Vision
Introduction
In the first chapter, you witnessed a story. There you learned for the first time about the origin and effect of the manifesto. In the manual, you then experienced the manifesto yourself. Our manifesto is like a great hike. First, you planned your hiking route on the map, and now you are on your way in the area. Perhaps you have already taken a brief look at the bigger picture. Maybe you have already seen where the map and also the area appear. Now let's take a step back to look at this bigger picture.
For this purpose, it is advisable to revive the old virtue and first read out loud:
Nothing is true. Everything learns. Question. Verify. Understand. Improve.
Follow your bliss. Feel the power. Use technology.
Create. Share ideas. Own.
Think in generations. Live beyond others' norms. Become your own nation.
Become technology. Overcome yourself. Achieve the impossible.
As you can become aware of a dream, you can become aware of reality. Beyond culture, freedom begins.
You have experienced the effect of individual drops and you have experienced the entire effect. You have noticed smaller or larger changes in your life.
Let's do a brief thought experiment and ask the following question:
What effect would arise if you could act together with others, who also experience the effect?
This thought experiment is the view of the summit and the birth of the great vision.
The great vision is our collective action.
Notes from the Authors
Before we continue to look at the summit and ascend, we'd like to take a brief look back. This retrospective is meant to help you understand our vision more deeply at first glance.
The Manifesto is the condensation of all our experiences and was given to us out of the blue. This azure sky then sent us another gift a while later in the form of the great vision.
We have made many attempts to translate these two gifts into the existing, that is, the old culture. At this point, we would like to express our infinite gratitude to all those who have supported this endeavor as helpers and personal translators during this time.
In this period, we also learned that it is advisable to start unpacking the first gift and only then proceed to the second. It is the reverse here as with Artificial Intelligence, which is particularly good at first at what humans have developed last.
However, the Manifesto has not only occupied us by trying to unpack it for others. The Manifesto has also changed us. These changes have ultimately encouraged us not to keep the Manifesto and its interpretation for ourselves.
The great vision is our dream of creating a global alliance of brave, strong, and free spirits to implement the Manifesto at a higher level together.
The great vision is our dream to see these changes we have observed in ourselves over the past few years with and in others as well.
The great vision is our dream not only to see this movement in ourselves and in others but to see the movement that results also in our society.
The great vision is our dream that humanity will overcome itself.
The Grand Vision
So let us not just cast our gaze upon this grand vision, but let us now enjoy the splendid view from our summit.
The dedication of attention to the manifesto, understanding the manifesto, and translating the manifesto into reality is a movement that has led you to our peak. This movement takes place within you and this movement also touches what surrounds you. This movement creates a new culture.
We call this culture Postculture, meaning the culture that comes after the old culture. A culture that comes after modernity and a culture that comes after postmodernity.
Our Postculture celebrates the new values that the manifesto represents. A culture that understands itself as a process. A culture that constantly changes and constantly gives birth to unforeseen ideas. A culture that sees itself as one with technology and a culture that continuously improves from within.
It took many decades in the 20th century until communism fell literally overnight.
The grand vision is the dream that humanity begins to question national states and with them the artificial borders, to examine, to understand, and to improve them. The grand vision is our dream that all people on all continents are united by a new, common goal, to strive towards a Postnation.
A Postnation is not a new idea. Thinkers have been contemplating it for over a hundred years. John Lennon sang about a Postnation more than 50 years ago in "Imagine":
Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion, too.
The grand vision is a dream that humanity, together with technology, strives to overcome itself, so that all our limitations imposed by being human can be eliminated, and we can become a Posthuman species. It is a dream that we can solve the problem of creativity and also the problem of social intelligence, that we can create together a Meritocratic Algorithmic Protocol in which the best ideas win.
Posthumanism is not a new idea either.
However, Ultanio is not a utopia as John Lennon has sung about. Ultanio is also not a utopia as read in the novels of science fiction authors or as preached by charlatans who call themselves futurists.
Ultanio is a vision with a roadmap based on technologies that exist today. Ultanio is in the best sense an enterprise, a movement, and an adventure beyond culture, created by creators for creators.