Having started at the beginning (of our timeline) and continued with the middle, it seems appropriate we now move on to the end. Of course one of the main points of this blog is that there is no end; there will always be a Future to distribute.
But for now we’ll go with the end of our current timeline, which is of course the Present, the start of the second quarter of the 21st century, January 2025.
What are we doing right now to distribute the Future?
- The Art Authority Museum for Apple Vision Pro
- The NIH “All of Us” program
- A $1000 genome sequencer
- Priscilla’s classes at Southern Oregon University
- This blog
The Art Authority Museum has been a gleam in Alan’s eye for a couple decades now, but really started to take shape (so to speak) when Apple announced its Vision Pro “spacial computing” mixed-reality headset in June, 2023.
The National Institutes of Health “All of Us” program, announced by Barack Obama in 2015, is a capstone of sorts on the work the Alan and Priscilla Oppenheimer Foundation has been doing with Harvard’s Personal Genome Project (PGP) since 2007.
The $1000 genome sequencer the Foundation purchased in 2023 is also a result of our work with the PGP. We’ll be talking in the future about Moore’s law and how it exponentially brings down the cost, and up the power, of just about everything. In this case, what cost millions of dollars at the start of the first quarter of the century is now completely affordable at the start of the second.
Southern Oregon University, right here in Ashland, has been a great place for Priscilla to help distribute the Future to the next generation(s) of students, over the course of a couple decades now.
This blog speaks for itself.
Details on all of these, and much more, coming soon.