This is definitely of interest, Rob!

I'd like to suggest that we may be approaching a point of unique
opportunity. Forgive me if this observation veers towards the abstract.

It seems to me that political and economic power has become incredibly
backward-looking. Despite their investment in futuristic technology,
currently tech billionaires (and fossil fuel billionaires) seem,
increasingly, to manufacture support for their activities by appealing to
nostalgia, revanchism, reactionary ideas, divisiveness and disconnection.
Artificial Intelligence will only accelerate this tendency,

This tactic may be as depressing as it is effective, but it leaves the
field open for a new type of participatory futurism, in which citizens
imagine, experiment with, and participate in practices that reflect
imaginative futuristic visions, We need to do it, because they won't. We
will regain the cultural initiative, because their power rests upon
reactionary, backward-looking structures and ideas, that Rob describes as
"Operating like Feudal Lords".

As well as active "refusenik" practices (we periodically see waves of
people abandoning social media, for example) we also need to encourage,
support and platform new citizen-led visions of the future. I suspect, at
the core of this, is the activity of making your own value―not simply
providing yourself with necessary goods and services (cooking your own
food, generating your own power, building your own computer) but also
building entertainment yourself, rather than receiving it from corporate
writers rooms via corporate pipes. Entertainment, in the form of the arts,
builds meaning. And whoever builds meaning builds the future.

It is crucial to understand just how significant imagination is as a
precursor to change.

James

On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 8:32 PM Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???>
wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> We are all a lot wiser and not in a bad shape it seems.I too agree about
> picking your fights. For me it was the realisation that there were too many
> drivers cheering for the Internet of Things, so no point in fighting it but
> becoming part of it. So in 25 years I have become an industry expert:
>
> https://onem2m.org/membership/executive-viewpoints/927-rob-van-kranenburg-au24
>
> I have recently written a text that spans that 25 years and that offer
> some solutions, I hope.
>
> I think it is time to revive resources on the bricolist and see what we
> have.
>
> We have expertise in EU funding programs and know how to do proposals. We
> all have extensive networks and can help people to introductions.
>
> I had a great talk today with Venzha and we both agreed it was a good idea
> to see who is doing what and how people are seeing the present and future,
>
> Greetings, Rob
>
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