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Well, hello there! Smile. Good timing.

Yes, I have had lots of thoughts out here, most fantastical with occasional but incomplete reality testing.

There is a great deal of buzz these days over things combining, converging and emerging, and the implications, in science and technology. Networks of networks, complex adaptive systems of complex adaptive systems, scales, speeds, compositions and reach unimaginable, relentless descriptive processions analogous to meme-etic black holes and supernovas. An unending, though at times incomprehensible, cornucopia upon which to feast. If only it was available, and usable, to everyone. On the other hand, the deepest secrets of the universe, and even invisibility cloaks, have little chance of perceptual primacy if water, food and shelter are unavailable.

Fantastical thoughts aside, there is a need, unfortunately, even greater than the cognate to the never ending apocalyptic trinity of diseases, disaster and dislocations. The Humanitarian Technology Review and Humanitarian Technology Challenge are fantastic beginnings. Is it time for a Humanitarian Science and Technology entity (i.e., Foundation, Society), a network of networks focused with a Sci-Fi imagination and creativity, an ARPA-esque vision and urgency, a Burning Man self-reliance and self-expression as community, but with impact closer to Earth and on the least fortunate. Extraordinary potential patrons and participants abound. I wonder…