Foresight Engine

Critical Imagination in response to:

What are the barriers to creating these new civic innovations?

The private ownership of public data -- our collective data is owned by for-profit companies rather than being a public good

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Investigation in response to:

We dont want to teach our children that every skill is learned from files and network.They might lose the childhood.

What is childhood? How has the concept changed in the past, when did it originate, and why should the current concept be protected?

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Momentum in response to:

Innovations won't be really important without money and weapons

To make innovations important, we need to leverage the power currently contained in money and weapons.

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Investigation in response to:

People's perceptions and views around the role of government.

What are the public perceptions about the role of government?

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Momentum in response to:

I think there might easily be some problems with privacy issues. Who and how do we want to have access to data concerning ourselves?

All data collection must be voluntary -- by default, privacy-enhancing technology should restrict outbound data, unless told otherwise.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Information is power; in free societies, power transfer is voluntary: by default, no data can leave personal networks unless marked public.

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Adaptation in response to:

But what if we are talking about perhaps people suffering from e.g. dementia. Should their information be available in case they get lost?

The choice to share data could be legally similar to the right to make other choices and covered under power of attourny.

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Antagonism in response to:

National Identification number could allow the government to keep track of its citizens.

National ID numbers already exist - and to what extent does a person's right to privacy allow government tracking?

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Antagonism in response to:

Visualizations could be created to show the effects of collecting and hoarding materials to help shift away from consumer culture

Even the most perfect rational argument won't convince everyone, or even a majority. Visualizations won't help.

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Antagonism in response to:

Provide online courses that develop and empower a citizen core.

These courses are only accessible to those who can afford computers, Internet connections, and time, helping to entrench class privilege.

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Antagonism in response to:

Then we shall teach the children

Should parents be unable to choose how their children are educated? To what extent is having personal children a human right?

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Momentum in response to:

Then we shall teach the children

Eliminate the concept of children of specific individuals, and make all children wards of the state.

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Antagonism in response to:

yes, are they less competent to decree..no, they are just in the different level..they find out conclusons themselves

Competence is not the question; the question is whether a single mother working more than one minimum-wage job has time for online classes.

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Momentum in response to:

A basic human tendency to think of the world as "us" and "them" and to suspect, over-generalize, and avoid "them"

Apply techniques that are known to decrease ingroup/outgroup tension such as the Jigsaw Classroom in public schools.

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Momentum in response to:

Inequalities, in wealth, power and technology

Could inequality be mitigated by building alternative currencies/networks that redistribute power horizontally rather than hierarchically?

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Momentum in response to:

In the United states there is fear of coercive government influence. That fear will hinder implementation of a more open government model.

All open government technologies should shift power from governments to people, so that people afraid of state coercion will support them

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Adaptation in response to:

Controversy haha! At least reinstill the ideas of community raising children instead of just parents (common in some cultures)

Provide community daycare and schooling with curriculum determined by local communities, rather than government.

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Antagonism in response to:

Yes, definitely. In the short term this will require taking some of the power at the 'top' of the hierarchy and pulling it down.

No government will support civic innovations that restrict government/corporate power; see bitcoin, egold, bittorrent, etc.

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Momentum in response to:

Yes, definitely. In the short term this will require taking some of the power at the 'top' of the hierarchy and pulling it down.

Citizens can demand politicians who commit to making all decisions via direct democracy over connective technologies (internet, cellphones)

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Investigation in response to:

I like part of this. But how would there be regulation between community curriculum? What if one comm decided not to teach math?

This is the paradox of choice: with democracy we allow communities to kill math; by forcing math on communities against it we kill democracy

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Adaptation in response to:

I like part of this. But how would there be regulation between community curriculum? What if one comm decided not to teach math?

Force competition/collaboration with other communities and force communities with frequent loss/low peer ratings to rewrite curriculums.

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Investigation in response to:

Studies show the types of daycare that have huge positive impact on child development, how do local coms need to integrate this research.

See my adaptation here: http://game.connected-citizens.org/card_plays/5465 -- maybe a way to cause drift towards better methods

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Investigation in response to:

But really it is enhancing opportunity for children in each community. Is it democratic to take opportunities away?

Anything that is favored by a majority is democratic; whether those things are good is another question entirely.

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Antagonism in response to:

Putting sensors into trees/soil that track the micro climate, ensuring we can spot problems faster, contribute to global climate change info

We have more information now than ever, but this information hasn't correlated with better governance. We need something better than data.

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Investigation in response to:

But then this is relative to what you include as the demographic - a community, a province, a country - or all humans.

Yes, but is it moral to allow large groups to dictate the lives of minorities? Current oppression of LGBT people is largely democratic.

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Momentum in response to:

I don't mean educated about how to use them, but about why they should use them. Why they should be engaged in their communities.

If a new civic technology has no obvious and extreme benefit to its use, it should be immediately discarded.

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Investigation in response to:

Will reputation and confidence capital used in virtual environment ever reach real value in real life eg sharing economy, service swapping,.

