1) hacking the money system. The single evil hallucination that holds the future in check right now is the belief that the goverment issued and World Bank/IMF approved notes representing value actually represent value. Money is a virtual reality. It always was. We went from barter to symbol. But now, money is TRULY virtual, it's bits and bytes floating around the world, online, at the speed of light representing nothing, not even a shared hallucinated social consensus, because the average person has no access to its real meaning, what it means to be a quant on wall street, what it means to use mathematical complexity theory to buy and trade abstract units of ownership in companies that might be making microchips potato chips or nuclear bombs in a split second, in a micro second. If you want to change the world, change the money system.
But remember, when we say "Change the world" it sounds like "change your diapers" or change your mind." World - the word world - is deceptive, it sounds like a unit. In fact it's a complex system of several billion needy souls, an eco-system, various gene pools ad infinitum. It's large, diverse, and multiplex... not ONE at all. So honor diversity. And bring it into the world of resource exchange.
Other than that, watch for nanotechnology... and keep on dancing...
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