Posted from the US
It seems to me that a set of ethics is emerging that is universal and global and is going to ultimately bang heads with the older established ways and religions.
Here is what I see:
- A connected, global community - in constant communication with each other
- Tolerance and respect for others - including their different choices
- Color, race, sex, ethnicity - does not matter
- Respect for the environment - stop abusing it
- Overall drive for alternative energy that is renewable and low-impact
- Freedom of expression
- Intellectual property is to be shared (freeware, music, books)
- Wiki-Thought - empower the people but embrace the individual
- Have a wicked sense of humor
- A vegetarian, or semi-vegetarian attitude - eating animals will become so 20th century
- All things organic, natural, healthy
- Processed foods = crap
- Hacker ethics - life is more than a daily grind
- Work - what you do should positively contribute to humanity (bomb builders should become health care workers)
- Most things developed by Apple & Pixar film morality
- Linux and it's ilk
- Politics - an old mechanism - becoming a sad joke
- War - no tolerance for it anymore
- Virtual life - a life lived in second life and games
- The web everywhere - a right like breathing and water
- Healthcare - technology should enable great care for everyone
- Robots - we're not afraid - we want them to clean our house
- Drugs - who needs that when you have VR?
This loosely connected list (incomplete) seems to tie a lot of people together around the world. It's not really liberal or conservative - it's more post-human, or perhaps, neo-human (hey, we're human again folks).
-R
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