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Sidebar and SitenoticeEdit

After becoming promoted to Administrator, I have worked on modifying the sidebar so that various pages of consequence are concentrated in this area and can be easily viewed. If you wish to alter the Sidebar, please contact an administrator.

I was first to use the Sitenotice messages on the Future Wikia. If you need me to say something on the sitenotice (at the top of each page), please add a comment at my user talk page.

Explore the Future TemplateEdit

One template I have created deserves special recognition on my part. It is a compilation of the longest pages (those in excess of 3000 bytes).

Explore the Future--All pages longer than 3000 bytes--pages longer than 10,000 bytes in bold--First see Standard Timeline

Concepts	Changes (Categories)		Scenarios by Author		Continued
Futurology • Advanced Concepts • Basics • Certainties • Complexity challenge • Future studies • Gantt chart • Past Technologies • Prediction • Standard Timeline • Technology foresight • Uncertainties Articles • Innovation Links • Links		• Artificial intelligence • Brain Computer Interface • Biotechnology • Communications • Computer games • Computing • Cosmetic treatments • Cyborg • Custom manufacturing • Education • Energy • Evolutionary Spirituality • Genetic engineering • Government • Faster Than Light Travel • Maglev train • Mobile phone • Nanotechnology • Neuroscience • Past Technologies • Personhood • Proteinomics • Reproduction • Search engines • Simulation • Solar power • Speech recognition • Transhuman body • User interface • Virtual reality • Work		Jonano • Scenario: Ben Goertzel • Scenario: Ben Hyink • Scenario: Bill Faloon • Scenario: David A Kekich • Scenario: David Pearce • Scenario: Google as God • Scenario: Nick Bostrom • Scenario: Robin Hanson • Scenario: Target 2020 (Author)Kurzweil • Kurzweil's predictions Paranoid(Admin) • Scenario: Totalitarian State RyanVG • Scenario: Atheism • Scenario: The Colonization of Space • Scenario: Matriarchy • Scenario: NASCAR SamuraiClinton • Scenario: End of Marriage		Stoic Viper • Scenario: Stoic Viper's Forecast StylusEpix(Admin) • Scenario: Cold War in Space Uplink • Scenario: Uplink's Predictions Work for Better Future • Scenario: Emergence of China • Scenario: Emergence of India • Scenario: European-Union Strengthens Yunzhong Hou(Admin) • Scenario: Cataclysm • Scenario: Human Mind Project • Scenario: Nomenclature • Scenario: The War in Space • Scenario: The War in Space Outline Anonymous • Scenario: Chig-Human War • Scenario: Uploading

Criteria for Awarding a PromotionEdit

I follow a personal guideline for promotion of users to Administrator and Bureaucrat status, as follows:

Administrator CriteriaEdit

For Administrator, the user must first:

1. Demonstrate ability to write effectively;
2. Demonstrate willingness to devote a significant amount of time to the project continually;
3. Demonstrate ability to work cooperatively and altruistically with others in the project;
4. Follow the instructions set forth at Guideline; and
5. Revise and create new articles following the team objectives.
6. Catching and reverting edits of vandals, adding edit comments, and collaboratively working with others can help.

Bureaucrat CriteriaEdit

For Bureaucrat, the user must first:

1. Continue to contribute as they have before promotion to Administrator for some time;
2. Show ability to:
   1. Upload images
   2. Move pages
   3. Massively edit pages
   4. Create and add templates
   5. Nominate pages for feature article
   6. Attach categories;
3. Become a veritable driving force for the community;
4. Finds other users worthy of promotion to administrator.

A Formula for the FutureEdit

I endorse realism in futurology. After all, without it, one’s work is seldom applicable whatsoever. Some principles that I believe, and which I hope others will also support, are as follows:

