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Future Thinkers is a media platform, community, and education portal dedicated to the evolution of society, technology, and consciousness. Helping you become better adapted to our uncertain future.

As seen in BBC, Forbes, World Economic Forum, and iTunes Top 40.

Created by Mike Gilliland and Euvie Ivanova.

Future Thinkers Mike Gilliland and Euvie Ivanova

    • Technology
    • 4.7 • 258 Ratings

Future Thinkers is a media platform, community, and education portal dedicated to the evolution of society, technology, and consciousness. Helping you become better adapted to our uncertain future.

As seen in BBC, Forbes, World Economic Forum, and iTunes Top 40.

Created by Mike Gilliland and Euvie Ivanova.

    How We're Using NFTs to Plant Trees at The Smart Village

    How We're Using NFTs to Plant Trees at The Smart Village

    Find out more about the Smart Village project: futurethinkers.org/village
    Participate in our very first NFT drop: futurethinkers.org/nft
    We're very excited to announce that on June 1 2021 we're dropping our first Smart Village NFT!
    If you are not familiar, NFTs stands for Non Fungible Tokens - it's a type of crypto token that is verifiably unique or rare, instead of being interchangeable in the way that dollars or Bitcoins are.
    They are a type of crypto token that has become popular with creators for releasing limited edition art or collectibles.
    But there is much more to NFTs than art (we actually think they will be revolutionary for creators of all kinds!).
    NFTs can represent any other type of unique item - a ticket, an access key, membership, a recognition badge, an IOU for a service, and much more.
    We will be releasing several different kinds of NFTs for the Smart Village in the near future.
    By purchasing our NFTs, you are directly contributing to bringing the village into reality.
    The first NFT we are dropping will be:
    a limited edition, collectible, evolving art piece and a badge to show to show off your controbution to the first smart village an access key to our private online learning portal, where you will be the first to get access to our village experimenmts and learnings and be able to collaborate on them before we open-source them and release them into the worl for every NFT sold, we will plant 1 tree or another type of plant to regenerate the land at the village and the forest around it We've been working with the folks from Commons Stack and Longtail Financial to do token engineering and validate our token ecosystem that the NFTs will be part of. This is just the beginning!
    In This Episode of Future Thinkers: Why we're releasing an NFT What are NFTs and what can they do? How artists, smart villages, and social good projects can use NFTs to raise funding Our first NFT to plant trees and do regenerative and permaculture work at the village How the NFTs will evolve in the future Ove of our first events: a psychedelic geocache adventure Pre-selling accommodations through NFTs Event and workshop tickets at the village as NFTs Crowdfunding future buildings at the village with NFTs Why we're using Polygon blockchain Setting up your wallet through Metamask

    • 17 min
    Smart Village Update

    Smart Village Update

    Future Thinkers Smart Village is becoming a reality!
    We have found a new, large 400 acre property with the right zoning, infrastructure and everything else we could need to make the village happen. The property has a RV camp with 80 accommodation spots, a private lake, two creeks, large forest, even a golf course, and the closest airport is just a two hour drive from there.
    In this episode we want to share with you where we are right now with this project, as well as our plans and visions for how the smart village would look like on this new location.
    In This Episode of Future Thinkers: - Why we are creating the Smart Village and what problems we are solving with it
    - How converging technologies can make rural living enjoyable and practical
    - The benefits of a regenerative village for health, family and community life
    - The opportunity for sustainable, affordable and innovative housing
    - Whole systems design and its connection with biomimicry, permaculture and indigenous thinking
    - The eight pillars of whole systems design
    - The opportunity for experimenting with social organization, business structures, economy and investing
    - What kind of mentality it takes to live in a smart village
    - The three things that make intentional communities fail
    - Why we need a network of regenerative villages all over the world
    Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: - How to invest in Future Thinkers Smart Village https://www.futurethinkers.org/invest 
    - Check out the Future Thinkers Smart Village new location https://www.futurethinkers.org/photos 
    - Join Re:Build - Online festival of regenerative village builders, April 30th-May 2nd 2021 https://www.futurethinkers.org/rebuild 
    - Complete show notes https://www.futurethinkers.org/137 

