Global Design for Geoethical Nanotechnology

The World as a Design
A shape can take many different forms. It can be angular, move around, gyrate one way or another, become a spiral, move up and down and around, and form many vortexes and apexes from which to create new designs, new complex adaptive systems and new ways of dealing and thinking about things. But if we look at the world as a design as I think Buckminster Fuller and many other good thinkers have done in not just agriculture, architecture, politics, economics, education, philosophy and every different domain where the expertise is needed to develop a design for the future, we can work towards that.

I think maybe one of the best ways is through storytelling, however, it is not as though we must tell the story to someone else or sit and listen to the story being told to us. Perhaps we take on the roles. And role-playing – like scenario planning and systems thinking – is an excellent way to teach each other how to deal with change, take on new roles, and play on the other side.

Final Questions
As we explore the global design mission, we must ask ourselves many questions. How much technology is too much? How far is too far? How can we teach people that it is okay to reason and think critically about things? Critical thinking is essential and it's probably one of the most important skills to have in thinking about the future and thinking about design for the future. Let’s think critically but with vast open minds about this exciting future.

Natasha Vita-More is a cultural strategist and founder of the transhumanist movement and the Extropy Institute.