1. None of the laws of nature are to be disobeyed. This includes laws of causality, logic, physics, light speed as the limit, mathematical and scientific theorems and rules, etc. set forth at Certainties.
   1. If you are going to break any of these rules, you must first prove beyond a reasonable doubt that your theory is actually correct;
   2. Otherwise, label everything that follows from an assumption as a scenario.
2. No one knows what the future holds exactly; that is why we need various timelines, time trees, scenarios, and so forth.
3. Singularity cannot be achieved because of the Uncertainty Principle. Nothing involving post singularity is acceptable.
4. All predictions must follow the rules set forth at Guideline.
5. Good penmanship is essential.
   1. Avoid bias.
   2. Mark uncertainties or wild cards as such.
   3. Recognize the limitations.
   4. Fully justify each change that occurs.
   5. Unless you are writing an article about religion, philosophy, ethics, belief, or political system, do not endorse it in your writing.
   6. Recognize the points of divergence.
6. The more radical a change, the more it needs to be explored before it may be used in futurology.
   1. Technologies currently being used or are mainstream are definite candidates for inclusion in any forecast.
   2. Technologies currently under investigation should have a link to an outside source specifying that a reasonable number of experts believe in its capability for success and application in the future.
   3. Technologies to be investigated in the near future (1-10 years) need at least some amount of rationalization behind them. Recognize that they may not bear fruition in the way that you expect them to. Depending on the quality and depth of the rationalization, these may or may not require labeling as scenarios.
   4. Technologies to be investigated in the far future need whole articles of significant length dedicated to explaining them though sound rationalization. Recognize that even so, they are very unlikely to bear fruition the way you expect them to. Articles involving these should be labeled scenarios.
   5. New theorems, scientific rules, and postulates should be fully presented on their own articles prior to being included elsewhere. It is better to accompany articles with proofs of them. Without proofs, such articles should be labeled scenarios.
   6. Certain events that can drastically alter the future are known as points of divergence and should be labeled as scenarios. Wild cards need only the most basic rationalization.
7. Recognize that technology, society, politics, and environment influence each other.
8. All articles on a subject matter should present what happens in the interim and rationalize their own possibility for occurring. This means that an article should not skip a few years, because much can happen in those years.
9. All articles based even partially on scenarios are themselves scenarios and should be labeled so.

BooksEdit

The Books project is my brainchild. Basically it involves creating a table of contents for each Book--a set of related articles/scenarios--for better movement between topics. For a list of books go to Special:Categories and then click on Book. Books take the Category:Book tag only, though all articles/scenarios within it still retain their own tags. Current books are:

• Book:Cataclysm - My Cataclysm arch-scenario
• Book:Futurology - The complete tutorial. It can be said at this point that this project has now arrived at completion.
• Book:Interview - Interviews by User:Jonano
• Book:JC - User:JC's personal book
• Book:StylusEpix - User:StylusEpix's personal book

Once a book becomes long enough, it can be nested. As of October 2006, no such super-book exists.

The Book system is now outdated; the text in each Book page has been shifted to the corresponding Category page, and I've begun nesting books in other books. This is because categorization is easier than bookkeeping, and we already have a plethora of articles categorized so far.

ArticlesEdit

Aside from my organizational work, I have written only a few articles, but the ones I have worked on are particularly long. All of them are on the Long Pages list.

• Scenario: Cataclysm – Point of Divergence: an asteroid hits the earth in the near future.
• Scenario: The War in Space – Point of Divergence: rebellion in the space colonization administration.
• Scenario: The War in Space Outline – Parallel to The War in Space; acts as a guide for my writing.
• Scenario: Human Mind Project – Point of Divergence: scientific experts begin work on liberating thoughts from the mind.
• Scenario: Nomenclature – Point of Divergence: someone introduces a new method of naming chemicals (that will be me—the ideas set forth in this article really work, and I could write a paper on this my thesis today if I wanted to, and have it published in a chemistry journal—copyleft © Yunzhong Hou 2006)

I encourage users to follow my example and introduce scenarios of considerable depth, wisdom, insight, knowledge, and complexity into this project.

The Nomenclature ProjectEdit

Since my first Nomenclature entry, I have shifted my own attitude toward it all--now, I have introduced an even more flexible system (one which I think won't be getting any simpler--it's already at its peak of perfection) which I call Nomenclature 2. It can be found as its own category at Category:Scenario:Nomenclature, which lists the pages relating to it all. Yes, a whole category is needed, as such is the complexity and the depth to which I have analyzed this nomenclature system, tapping into my knowledge of biochemistry to create a system that may someday be accepted as superior to the current IUPAC system. The ideas set forth in these articles really work, and I coudl write a paper on this my thesis today if I wanted to, and have it published in a chemistry journal-copyleft © Yunzhong Hou 2006.

NIAC inputEdit

I noticed that there aren't any mentions of the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts (NIAC) on this site. I haven't tried to sift through to find if there are any references to NIAC sponsored studies (see the NIAC site), but there are many concepts there that come out into other media. These studies seem pertinent, do you think there would be much interaction if I made sure NIAC was ok with their stuff being published here? Jwiley80 02:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

You could pull things from NIAC here, as long as they aren't copyrighted. You can rewrite their ideas here under the various entries if you wish. Yunzhong Hou 16:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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