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Blueprint for Utopia
BLUEPRINT FOR UTOPIA Bibliography: (other books that may blow your mind)
BRAIN SEX – The Real Difference Between Men and Women by Anne Moir and David Jessel – Did you know that the sex of a fetus is not determined at conception, but about 6 weeks later? Did you know that the sex of a human fetus is determined not by the XX or XY genetic blueprint, but by the hormonal bath the fetus is exposed to during its growth? Did you know that by exposing the human fetus to specific hormonal baths at specific times that adult behaviors can be created and determined? Did you know that if your mother likes kinky sex that you are less likely to be a bully? (Phthalates and other chemicals released by most plastic sex toys seem to have a calming influence on male babies exposed to them in the womb so that they are less aggressive in their play behavior.)
MILLENNIAL PROJECT, THE – Colonizing The Galaxy In Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage – This book is an orgy of wild-ass ideas on the future. For each of his ideas that make me think: "No, that will never work," Savage has another idea that gets me thinking, "Wait, we should be building that NOW to see if it works!"
OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH – by R. Buckminster Fuller – Sort of an introduction to the thinking of Fuller – His short history lesson on The Great Pirates is worth the price of admission. One of his arguments is that humanity (or as I like to say, huwomanity) lost control of technology around the time of the First World War.
THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES – Ray Kurzweil – The central argument here is that people will lose control of technology in the next few decades (Wait, didn’t Kurzweil get the Fuller memo explaining that we have already lost control?) because of the exponential growth of machine intelligence. Ray further argues that mankind and machines will merge, until there is no longer any meaningful distinction between the two.
NEW RULES FOR THE NEW ECONOMY – by Kevin Kelly – Argues that The Network is the new central metaphor for understanding and prospering.
THE PASSIONATE STATE OF MIND – Eric Hoffer – I regard this as the best of Hoffer’s thinking – If you want PROFOUND, I regard this book on the level of Lao Tzu. In my opinion, our passions are what drives us, what makes us do what we do, when we do it. Hoffer has helped me get a handle on my own passions.
FASTER – James Gleick – The Acceleration Of Just About Everything – This is one of those books that I try to re-read every year or two to refresh myself on SPEED-UP, for inspiration, and for the occasional “take-away” that just may change my personal future for the better.
I SEEM TO BE A VERB – by R. Buckminster Fuller & Jerome Agel & Quentin Fiore – An explosion of ideas like future fireworks that keep going on and off in your mind after like fireflies.
{Good Luck with our future! Play nice. @hg47}
BRAIN SEX – The Real Difference Between Men and Women by Anne Moir and David Jessel – Did you know that the sex of a fetus is not determined at conception, but about 6 weeks later? Did you know that the sex of a human fetus is determined not by the XX or XY genetic blueprint, but by the hormonal bath the fetus is exposed to during its growth? Did you know that by exposing the human fetus to specific hormonal baths at specific times that adult behaviors can be created and determined? Did you know that if your mother likes kinky sex that you are less likely to be a bully? (Phthalates and other chemicals released by most plastic sex toys seem to have a calming influence on male babies exposed to them in the womb so that they are less aggressive in their play behavior.)
MILLENNIAL PROJECT, THE – Colonizing The Galaxy In Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage – This book is an orgy of wild-ass ideas on the future. For each of his ideas that make me think: "No, that will never work," Savage has another idea that gets me thinking, "Wait, we should be building that NOW to see if it works!"
OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH – by R. Buckminster Fuller – Sort of an introduction to the thinking of Fuller – His short history lesson on The Great Pirates is worth the price of admission. One of his arguments is that humanity (or as I like to say, huwomanity) lost control of technology around the time of the First World War.
THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES – Ray Kurzweil – The central argument here is that people will lose control of technology in the next few decades (Wait, didn’t Kurzweil get the Fuller memo explaining that we have already lost control?) because of the exponential growth of machine intelligence. Ray further argues that mankind and machines will merge, until there is no longer any meaningful distinction between the two.
