THE MEDIUM IS EVOLVING
LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ARE NOT PEOPLE
AI EXISTS IN MEDIA
Human communication has already moved from speech, writing and print to electronic and global digital networks. Physics may eventually reveal forms of communication we do not presently understand. Artificial intelligence is already creating relationships with forms of intelligence that are not human.
COMMUNITIES ARE TECHNOLOGIES FOR CIVILIZATION
MEDIA IS POLITICAL-IT SHAPES PERCEPTIONS
By selecting, arranging, and representing reality
MEDIA SHAPES YOUR PERCEPTIONS
*THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE*
POVERTY-AFFLUENCE-HUNGER
CLIMATE CHANGE-WAR-PANDEMIC
VULNERABILITY–EARTHQUAKE-TORNADO
INFLATION-CORRUPTION-INCOMPETENCE
KNOWLEDGE-IGNORANCE-STUPIDITY
*THE MESSAGE IS*
WHO WE ARE – WHAT WE CAN BECOME
WHOM SO WE TRUST – WHY
WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT THE WORLD
IT IS A REPRESENTATION OF THE WORLD
The current population of the Americas—North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America—is approximately 1,062,000,000.
WE ARE 8,314,913,500 HIGHLY DIVERSE, EQUALLY HUMAN LIVES
WE LIVE IN 2.5 TO 4.3 MILLION GEOGRAPHIC COMMUNITIES
WE SPEAK ABOUT 7200 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
THE UN RECOGNIZES 193 NATION STATES
MEDIA SHAPES YOUR EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD
Every image, headline, number, story, and sequence has been selected, framed, and produced
THE MESSAGE IN THE MEDIUM
ISN’T IN THE CONTENT-IT’S IN THE RULES
THE MESSAGE IS IN THE RULES
YOU MAY LISTEN
YOU MAY SPEAK
BUT YOU MAY NOT BE HEARD
THE MACHINE LISTENS TO YOU
IT RECORDS YOUR WORDS AND YOUR ATTENTION
TO SHAPE WHAT YOU SEE NEXT
AND THEREFORE WHAT YOU UNDERSTAND
*PAY TO PLAY*
MEDIA CREATES ILLUSIONS
INSTITUTIONS REFLECT COLLECTIVE POWER
Why are some rewarded?
Who do we listen to-why?
What is success?
What is Public Power?
WHO DETERMINES WHAT FACES CYCLE IN YOUR MEDIA?
WHAT IS
THE AGGREGATE WEALTH OF THE NATION
WHAT FACES DO YOU SEE REPEATED?
ELON MUSK-PETER THEIL-HARVEY WEINSTEIN-BIBI NETENYAHU-RICHARD NIXON-J.D. VANCE-JOE BIDEN, SYLVESTER STALLONE-NICOLE KIDMAN
WHAT ALGORITHMS ARE INFORMING YOUR DESIRE?
MANIPULATING YOUR EMOTIONS
WHAT PURPOSE?
HOW WE PERCEIVE REALITY IS SHAPED BY MEDIA
BUT THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE WE ARE MISSING
AND THE MESSAGE IS THAT YOUR PUBLIC REALITY
THIS ARTIFICIALLY CONSTRUCTED STORY
IS REALITY
GLOBAL ONLINE PLATFORMS
HAVE NO MORAL CODE
NO ETHICAL STANDARDS
NO ACCOUNTABILITY
SHOULD WE CHANGE THAT?
TO CHANGE THE PUBLIC REALITY
*RE-DESIGN THE MEDIUM*
The medium is now a structure
Through which the world is known
SOME EXAMPLES FOLLOW
THE NATIONAL DEBT EXCEEDS $40 TRILLION
YIELD ON A 10-YEAR US TREASURY NOTE IS 5.01%
WE ARE PAYING
2 trillion 4 billion dollars/year
($2,004,000,000,000/year)
INTEREST ON THE NATIONAL DEBT
MEDIA LEADS US
TO IGNORE THIS $2 TRILLION/YEAR COST
AND TO FORGET TO ASK
WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY WANT
WE ARE CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE
BY REWARDING GLOBAL WARMING
WE ARE AT RISK OF NUCLEAR WAR
BY ASSASSINATING LEADERS
ALLOWING
GENOCIDE
AND FAMINE
BUT WHAT DO WE WANT?
GLOBAL PROBLEMS
ARE NOT CREATED BY GLOBAL AUTHORITY
GLOBAL PROBLEMS
ARE CREATED BY LOCAL ACTIONS
ARE THESE RULES OF DEMOCRACY?
Decisions are made without public input, people everywhere are either quielty terrified or protesting.
