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* Students (at schools) to interview people (e.g., colleagues, teachers, parents, senior citizens) with questions around milliongenerations to be developed. Intergenerational dialogue would add value, young generations views would be most valuable.
* Students (at schools) to interview people (e.g., colleagues, teachers, parents, senior citizens) with questions around milliongenerations to be developed. Intergenerational dialogue would add value, young generations views would be most valuable.
* Ask leading intellectuals, famous smart people
** record their answers e.g., on film
** or keep their answers anonymous
* Interesting examples
** [http://www.6billionothers.org/ Interviews of six billion others]
** [http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/DoYouThinkScience/DoYouThink.htm Do you think science can understand everything?]
*** Amazing result. All these smart physicists and engineers. And none have read Popper. (What a shame to the profession.) None able to reflect on the an eternal difference between description and reality, theory and truth. But that's a diffferent story.
*** Could ask [http://www.semiconductorfilms.com Semiconductor films / Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt] if they'd be interested in asking people questions like "Will there be millions of generations in the future?"




Revision as of 22:47, 30 July 2009

Ideas

  • Try a few things / leave it open to participants.


  • Students (at schools) to interview people (e.g., colleagues, teachers, parents, senior citizens) with questions around milliongenerations to be developed. Intergenerational dialogue would add value, young generations views would be most valuable.
  • Ask leading intellectuals, famous smart people
    • record their answers e.g., on film
    • or keep their answers anonymous


  • Could also include things like
    • "for how much longer do you think humans can live on earth?"
    • "how would you act if you lived for a million years?" or
    • imagine receiving a call from someone living in a million generations
    • as well as questions already posted on this site
Preference to stick to something that conveys the change of perspective in the assumption, but no dogma. Hope that robust interview questions will emerge.


  • Could also result in a video montage of sequences of
    • short questions from different people, such as (examples!)
      • The sun provides energy for billions more years
      • Life on earth is expected to go on while the sun shines
      • Knowledges make our lives easier and only knowledge allows many of us to exist at the same time.
      • Imagine that what we know now is still known a million generations from now (and a lot more)
      • How can we create conditions that enable knowledge to be passed along all the time that life is possible?
      • Save the earth? The earth will stay!
    • contrasted with quotes from people who doubt civilization can continue much longer on earth
    • and the realization that leaving the planet will mean a miserable ending for those left behind (i.e., almost everybody) and would mean that we give up a living space that can still support life for a very long time prematurely
    • quotes from those who show the beauty of the planet e.g., Carl Sagan or the Home movie
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