Thursday, November 27, 2008

What I Want

I want out of this current depression.

I want my 250k out of life, enough for a home and an annuity to secure the necessities.

I want meaningful work that uses all of my talents, and peers and coworkers who appreciate them.

I want to accelerate the demise of the publishing industry so that it is done within a decade. I want the hierarchical (mainstream) media to disappear on my watch. I want to wipe out the hierarchical DNS.

I want to introduce people to sortition as a viable political system so they know what real democracy looks like.

I want to wipe out the totalitarian web, putting power back in the hands of readers and users instead of solely in writers and programmers, and introduce sharing.

I want to fundamentally alter how programmers are paid for software to both secure a living for them and to align it with the ascendant Attention Economy.

I want to secure a place for designers so they are esteemed and appreciated now and forever.

I want to revolutionize computing and to advance the state of the art (practically frozen in 1980) by 4 decades.

I've known exactly how to do these things for years now. Except the first.