a year ago today
A noble attempt to modify the Earth’s orbit with a massive synchronized jump of 600 million people, World Jump Day, took place exactly one year ago. It failed to create any lasting effects on the orbit or the environment, but as a social experiment to get people to act globally (whether it be for environmental causes or just to have fun) it coincides well with a topic Di-Ann will be talking about on an ‘about the future’ panel discussion at Free Geek this Sunday. That topic being (in my “paraphrasology”) the coagulation of dispersed networks of people into larger, more efficient yet less steerable, entities, moving up the scale as far as a unified global monoculture which could pool resources for tremendously huge projects that we can’t really even consider today. The pyramids of tomorrow may be planetary.
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