Rather than building new forms of reputation capital, how can we leverage existing accepted value stores to quantify reputation?

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Momentum in response to:

Tie results to teacher, parent, and community member rep/karma scores. Create incentives for improvement and positive feedback.

Treat having children as an investment by quantifying people's social impact, rewarding their parents in proportion to their involvement.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Take kickstarter to the extreme; systems that let people take collective ownership of local businesses, share profit, reduce corporatism

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Investigation in response to:

This begs the question: what can be done about widespread opposition to the concept of human rights, i.e. minimum standards of treatment?

Are human rights compatible with democracy? Can we democratically vote away human rights? How does civic tech interact with human rights?

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Investigation in response to:

Take control and ownership of local spaces too!

How can #crowdsourcing, #ubicomp, and #privacy tech combine to disrupt private ownership of public space?

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Investigation in response to:

Does such an opposition actually exist outside of Internet comments? If someone can say it, someone believes it privately, so yes.

Democratic countries routinely pass laws that oppress minority groups - this question is easily answered by history/current events.

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Critical Imagination in response to:

What are the barriers to creating these new civic innovations?

Volunteerism is harmful: when a company spills oil and volunteers clean it up, they're rewarding that company by helping it avoid payment.

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Momentum in response to:

In your example, yes, but if the volunteers don't help out, who will?

Corporations that damage public goods (oceans, air, etc.) should be forced to pay the cost of repairing that damage, rather than volunteers

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Investigation in response to:

really? what if the company cleaned it up and no one ever saw what happened. or they only cleaned up the visible part?

But should people doate their time(=money) to companies that damage the environment? Holding companies accountable doesn't imply free labor

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Momentum in response to:

Whoa discarded might be a bit far. Perhaps archived and made available in other environments so that it can be open to adaptation?

All software should be considered a public good. All software code must be archived and after a short period (2-5 years) made public domain.

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Antagonism in response to:

Facilitating social recognition for good deeds and public shaming for selfish ones. Digital social conformism.

"Good" and "bad" are relative to communities; this will cause overt conflict between communities with different beliefs.

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Antagonism in response to:

In an ideal world, we wouldn't need volunteers. At the moment, they're crucial to a functioning society.

Then let's construct civic innovations that make them irrelevant! That's the point of this game!

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Investigation in response to:

To what extent are these movies partisan horsetrading rather than true desire to oppress? IMHO, this corruption is deep in practice of power

Politicians might be biased, but people voting against a referendum on gay marriage are tangibly, directly oppressing other people.

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Momentum in response to:

Could all of that effort be tracked so that the volunteers are in-kind donating their effort in exchange for something else from company?

A system for collective disaster response that tracks volunteer labor, which will be compensated at a living wage from those responsible.

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Investigation in response to:

Don't we only call them volunteers because we think money is only meaningful form of recompense? What if they're compensated w/ sth else?

Who's doing the compensation? The point is that companies who damage public goods should pay (in some way) for their repair.

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Momentum in response to:

I agree completely. Expect more conflict in the future.

AR systems which visualize community conflicts (gentrification, hate crimes) and allows you to more easily participate in conflict.

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Momentum in response to:

antagonistic volunteerism? Volunteers after Katrina criticized+embarassed official relief orgs by exposing their indifference/incompetence.

Replace leaders in official government relief organizations with leaders/groups of outperforming volunteer groups.

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Momentum in response to:

spaceships.

Colonization of low-earth orbit.

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Antagonism in response to:

Human rights might be seen as a codification of the Golden Rule. Small-scale democracies work when not all the same people win all the time.

People reliably form ingroups and outgroups that prevent the same people from not winning all the time in small (or large) democracies.

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Investigation in response to:

Rewarding them with what? We want children recognized as people and not commodities, right?

Money/reputation/more votes in direct democracy/more votes in curriculum selection system, anything that either incentivizes/selects leaders

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Investigation in response to:

Terrifying and plausible

The two words which capture almost all of this game.

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Investigation in response to:

The concept of redistributive justice may be relevant in this discussion.

Definitely! Community-centered/restorative justice is great for people, but what about corporations?

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Antagonism in response to:

Getting to LEO is expensive. Colonization would massively favour the extremely wealthy and have little or no benefit for others.

Once the wealthy all live in LEO, we won't have to deal with them planetside.

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Adaptation in response to:

Yes, companies who damage goods should pay, but many people (inc myself) enjoy volunteering. $$ doesn't motivate everyone, all the time

Compensate volunteers in money, or votes, or allocation of public funds (allow volunteers to divert money towards education, for example).

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Momentum in response to:

Lack of "universal service" in the digital age, without broad participation, service will targeted the connected, abandon the disconnected.

Access to computing power and the Internet should be considered a human right. 1 human = 1 GHz = 1 Mb/s.

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Momentum in response to:

Structure civilization around long term exploration and colonization of the stars.

