With the opening of the retreat next month, there are lots of projects proposals to review and people to interview. Of the projects selected so far the following are some of our favorites that we are already prepping at the site so they start when we open. For more information or if you are interested in a proposals or living at the retreat please contact pratoriate@hotmail.com .
The Telomere Aging Project
This project aims to unlock methods for manipulating the biochemistry of aging. Working with Doctors, groups and universities this project is working to find methods that show real results from protean error correction to working with Telomere’s. This is a long term project and one that will include many studies over a number of years.
The Zero Farm Sustainability Project
“Make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone.” —Buckminster Fuller describing the objective of World Game
By way of simplification, we can say humans need four things: food, water, community, and control. Yes, we also need shelter, hygiene, healthcare, clean air, and on and on, but we can round down and say these are all aspects of the environment. If you control your own environment, you can satisfy that entire class of needs yourself.
Zero Farm is a theoretical system of infrastructure that satisfies those four basic human needs. In order to meet that core purpose quickly and efficiently, it has three design goals: sustainability, autonomous operation, and easily replicated.
Sustainability is now a fully-fledged field of science, so I will only say this: a perfectly sustainable system is one which requires no outside resources that are not naturally occurring. It is entirely possible to consume resources without requiring them.
The Archive Project
The Archive Project is about building a library of knowledge that is resilient enough to last for centuries. The purpose of such an archive is to help ensure a post human or trans-human civilization based on ours, for us or our children or even our machines. With the Archive, we work towards the long term success of intelligence in the universe. It is the single most important thing we can do to improve the likely hood of achieving this post human intelligence, if not from this civilization then maybe for the next.
At the retreat, several key elements we will be focused on including the mobile archive app and m-disk testing for the 10,000 year disks to provide out to everyone that contributes to the project as well as designing the infrastructure to collect the archive and setting up a library at the Retreat.
Read more on this project here: http://pratoriate.org/blog/the-archive-project/
* image source: http://www.sustainable-agriculture-partnerships.com/ , http://ancientpeoples.tumblr.com/post/26904153263/the-royal-library-of-alexandria-or-ancient, http://www.nist.gov/oles/forensics/biology_dna.cfm
Great post