BaltFut, Baltimore in the Future Tense

BaltFut, Baltimore in the Future Tense

For several years now “The Big Moon Dig” has been working on reviving human space exploration using 21st century processes, but – when you can hear the gun fire from your computer terminal it is time to do something --.

Since the unrest last spring, we have been working on applying the latest science to the problems of Baltimore and to the world. Fortunately there are now a lot of breath taking insights available from new science that we can apply to our problems. Of course these arguments start out technical and rather complex.

Our task at the Hackathon 2015 is to condense some of the material we have developed into a TED style talk that is accessible to the general public. This requires a few really good graphics supported by a heartfelt and concise talk running 10 or 18 minutes.

Our specialty is the big-picture, which we find mysteriously missing at the moment. You can find endless stories of zombies or machines run amuck, but just try to find stories of real people facing the real problems of the 21st century with both heart and mind.

Our efforts to date are available at:

Big Moon Dig / Essay http://bigmoondig.com/Essays/BMDWhyWhat.html

These efforts include a video we made for a contest this fall on solutions for the California drought. In the big-picture, California and Baltimore are on the same planet.

This fall our task is to develop materials for the University of Baltimore course “Divided Baltimore” ( http://blogs.ubalt.edu/dividedbaltimore/ ) and the MIT Course “ULab: Transforming Business, Society, & Self” ( https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:MITx+15.671x+3T2015/info ). Our most important activities this weekend are to practice explaining our insights clearly and developing contacts.

This work is in the category of “The Big Picture”, but the closest you have listed is “Seafarer’s Choice”.

Tom Riley TomRiley@WoodwareDesigns.com The Big Moon Dig

Update Sunday morning:

I am now rewriting the material into the form of a series of short TED talks. Each will have a few good graphics and a straight forward exploration. The first will setup up the idea and the last will give the specific proposals to address the problem. I now have a first draft for the first TED talk.