Remove anything irrelevant to space exploration from public school curriculum, creating a generation of aerospace engineers and scientists.

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Investigation in response to:

With US having the strongest army, can any one simply target US with military forces?!

No nationstate can wage war against any other nationstate in a globally connected economy; all conflict is guerilla/attrition like Iraq

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Investigation in response to:

Corporations are also networks of individuals at root. How do we turn the disaster of the small groups into learning opp for everyone?

When civic innovations go wrong and networks of individuals do bad things, how can a justice system interact with the network?

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Investigation in response to:

How do you think this would effect the culture of raising children? Would it turn it more into a business?

Possibly -- but businesses are good at being profitable, and in this case the community controls what's considered profitable.

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Adaptation in response to:

Keep wide variety of extracurricular activities so we have more than one thing to live for. Otherwise aliens might find us boring.

Gamify space exploration curriculum, creating a wide variety of space-exploration-related extracurricular activities.

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Antagonism in response to:

This is my point! NO nation will start a war against another because of conflicts because nations are investing in their armed forces.

No, nations won't start wars because wars disrupt economies; all the economies are interconnected. Investment in military is irrelevant.

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Adaptation in response to:

No the adults control what is profitable, not the children, they become commodities. Would this not increase strain to meet arbitrary reqs?

Current adults create metrics of social benefit; they reward their parent generation based on how much benefit their children added.

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Antagonism in response to:

The whole point of volunteering is there is no personal benefit or compensation!

This allows corporations to exploit people's impulse to help the environment to cushion losses from catastrophies. It's free labor.

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Antagonism in response to:

What do you think would happen if all of the money moved to space? Would that not engender a period of extreme chaos as we tried to rebuild?

With the wealthy in space, the service-oriented economy now fuels a vast logistical network of space tech, leading to economic growth

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Antagonism in response to:

Economic development has no link to armed forces investments. Its one of the pillars of great nations along with education and healthcare.

Economic development is inversely correlated with military engagement; there will never be military exchange between two economic powers.

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Investigation in response to:

How would who gets to create/adapt the metrics be decided? If there were static metrics there would be no growth

What sort of civic innovations would allow metrics of personal social benefit to exist?

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Antagonism in response to:

Harmful to whom? Isn't this orthogonal to the company's benefit? Isn't the answer to clean it up AND discipline the spiller?

If the "discipline" is worth less than the labor value of the volunteer effort, the company avoids paying the full cost of cleanup.

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Antagonism in response to:

So offending corporations have to pay in other ways. In the example of an oil spill, the company can pay $$ to the restoration of the area

If the cost of the fine is less than the labor-value of the volunteer effort, the volunteers are donating their labor to the company.

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Momentum in response to:

Link to slow money groups at the local level, start local/regional blogs to promote good ideas for new enterprises.

Use Foresight engine to find good ideas for new enterprises; use another civic tech to collectively fund and start them as co-owned goods.

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Antagonism in response to:

How can an economy thrive if citizens dont feel safe in international relations?

Economies in the global market thrive from being interconnected; warfare and militarism interferes with this.

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Antagonism in response to:

Orbital millionaires can largely distance themselves from the daily needs of the populace, treat people as slaves instead of fellow humans.

This is already the case.

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Antagonism in response to:

Yes, but the value of the cleanup itself is non-zero, so that's a moot point. Harming the company is not the most important goal!

Cleanup is a good someone must pay for: is it the company that spilled oil that pays, or the citizens & communities affected by the spill?

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Momentum in response to:

The company must pay way more than just the labour and rebuild costs, or they'll think they can get away with it again.

Destroy companies that commit environmental atrocities. Dismantle their structure, nationalize any essential parts and profits.

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Investigation in response to:

Not nearly so much as it would be when they are not among us. At least right now the process of getting goods involves human contact!

Does the 1% do their own shopping in person?

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Momentum in response to:

I would argue that contamination is a debt that must be paid, and paying it sooner accrues less interest, regardless of who pays the bill.

(This seems tangential to the original card, but) Companies that commit long-term harm must be held accountable, not volunteers.

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Antagonism in response to:

Unless it was actually an accident. We need to build a compassionate society, as well as an efficient one.

The problem with compassion towards corporations is that the corporations that exploit that will survive, and those that don't will die.

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Investigation in response to:

They talk to someone, even just a servant . Why would you pay to ship a servant to orbit when you could just send an automated ship?

Does talking to a servant make the 1% better in some quantifiable sense?

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Antagonism in response to:

Fixating on punishment to the detriment of the entire system is a net ill. Volunteers are providing value at zero cost to the community.

Volunteerism has a cost: the value of the labor of volunteers, and the opportunity cost of those people not doing another thing.

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Investigation in response to:

In exactly the same way that being exposed to passive resistance makes dictatorial regimes better, yes it does.

How exactly?

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Investigation in response to:

If the environmental or social atrocity could have been avoided, then the company should be destroyd. Companies have responsibilities, too

How would avoidability be determined?

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