Shells

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Not long ago I launched an idea called Triadic Philosophy. It is summarized in Triadic Philosophy 100 Aphorisms available at the Kindle Store.. It grew into several more books. “Cybercommunity — A Handbook” seeks to lay out a community concept based on the values of tolerance, helpfulness, democracy and non-idolatry, integral and car-free.

We have established that a cybercommunity is an enclosed city of 10,000 on no more than four levels in an area of no more than a mile from side to side. That it is almost entirely car-free. And that it is essentially a matrix which can support a highly flexible iteration of space, enabling the mass production of modular components which can be customized and altered almost at will.

This section will flag the skin of the cybercity. The cybercity may have many shapes:

But each cybercity will have a shell. As the word implies the shell is a protective exterior which enables the soft interior to operate without fear of disruption. The shell of a cybercommunity is like that of a tortoise. It presents a lovely exterior to the world but it is also nearly impregnable.

I live in a tortoise, said Adam.

Oh really.

I enter him by his feet. He looks heavy. But this tortoise is more strong than heavy, more flexible in some ways than the clunky tortoise you are used to. When heavy winds and rains pour down it seems to buckle, but that is merely its tolerance coming into play.

You live inside a tortoise?

I do, happily. Everything I have is either mine alone within my private space, or mine and everyone elses in areas where I can compute, dream, sit and talk, investigate among experts, listen to classes, and play basketball at my limited level.

I don’t understand all this.

You will. It took me a while.

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The technology needed to achieve a cybercommunity is essentially three things:

Creating a garment or shell to enclose a treasured area that needs protection from the elements.

Achieving such strength in light components that assembly avoids the clunky and fixed and environmentally-negative effects of current solutions. No falling glass. No concrete to stub your foot upon.

And:

Making giant strides in the technology of iteration of spaces, so that the sense of a city is more akin to sets on a stage than immovable buildings.

The ultimate sense of a cybercommunity is of graceful security, stable passage and beautiful encounters of all sorts — with one’s exclusive privacy, with graded communal areas and with the immediate and farther areas.

Designers and architects can have a field day creating shells. A shell can enable the development of a custom solution for each cybercommunity. If it is by an ocean where weather and flooding could be damaging, the shell will be of one sort, if out in a desert the shell will be very different. More similar will be the interiors which all require a matrix whose components should ideally be common to any matrix in the world. The same applies to the bare bones of various spaces.

Can you imagine the excitement when it becomes standard to create shells of massive potential to protect spaces and systems that require the freedom to breathe, the security to stretch, all the things a human being needs to develop in the world?

Once the cybercommunity idea takes hold, the notion of a frontier being a human benchmark for every person rather than some romantic characterization of lone independence will take hold. The iteration of employment for all taking part in the evolution of cybercommunities will further validate that in the future the value of all will become more and more equal in reality.

What a leap this skin will be!

It is an invitation to a wedding of art and technology such as has not yet been seen.

This handbook is meant to accompany Planning and Designing a Good Future: What to Strive for and What to Avoid http://buff.ly/1F4DU5V