Seven Softwares We Would Like To See
If any of these exist, let us know, we will use them.
- Alan Watts Layer:
A program that allows you to combine, effortlessly, any podcast, especially Alan Watts, with ambient music so it you can listen to ambient music of your choice under the Alan Watts. (This could just really be an alan watts layer on spotty, or apple music, or whatever streaming music monopoly wins
2. Sketchpad
A program that lets you draw on your desktop, like imagine paintbrush, but you can jut draw directly on the desktop.
3. Assholes In A Theater
Twitter feed layered over netflix. This seems to exist in chinese, so just in english.
4. Cooperative Credit Union
A credit union financial tech software program that gives you a digital wallet, and loans the money out to cooperative businesses.
5. Collective Kitchen Booking
Neighborhood specific applications for booking use of collective kitchens
6. Cognitive Map
Visualizations of social power structures embedded into architecture. imagine being able to looks at a building, and seeing, who owns and controls it
7. EnergyTracker
likewise software that lets individuals visualize their net contribution or extraction to global energy systems combined with an option to exercise and have the kinetic energy of exercise be taken for a net contribution, and displayed in a dishonest way so as to make people believe that their workouts are saving the world, when in fact, what is saving the world is heightened consciousness of energy consumption. (however losing weight and walking also produces gigantic positive externalities)
Digital Art by Ben Shepard
