<div dir="ltr">Not bad, though it assumes a rationality and willingness to release control (more precisely, accept outside control) that China's leaders have, in recent years, demonstrated the opposite of.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 7:57 PM Jose Cordeiro via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Extropy friends,</span><br></div></div></div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyahoo_quoted_4157595974"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyahoo_quoted_3206086924"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yahoo_quoted_3520001304"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydp695f935cyahoo_quoted_3475693976"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yahoo_quoted_2983007341"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yiv4915587461"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yiv4915587461ydp7cb223d3yahoo_quoted_3291019602"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yiv4915587461ydp7cb223d3yiv8583513958"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Several from The Millennium Project (Jerome Glenn, Ted Gordon, Elizabeth Florescu, Veronica Agreda and myself) have entered the fascinating World Build 2045 competition organized by the Future of Life Institute (led by MIT professor Max Tegmark and funded by Elon Musk, Jaan Tallin and other luminaries) that calls for: 1) a timeline from 2022 to 2045 with events and data points; 2) short description of a day in the life in 2045 (vignettes); 3) Answers to 13 questions about the future; and 4) an art/media piece.</span></div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Our entry is at: <a shape="rect" href="https://worldbuild.ai/W-0000000468/" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://worldbuild.ai/W-0000000468/</span></a> scroll down to see the time line, scroll down further the see the two vignettes of a day in the life in 2045, scroll down further to see our answers to 13 questions about the future; and scroll down further to see our futuristic 5-minute video on 2045.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> At any point you can scroll back to the top and click on “Feedback” to include your comments. This is very important to improve our entry and move up the competition during the next two weeks, please. So, kindly click on "Feedback" and add your views to our entry 468, we appreciate your feedback eternally, please: <span><a shape="rect" href="https://worldbuild.ai/W-0000000468/" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://worldbuild.ai/W-0000000468/</span></a></span></span></div></div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509yqtfd15475"><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font size="2"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Futuristically yours,</span><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" style="background-color:inherit"><br clear="none"></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.22;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2" style="background-color:inherit"> La vie est belle!</font></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD </span></font><font id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yiv4915587461ydp7cb223d3yiv8583513958ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_489658" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yiv4915587461ydp7cb223d3yiv8583513958ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_489657">(<a href="http://www.cordeiro.org" target="_blank">www.cordeiro.org</a></span></font><font id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yiv4915587461ydp7cb223d3yiv8583513958ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_495431" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509ydp1dad84e9yiv3205441987ydpb1ab8e13yiv4915587461ydp7cb223d3yiv8583513958ydpe077688fyui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503237199187_495430">)</span></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><span><a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Cordeiro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Cordeiro</a></span><a shape="rect"></a><br clear="none"></span></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="gmail-m_7363679718481927667ydp4a3e978dyiv9759099312ydp3b06c3efyiv6048240509yqtfd03356">
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