How people relate with technology has changed, and this is in the process of changing people.

People are not robots, while the technologies we devise and employ are robotic as a matter of course.

Corporations are robots.  Governments are robots.  Computers are robots.  Robots do what people instruct them to do.  Until the robots grow too big.  Then the machines become too complex.  And run amok in unanticipated ways.  Or simply fall apart.  Which kind of sucks when our lives depend on our robotic systems remaining operational and under control.

Fixing Broken Robots: a transliminal perspective is a well-researched look into some of the issues surrounding our society’s most pressing challenges in relating with the complex systems on which we depend.

This book’s first volume is available in electronic form as of January 2012.  It lays out the vast array of interconnected challenges we face, as well as describes many of the “solutions” to these attempted over the last forty years by business, academic, and governing organizations.  The version available is not a slick finished product, but rather is a rough “seed” that I am prepared to grow in whatever direction my readers show support for.

You can purchase this document for the price of a cup of coffee by clicking here. I can’t keep writing without coffee.

Presently, support has been shown for preparing a document summarizing what strategies naturally emerge from our total-system challenges to show the most potential for “holistically” addressing these.

This piece is scheduled for release prior to the end of February 2012, and focuses on the intersection of collective intelligence, permaculture, microbusiness innovation, distributed manufacturing, and technological disobedience.  As well as other stuff.