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Moving Beyond Dogmas
Most of my performance art and films have been made from the environment
- inside volcanos, out at sea for three months, attaching
myself to rock formations - doing all sorts of interesting things with
the environment, with the concept of perpetual change and moving
away from the constraints that tie us to the dogmas of the world. Figure 3 illustrates the limitlessness inherent in global design.
Figure 3
What are the dogmas of the world? They tend to be in these areas
of technology, politics, societal beliefs, and economics. We need to
move away from these dogmas when considering different effects of nanotechnology,
especially molecular engineering in nanotechnology.
What
if we had a new political system that wasn't so party-based, that was
more trans-political? Not necessarily beyond politics, but moving in
transition, where we develop better ways to assess how we view issues
and how those issues affect us. One idea for this model would be to
create a Blogocracy. A Blogocracy would be a series of nomothetic and
diplomacy-based referendums for voting on issues where pervasive computing
power would enable instant feedback and communication between people
in diverse cultures going through diverse situations in their own personal
lives.
This
type of political system would remove the Im right, youre
wrong camps. My issue is better than your issue. I
know the answer, you don't." Instead, a Blogocracy would ask what
do people really think? How can they vote on an issue rapidly? Now we
are talking about structures with molecular logic gates. When you get
into that level of molecular nanotechnology, you are looking at a whole
other format for computing power. The point there is that it would be
rapid, it would be efficient, it would be time-conscious and it would
exist more on its own.
In
a Blogocracy, voting would be based specifically on each persons
beliefs. I believe that much of the angst in society today is a result
of people not getting their thought across or because their idea is
not voted on or they feel powerless to direct where their tax money
goes. In a Blogocracy, the onus is on the individual to determine for
him or herself what he wants, such as where his taxes go. Do you want
it to go to feed the children in Africa or would you rather it be directed
towards water desalination?
Critical Thinking
This type of system would highlight critical thinking. A Blogocracy
would be networked around the world. If you squint your eyes, you can
imagine how these networks might work. Envision the instantaneous voting
and discussions. However, if people do not have the ability for critical
thinking, this system will not work. And further, as far as design goes
of that molecular structure, what about renaissance teams of thinking?
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