Catalyst: A Techno-Liberation Thesis (2013) argues that we must channel chaos in a productive direction, towards an alternative world and alternative humanity. This means that anything that unleashes novel technologies to the world, even with destructive consequences, is part of a larger step towards human liberation and empowerment. Rifles liberated oppressed peoples. The internet makes the voices of dissidents louder. It is is historically undeniable, and will happen again with synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and other things that seem distant or esoteric to us now. Humans are no pinnacle, just as modernity is no end. http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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