Dear Santa,
This year I want something for the world. I want to bring a bright future to the people of today so that our lives can be better and more fulfilling. There are technologies and areas of science that just need a little help to flourish into the kinds of things that can revolutionize our daily lives. I have two things I really want this year Santa.
My first wish is for a tomorrow where the human experience is truly enhanced. I want a world where my best friend can be a sentient robot, where I can visualize my dreams and memories on my iPhone, where I can surf the web and learn new languages using just my thoughts and where I can enhance things like my ability to think critically or recover from ailments by altering the code of my existence.
We live at a time where if we dedicate the time and resources into areas of science like artificial intelligence, biotechnologies and neurotechnologies we can literally start to make our dreams become a reality. My hope is that these opportunities will free people from the limitations nature puts on us and bring the world together in a new way.
My second wish is that I want to live in a world where the laws and rules are rational and make sense. I want a life where I can be a citizen of the world, not bound by the borders of nations. I wish for a world where governance embraces the digital reality of our times and evolves as the technology does.
We are a digital society and we should govern ourselves like one. We could and should be doing things like creating education policy that leverages customized software interfaces built on fifty thousand years of human evolution where we learned by mentorship and not classrooms. We can use S&T to create a smarter world, a more rational world and a more stable world, but in order to do that we have to change, we have to embrace a future of digital governance and evolve it.
I know these are big wishes, but that is why I need your help.
If we do it right the world will come together and we will realize our future today.
Charlie