"Big Hairy Fun Projects" /or/ "What To Do Next" ======================================================== A fuzzy-formal justified reasoning system for use as an external prosthesis when debating complex systems and problem (eg, climate change, theology, globalization, unified field theory) Generalized, Open Source, software/network-based Improvements to Beaurocratic Systems Generalized function fitting to (or computational modeling of) arbitrary single-dimensional timestreams New telecommunications and network infrastructure/technologies at all scales Social Software ================= [A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy](http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html) [Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech?](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html) To read: - -