murderslastcrow
November 10th, 2009, 10:41 PM
It's no secret- the world today is not a wonderful place. There are many problems in our social, economic, and political spheres. And, just like KDE 4.3 or Gnome 3, although we may be comfortable with the way things are, we need to change.
However, unlike KDE 4.3 and Gnome 3, we need to take peoples' opinions and ideas into account, and improve upon or create alternatives for systems already in place.
Some ideas like the Venus Project (given an honorable mention in the film Zeitgeist) by Jacque Fresco aim to revolutionize current social systems in order to open up new and better ways of living and managing the Earth's resources.
The main problem is that, although people may agree that there needs to be change, and although groups may protest in the streets, the necessary changes seem to take much too long to organize or don't seem in high enough demand. People end up sitting down to their same old lifestyle after observing these ideas, and get back to electing a representative who thinks he knows what's best, and people all across the world are still volunteering to be part of a system controlled by too few people.
Life is busy. It's hard to make time for revolutionizing society. However, GNU/Linux is a great example of what many people can do if they do it in collaboration.
So I propose to modernize and make new ideas more convenient to come across and implement, I wish to start a brainstorming website specifically for 'the world's problems,' or 'popular ideas' for society.
This way, regardless of which nation you're a part of, you can submit your idea, and propose solutions to be voted on by all members. If we have a large enough membership, it could be a great social experiment that could set the stage for innovation in our social systems. At a core human level, this could show what we all think are good (popular) ideas, along with intellectual solutions in the footnotes being voted up or down based on their presentability.
These popular solutions could then go on to a forum or other section of the site for further discussion on the dynamics that should be accounted for to provide such ideas with success.
If governments, organizations, and news organizations take notice, it could become a democratic search for improvement on the human race.
Of course, this all sounds very optimistic and sensationalistic. I want your input on several points.
1. Do you even think it's a good idea? (if not, what would make it a good idea?)
2. Are there any obvious areas I should be addressing with design that I haven't mentioned/what ideas would you have to improve design over, say, vanilla ubuntu-brainstorm-layout?
3. Do you think people would get more involved if good ideas were made more evident to them, and voted up or down by a great deal of people? Why or why not?
4. This one is important- are there any sites you know of that are currently trying to accomplish this who should be mentioned, or some other method that would altogether be more successful?
However, unlike KDE 4.3 and Gnome 3, we need to take peoples' opinions and ideas into account, and improve upon or create alternatives for systems already in place.
Some ideas like the Venus Project (given an honorable mention in the film Zeitgeist) by Jacque Fresco aim to revolutionize current social systems in order to open up new and better ways of living and managing the Earth's resources.
The main problem is that, although people may agree that there needs to be change, and although groups may protest in the streets, the necessary changes seem to take much too long to organize or don't seem in high enough demand. People end up sitting down to their same old lifestyle after observing these ideas, and get back to electing a representative who thinks he knows what's best, and people all across the world are still volunteering to be part of a system controlled by too few people.
Life is busy. It's hard to make time for revolutionizing society. However, GNU/Linux is a great example of what many people can do if they do it in collaboration.
So I propose to modernize and make new ideas more convenient to come across and implement, I wish to start a brainstorming website specifically for 'the world's problems,' or 'popular ideas' for society.
This way, regardless of which nation you're a part of, you can submit your idea, and propose solutions to be voted on by all members. If we have a large enough membership, it could be a great social experiment that could set the stage for innovation in our social systems. At a core human level, this could show what we all think are good (popular) ideas, along with intellectual solutions in the footnotes being voted up or down based on their presentability.
These popular solutions could then go on to a forum or other section of the site for further discussion on the dynamics that should be accounted for to provide such ideas with success.
If governments, organizations, and news organizations take notice, it could become a democratic search for improvement on the human race.
Of course, this all sounds very optimistic and sensationalistic. I want your input on several points.
1. Do you even think it's a good idea? (if not, what would make it a good idea?)
2. Are there any obvious areas I should be addressing with design that I haven't mentioned/what ideas would you have to improve design over, say, vanilla ubuntu-brainstorm-layout?
3. Do you think people would get more involved if good ideas were made more evident to them, and voted up or down by a great deal of people? Why or why not?
4. This one is important- are there any sites you know of that are currently trying to accomplish this who should be mentioned, or some other method that would altogether be more successful?