Halcyon Imagines

Imagining that we'd always lived in a networked age...

 

...and could have always communicated digitally.  Would we have better records of the truth, or would we lose life's enriching mysteries?

Imagining the coming of the singularity...

 

...some are for, some against, many sceptical that it could ever arrive.

Imagining a worldwide, peaceful "civilian surge"...

Some call it The Shift, others call it Blessed Unrest, and still others talk of a "civilian surge" - the idea that around the world people who have hugely different access to opportunities and wealth nonetheless inhabit an increasingly common environment in which mobile and other emerging technologies can tell protestors and poor farmers and street kids about how various aspects of their life could be improved.

Imagining being able to answer when asked, "so what does it all mean..."

...at least as regards the impact of exponential technological growth.

Imagining children - and adults - being given time and help with tools

The Tinkering School allows children to build, experiment, become deeply immersed in and committed to projects (decoration has a special and surprising role to play).  Do many mainstream schools (still) offer such opportunities?  If not, how can we help them do so?  Imagine too how many adults remain secretly and ashamedly short of confidence about their own practical skills, and how such an approach might help them too. 

Imagining how technology might improve education

This Dallas Twitter Experiment is likely to be just a forerunner of innovations to come.