THE MEDIUM SHOULD REFLECT OUR TRUTH
AND EVOLVE WITH US AS WE GROW
*POLITICS IS LOCAL*
TO REFLECT WHAT AND WHO WE ARE
THE MEDIUM MUST BE INCLUSIVE
Democracy IS NOT one authority imposing on another
DEMOCRACY IS INCLUSIVE CONSENSUS
(verifiable agreement with disagreement preserved)
IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY COMMUNITIES ARE AUTONOMOUS
In autonomous communities people set their own priorities
CHANGING THE GAME
WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF INTENTIONALLY DESIGNING
A NEW POLITICAL MEDIUM
Not merely creating better content
An information environment through which people in autonomous communities understand reality, form judgment, establish relationships, and coordinate action.
*COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS*
*CAN*
A DELIBERATELY DESIGNED MEDIUM
You just have to show up
On your community’s platform
Look and listen
Problems, ideas, concerns
Personal experience
Interact NATURALLY
Find common interests
Challenge assumptions
Question information
Find out what holds up
Define NEW actions
Negotiate
Challenge
Propose
Build consensus
A collective voice
AUTHORIZE collective action
Coordinate resource
KEEP TRACK OF THINGS
FIND AND USE COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND TALENT
With a MEDIUM that connects people with knowledge, relationships, tools, money and resources, and authority derived from inclusive democratic decision-making.
*COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS*
TECHNOLOGY FOR DEMOCRATIC INFRASTRUCTURE
A process through which people
share reliable information;
trade experiences and goods
identify uncertainties;
examine objectives, alternatives, risks, and consequences;
aggregate power
hear different points of view;
make agreements; define differences create boundaries
authorize common priorities ands set limits;
Coordinate resources and action;
preserve commitments and public records; and
hold institutions and representatives accountable
LIFE-SAVING COORDINATION IN EMERGENCIES
maintain communication
coordinate volunteers
communities support others
share vital resources
facilitate government efforts
WHAT HELP MEANS
Historically, philanthropy follows a familiar structure:
Funders identify a problem.
Organizations design an intervention.
Institutions allocate resources.
People receive services.
Success is measured in beneficiaries reached.
Relieving suffering does not change who holds the power to make consequential decisions
iNDEPENDENT COLLECTIVE ACTION
CAN is not principally an intervention delivered to underserved people.
CAN is infrastructure through which people cease to occupy the institutional category of “underserved beneficiaries.”
CAN participants define the problem, establish what is true, determine priorities, make consequential choices, coordinate resources, and hold institutions accountable.
PLAYAS DE TIJUANA
DEVELOPERS WANT TO BUILD 9 HIGHRISE TOWERS WITH 1600 UPSCALE APARTMENTS, AND A HOTEL AND SHOPPING MALL
IN A CONSERVATION AREA
Water & energy outages are already frequent
Traffic is already intolerable
RESIDENTS ARE OBJECTING
THE COMMUNITY ISN’T ORGANIZED
The community remains inside the process the development system already knows how to defeat: hearings, objections, petitions, scattered evidence, procedural delay and exhaustion.
A colonial relationship does not require malicious intent.
It exists whenever the authority to define problems, determine priorities, allocate resources and judge success remains outside the community, while the people living with the consequences are treated primarily as recipients of decisions made on their behalf.
Food, housing, healthcare, education and emergency assistance are essential.
But relief is not self-government.
A community should not have to remain powerless in order to qualify for help.
CAN makes collective agency itself the infrastructure
When we have a say in development decisions
Sustainable development
happens when communities sustain themselves
Global Warming Is Addressed
WHEN GLOBAL COOLING IS INDEPENDENTLY ACTIONABLE
Climate change is global, but actions that produce—or reverse—it are local
Communities must therefore be actors, not beneficiaries
Community consensus drives coordinated action
Homes can be affordable
Communities can be livable
Childcare can support parents
Parks can be preserved
Local economies can thrive
Government decisions can serve the governed
What people agree on—right now, moving the world
CAN’s architecture does not assume that today’s human institutions, today’s internet, or today’s electromagnetic communications represent the final form of intelligent relationship.
THE MEDIUM IS EVOLVING
CAN is not designed around any particular communications technology. CAN is an architecture through which autonomous communities can understand themselves, build consensus, create wealth, carry out plans, create shared identity and document provenance, negotiate relationships and boundaries, establish consent, coordinate consequential action and preserve autonomy.
COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS
TECHNOLOGY FOR CIVILIZATION
COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS
Communications infrastructure through which individuals can cooperate and establish legitimate relationships and coordinate consequential action without surrendering their autonomy.
CAN is beginning with geographically-bounded human communities–not as a limit, but as a way to understand how a meidum empowers the future..