What would you do if you weren't afraid?

At the MIT Media Lab, I would design an interdisciplinary Ph.D program with Ray Kurzweil, NIcholas Negroponte and Jaron Lanier as Advisors. Within the resources of the Aesthetics and Computation Group, I would create additional interactive online "environments" for my utopian multi-media work-in -progress, The Twenty Third Century Novel:  Secrets of Planet Metafor Revealed At Last!  (Alternative Title: Techne Meets Logos at the Singularity Cafe.)

(The Aesthetics and Computation Group works "Toward the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces. ")

The purpose of my Ph.D would be to design and launch into cyberspace a transdisciplinary self-organizing, non-linear, dispersed work of art which, through its imaginative and innovative technologies and content, would provide the opportunity for every Citizen of Play-Net Earth to attain optimal health, happiness and success, and for the nations of Play-Net Earth to invent and implement a global form of organization that embodies the highest values of our great spiritual traditions and supports the positive evolution of all life forms.