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The Everything manifesto: A thought experiment for the next billion seconds

IAM
16 min readNov 27, 2019

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We are here.

Intro: What is Everything?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE WORLD WAS DIFFERENT?

Part 1: What is a billion?

FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE ARE BIG DATA EXTRACTION COMPANIES

Part 2: A billion (Everything) question

WHAT IF WE COLLECTIVELY DECIDED TO SPEND OUR TIME, ATTENTION, MONEY AND USE DATA IN A DIFFERENT WAY?

Part 3: Changing “Climate Change”

WHAT IF WE CHANGE “CLIMATE CHANGE” TO “ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY”?

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ORGANISATIONS AND CITIZENS NEED TO CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF CHANGE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH “CLIMATE CHANGE”.

Part 4: A call for ‘designers’

THIS MANIFESTO IS A META-BRIEF TO DESIGN TOOLS AND REDESIGN SYSTEMS

Part 5: The ten hypothetical questions

HOW CAN ORGANISATIONS, DESIGNERS AND CITIZENS IMPROVE THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMANS AND EVERYTHING?

E 🌀 Identity

V 🌀 Time

E 🌀 Problems

R 🌀 Scale

Y 🌀 Growth

T 🌀 Energy

H 🌀 Business models

I 🌀 Decisions

N 🌀 Learning

G 🌀 Design

E 🌀 Identity

What if we go beyond static binary mindsets and then understand human identities as dynamic and fluid spectra?

V 🌀 Time

What if we go beyond the obsession for nowness, newness, and short-termness and then apply long-term thinking to better understand and anticipate the social, ethical, and ecological implications of the ways we are using the internet(s)?

E 🌀 Problems

What if we go beyond solutionism and making everything easy, simple, fast by default and then make visible the unpleasant consequences of the vast social and technological systems and infrastructures that make everyday computing possible, embracing the natural and challenging beauty of complex systems with accountability?

R 🌀 Scale

What if we go beyond using the invisible algorithms connecting billions of black mirrors and black boxes to make billions for a few billionaires, and then explore, anticipate and understand the ethical implications that shaping reality for billions of humans has, with an equivalent scale of responsibility?

Y 🌀 Growth

What if we go beyond becoming growth, progress and productivity fans and then start adopting alternative ways to define success such as their contribution to societal wellbeing and sustainable prosperity?

T 🌀 Energy

What if we go beyond producing devices with built-in obsolescence and ignoring the scale of the energy consumption that interconnected physical infrastructures enabling digital platforms and services demand, and then exponentially reduce their e-waste, natural resources consumption and carbon emissions?

H 🌀 Business models

What if we go beyond abusing opaque business models that commodify citizens’ time, attention and data, risking individual and collective privacy and then implement ethical, transparent and fair alternatives, delivering real value to society?

I 🌀 Decisions

What if we go beyond understanding humans only as consumers or users, and then design for and with citizens who have rights and duties, promoting digital literacy, tolerance and solidarity and enabling everyone to make better and more conscious decisions individually and collectively?

N 🌀 Learning

What if we go beyond the obsolete industrial approach to education and then cultivate the potential of life-long learning with collective critical hope at its core

G 🌀 Design

What if we go beyond the selfishness of human-centered-design methodologies and singularity mindsets, aiming then for holistic Earth-driven-design approaches that lead to plurality and solidarity?

Part 6: The five key values

🎯 humbleness

🎯 responsibility & accountability

🎯 plurality

🎯 empathy & tolerance

🎯 solidarity

Design for Humbleness

Design for Responsibility & Accountability

LET THE FEAR OF LETTING FEAR DICTATE THE FUTURES OF THE PLANET DICTATE THE FUTURES OF THE PLANET

Design for Plurality

“WHEN WE HEAR “THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR”, LET US REMEMBER: THE PLURALITY IS HERE”

Design for Empathy & Tolerance

Design for Solidarity

THE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO IS A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCIES

Part 7: A final reflection

Let’s remember we are in the same boat, and that is why Everything 🌍 matters.

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