1. Fulfillment: Past & Future

2. Original vision / ideas
• A positive, proactive, crystallized vision and dedication to it
is needed
– That many parts of such are part of what we believe can be
• I am much more informed but perhaps less sure of parts of that now
– That we and others like us can make a difference
• That all the major dreams and aspirations are achievable
now or in near future
– Abundance for all
– Indefinitely long lives in perfect health
– Ever growing intelligence, knowledge, happiness
• Honing, spreading living the vision

3. Some areas explored
• Abundance
• Energy
• Economy
• Longevity
• Space
• Resources
• Intellectual Property
• Open Information & Computation
• Freedom
• Intelligence
• Accelerating Change
• Singularity
• Future oriented philosophy

4. Abundance
• Economic crisis
• Necessary Technology
– Nanotech
– Open IP
• Psychological and sociological aspects
– Do we actually understand it or advocate it?
• for everyone?
– How would economy, work, money, distribution need to change
and how can we make such changes?
• Which of these can we start exploring and developing now?
• Is Abundance for All realistic?
• Energy
• Resources

5. Energy
• Breakdown of Energy sources and costs
• Exploration of solar power, terrestrial and space
based
• Peak oil
– Evidence, consequences
– Importance of oil
– Ways to mitigate or at least survive
• Cost of energy and effects on all other prices
• Alternatives
– Thorium power

6. Space
• Near earth asteroid (mining the sky)
– Composition, mining methods, resources, value of
materials therein (trillion per asteroid on average
• Launch costs and methods
– Rocket
• Available rockets, capabilities, costs today
• Alternate rocket designs
– Non-rocket launch methods
• Space elevators, tethers, space guns, starTram, laser, launch
loops

7. Intelligence
• Intelligence augmentation
– Drugs, physical augmentation, wearables, AR, BCI
• Artificial intelligence
– FAI
– Effect on jobs, economy
– Danger / boon to humanity
• Robotics
– Robocars
– Space robotics
• Brain Emulation
– State of the Art
– Just how efficient is the brain?
– Artificial brains
• Singularity
– Versions therof
– What it is and isn’t
– Cosmist vsTerran

8. Longevity
• Medical nanotech
• End to aging and diseases
• Various anti-aging topics
• Effect of aging demographics
• Aubrey de Grey’s work
• Genomic medicine
• Dangers of “20th century medicine”
• Cryonics
• Brain plasticization
• Uploading
– Much longer or life
– Or death followed by digital ghosts/progeny
• Versus death followed by nothing?

9. Resources
• Resource shortages on earth
– Water, Food, metals, rare earths, energy
• Mining the sky
• Mining the moon
• Advanced resource research
• Future material substitutes
– Artificial atoms
– Catoms
– Nanostrutures

10. Inner Space
• Ethics
– Human
– Transhuman
• Believing what we say we do..
– How does that change how we see things? Our ethics? Our level of energy, optimism..
– AGI toward humans
• What kind of ethics can naturally arise between non-interdependent beings of radically different
intelligence and abilities
– Toward other species
• All other species? Some other species? Are they all equal?
• Self-development
– How can we maximize our happiness?
– How can we maximize our effectiveness?
• toward what we individually and collectively value most?
• what is that anyway? How clear are we about it?
• What can we do to get a lot more of what we want?
• Spirituality and Fulfillment
• Intentional communities

11. Organizational thoughts
• Some kind of Foundaiton or other form
– Desirables
• Tax exempt
• Able to raise lots of donations
– Encourage “tithes”?
• Seed money or more to relevant ventures
– Share of profits back where profits available
• Science and reason based religions
– Positives of religions
– Dangers of the space
– Do we have an adequately positive story?
– Would it creep us out too much?

12. Some 2011 plans
• Meetings and other relevant stuff at new region
• Get meetings going of meat-space Fulfillment meetups
• Internet presence
– Mediawiki
• Wiki across all the topic space we touch, continuously growing
– Continuously refined future worldview
– Continuous integration of information
– Forum
– Blog
– Google group
• What would you like to see?
– In SL? In the physical world?
• Jump in!
– Add to areas you are interested and/or knowledgeable in
– Invite others
– Help build / maintain some of these things
• Other suggestions?