    • 41 min
    Self-Organizing Collaborative Governance Q+A with Richard D. Bartlett

    Self-Organizing Collaborative Governance Q+A with Richard D. Bartlett

    Our guest in this Q+A session on self-organizing governance is Richard D. Bartlett. This session was originally live-streamed on December 4th 2020. 
    Richard is a co-founder of a digital tool called Loomio, and of a decentralized consulting company The Hum. He is also the Director at the Enspiral Foundation, a collective of people working on meaningful projects around the world.
    As an open source enthusiast, he writes about how we work together at any scale, from our relationships to organizations to social change. He is a contributing author of the book Better Work Together, and he is writing his first book called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing.
    Complete show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/136 
    To join future Q&As with thinkers & visionaries, become a Future Thinkers member at http://www.futurethinkers.org/members ​
    Members get access to courses, workshops, and private group calls for a deep dive into practicing sovereignty, resilience, and shadow work.
    To help us with the property search for the Future Thinkers Smart Village go to http://www.futurethinkers.org/landsearch 
    SIGN UP for our mailing list and get a FREE 50+ Page Adapt to the Future Guide: http://www.futurethinkers.org/signup 

    • 1 hr 34 min
    Rites of Passage Q&A with Michael Meade

    Rites of Passage Q&A with Michael Meade

    What rites of passage do we need in today's world? Are we  going through collective rites of passage at the moment? What is the role of mentors in today's society? 
    In this Q&A Michael Meade answers questions from the Future Thinkers Members. 
    Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He is also the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artists, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples. His podcast Living Myth looks at our changing world from a mythic perspective.
    Complete show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/135 
    To join future Q&As with thinkers & visionaries, become a Future Thinkers member at http://www.futurethinkers.org/members 
    Members get access to courses, workshops, and private group calls for a deep dive into practicing sovereignty, resilience, and shadow work.
    To help us with the property search for the Future Thinkers Smart Village go to http://www.futurethinkers.org/landsearch 
    SIGN UP for our mailing list and get a FREE 50+ Page Adapt to the Future Guide: http://www.futurethinkers.org/signup 

    • 39 min
    Miriam Martineau - Building an Intentional Community

    Miriam Martineau - Building an Intentional Community

    Our guest in this episode is Miriam Martineau, who is a counselor, teacher, and Founder of Next Step Integral. For the last 15 years she has studied and researched parenting as a spiritual practice. Miriam and her husband Stefan also lived in an intentional community called Morning Star for 10 years from 1992 to 2002, which they founded in rural BC, Canada.
    We discuss the practical aspects of running an intentional community, attracting the right people in the early stages, dealing with bad actors, as well as raising children to adopt the values of community.
    Complete show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/134 
    To access to the full interview with Miriam Martineau, become a Future Thinkers Member at http://www.futurethinkers.org/members
    To help us with the property search for the Future Thinkers Smart Village go to http://www.futurethinkers.org/landsearch
    SIGN UP for our mailing list and get a FREE 50+ Page Adapt to the Future Guide: http://www.futurethinkers.org/signup

    • 43 min
    Jim Rutt - How to Transition to a GameB Society

    Jim Rutt - How to Transition to a GameB Society

    Our guest in this episode is Jim Rutt, a systems thinker, host of the Jim Rutt Show podcast, and former key player in several technology companies. He was also the Chairman of Santa Fe Institute, where he was working in the scientific study of consciousness and evolutionary artificial intelligence.
    We had Jim as a guest on the show a year ago, where he did an introduction to the concept of GameB and talked about the history of the movement.
    Today we want to catch up with Jim about some of the ways that the concepts of GameB are being applied in practice. Earlier this year, he published a Medium article called A Journey to GameB, which lists lots of practical steps for transitioning into this new social operating system.
    Complete show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/133 
    To access to the full interview with Jim Rutt, become a Future Thinkers Member at http://www.futurethinkers.org/friend
    Learn more and contribute to Future Thinkers Smart Village at http://www.futurethinkers.org/village
    SIGN UP for our mailing list and get a FREE 50+ Page Adapt to the Future Guide: http://www.futurethinkers.org/signup

    • 51 min

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