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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">transhumanism is consistent with the manifesto — nurture now, transcend, or perhaps redefine, later as the understanding of CAS provides alternative, directed, evolution.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, at 5:21 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><p class="qt-MsoNormal">What about the goal of transcending these error-prone and fragile containers? Posthumanism has always been the driver for me.<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><div><div style="border-right-color:currentcolor;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:medium;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:medium;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:medium;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-top-color:rgb(225, 225, 225);border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1pt;padding-top:3pt;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in;"><p class="qt-MsoNormal"></p><div><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Prof David West<br></div><div> <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 4, 2023 3:27 PM<br></div><div> <b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br></div><div> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion<br></div><p></p></div></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;">Merle,</span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;">From the book I am currently finishing:</span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span class="qt-size"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16pt;">Manifesto</span></span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="qt-size"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Every aspect of human life — how we work, play, live, and love; how we define our relationships with each other and with our environment — have been, and continue to be, shaped by computers
and the software that drives them.</span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Those entrusted with the power and the responsibility of creating computer-software artifacts and systems must recognize that their efforts transcend simple careerism and professionalism
and rise to the level of a calling — one guided by a set of Core Principles:</span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">I-</span></span></span><span class="qt-size"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Humans First. Everything is done on behalf of human beings, by human beings.</span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">II-</span></span></span><span class="qt-size"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Businesses, organizations, governments, and associations are <i>Living Systems </i>in exactly the same way as socio-cultural, biological, and ecological systems are <i>Living Complex Adaptive Systems.</i></span></span></span><br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">III-</span></span></span><span class="qt-size"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Effort should focus on the production and introduction of appropriate ‘artifacts’ into <i>Living Systems</i>, to improve, enhance, or amend them.</span></span></span><br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1in;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">IV-</span></span></span><span class="qt-size"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Computer-software artifacts, in all cases, must be designed to augment, extend, enhance, or support human abilities.</span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-size"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16pt;">* * * * * * *</span></span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">The concepts and principles of Software Engineering coupled with the assumption of development as a Production Process governed by rigid Project Management practices; that have dominated
development for the past fifty plus years are inadequate and often antithetical to the goals of this manifesto.</span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">They must be replaced by a new discipline, a new art:</span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span class="qt-size"><i><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16pt;">Living Systems Development</span></span></span></i></span><br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;">davew</span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, at 3:30 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:<br></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;" id="qt-qt"><div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></p></div><div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">From: <b>Lisa Schirch</b> <<a href="mailto:lschirch@nd.edu" target="_blank">lschirch@nd.edu</a>><br></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 12:20 PM<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Subject: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">To: <span class="qt-font"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Verdana", sans-serif;">Merle Lefkoff</span></span></span><br></p></div></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<br></p></div><div><div><p class="qt-qt-msonormal">I am pleased to invite you to the <b>Designing Tech for Social Cohesion Conference on 23-25 February 2023 at San Francisco's Fisherman’s Wharf. </b> This conference is bringing together tech innovators, tech critics, and the peacebuilding
community to explore new tech platforms useful to building social cohesion, including individual agency to participate in civic life, building bridges between divided groups, and supporting citizens in relating to governing institutions.<br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="qt-font"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:white;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-image:none;background-size:auto;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;">Click here for the </span></span></span><a href="https://techandsocialcohesion.org/conference/" target="_blank"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;">Full
Conference Agenda</span></span></a><span class="qt-font"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:white;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-image:none;background-size:auto;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;">. And </span></span></span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-tech-for-social-cohesion-tickets-473427643827" target="_blank"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;">click here to register.</span></span></a><span class="qt-font"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:white;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-image:none;background-size:auto;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br></p></div><p class="qt-qt-msonormal"> <br></p><p class="qt-qt-msonormal">Please pass on this invitation to your networks. <br></p><div><div><div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="background-color:white;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-image:none;background-size:auto;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;"><span style="color:white;"><span class="size" style="font-size:1pt;">Join us to explore a new generation of tech products that offer affordances and algorithms that promote prosocial content.
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