The dawn of 2019 marks four years since the original launch of Transpolitica (January 2015).
The dawn of 2019 also marks the first full availability of the book “Sustainable Superabundance: A universal transhumanist manifesto for the 2020s and beyond“.
All twelve chapters of this Manifesto are now awaiting reader review and feedback, ideally over the next 1-2 weeks. I’ll welcome any comments, on any parts of the Manifesto that catch your attention. You can make comments via this shared Google doc.
Depending on the feedback, the Manifesto is expected to be officially published around mid January – first as an ebook, and shortly afterwards in physical and audio formats.
For people inspired by any of the ideas in the Manifesto, the final chapter sets out “options to engage”.
For the opening chapter and links to all the other chapters, see here.
I’ve actually rewritten parts of every chapter over the last couple of months, as the overall flow of the message has become clearer to me. Even if you’ve read individual chapters before, you may find new inspiration from looking at the latest versions:
- Advance!
- Superabundance ahead
- Beyond technology
- Principles and priorities
- Towards abundant energy
- Towards abundant food
- Towards abundant materials
- Towards abundant health
- Towards abundant intelligence
- Towards abundant creativity
- Towards abundant democracy
- Options to engage
For comparison, Sustainable Superabundance has 54 thousand words, in the latest draft, whereas the previous Transpolitica book, Transcending Politics, has 142 thousand words. The new book is intended to be much more accessible.
On a personal note: 2019 will see, from me, a greater focus than before on activism rather than analysis. Of course, both are needed. But whereas before my energy was divided roughly 30% activist and 70% analyst, it will now be the other way round.
Similarly, I will put less focus on being a futurist and more focus on being a transhumanist.
I’m keeping an open mind as to the best organisational structures to assist these projects. I may shortly reboot or even shut down some organisations where I’ve previously invested my time. I may wind down my links with some communities and ramp up new links with others.
For the time being, I’m directing people to use the Transpolitica mailing list discussion group, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/transpolitica.
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