll give you a little background on. The first is from Max Tegmark, a physicist and author of Human 2.0.

“We should be imaging positive futures not only for ourselves, but also for society and for humanity itself ... to think about what sort of future you want rather than merely what sort of future you fear, so that we can find shared goals to plan and work for.”

It's a great read and this was, for me, the most memorable line. I've quoted it in a couple of sermons at UUCS over the years.

A couple of days ago I picked up the book Superagency by Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato. I'm only a couple of chapters in but can already highly recommend it. It distinguishes between Doomers, Gloomers, Zoomers, and Bloomers. You can probably guess what these attitudes toward technology mean without reading the book, so I won't give it away.

I'm a Bloomer, meaning I believe tech can make a better future, iteratively and intentionally. For now, I found the following line so on target for Bloomers like me that I added it to the same "About" page just this morning. Here it is:

"You'll never get the future you want simply by prohibiting the future you don't want."