NEW RULES FOR THE NEW ECONOMY – by Kevin Kelly – Argues that The Network is the new central metaphor for understanding and prospering.
THE PASSIONATE STATE OF MIND – Eric Hoffer – I regard this as the best of Hoffer’s thinking – If you want PROFOUND, I regard this book on the level of Lao Tzu. In my opinion, our passions are what drives us, what makes us do what we do, when we do it. Hoffer has helped me get a handle on my own passions.
FASTER – James Gleick – The Acceleration Of Just About Everything – This is one of those books that I try to re-read every year or two to refresh myself on SPEED-UP, for inspiration, and for the occasional “take-away” that just may change my personal future for the better.
I SEEM TO BE A VERB – by R. Buckminster Fuller & Jerome Agel & Quentin Fiore – An explosion of ideas like future fireworks that keep going on and off in your mind after like fireflies.
{Good Luck with our future! Play nice. @hg47}
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First published May 8, 2012
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If you like science fiction, DAUGHTER MOON is the best thing I've ever written, or ever will write. I know my limits. It's not as good as THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE, or DUNE, or even the flawed masterpiece STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. Sucks to be me. I rank it 4th on the Ultimate Sci-Fi Scale. (They say that novelists are even more egotistical than Hollywood Directors.) MOON is a high-tech sci-fi Matriarchy in Outer Space time-travel novel. "100 boys are not worth a woman's little finger."
In February, 2013, I unpublished all my eBooks except for DAUGHTER MOON. Everyone loves MOON; reaction to my other writing is: "Meh." [Sometime earlier this month, May, I put my eBooks back up.]
I was briefly infamous in the mid Nineties, when my publisher Longstreet Press sent out 150 blue bras to reviewers for the launch of my experimental novel BLUES DELUXE, which essentially defined me as a boob.
I use my Twitter handle for my writer's name now. Two years ago I momentarily went viral, when my #TwitterArt sequence of planes crashing into the Twin Towers got more than 10,000 ReTweets in a 24 hour period. No clue how that happened. Wish I did.
I pay the bills working in plastics extrusion. I run the graveyard shift where I work, although with this Super Recession things are so slow that it's turning into a part-time gig.
Look at the free samples for my novels; you will find out real quick if my style of writing works for you. I apologize for my incompetent Sales Pitch Pages.
Cheers!
Harv Griffin
@hg47
If you like science fiction, DAUGHTER MOON is the best thing I've ever written, or ever will write. I know my limits. It's not as good as THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE, or DUNE, or even the flawed masterpiece STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. Sucks to be me. I rank it 4th on the Ultimate Sci-Fi Scale. (They say that novelists are even more egotistical than Hollywood Directors.) MOON is a high-tech sci-fi Matriarchy in Outer Space time-travel novel. "100 boys are not worth a woman's little finger."
In February, 2013, I unpublished all my eBooks except for DAUGHTER MOON. Everyone loves MOON; reaction to my other writing is: "Meh." [Sometime earlier this month, May, I put my eBooks back up.]
I was briefly infamous in the mid Nineties, when my publisher Longstreet Press sent out 150 blue bras to reviewers for the launch of my experimental novel BLUES DELUXE, which essentially defined me as a boob.
I use my Twitter handle for my writer's name now. Two years ago I momentarily went viral, when my #TwitterArt sequence of planes crashing into the Twin Towers got more than 10,000 ReTweets in a 24 hour period. No clue how that happened. Wish I did.
I pay the bills working in plastics extrusion. I run the graveyard shift where I work, although with this Super Recession things are so slow that it's turning into a part-time gig.
Look at the free samples for my novels; you will find out real quick if my style of writing works for you. I apologize for my incompetent Sales Pitch Pages.
Cheers!
Harv Griffin
@hg47
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