So you say you want to train yourself for the luxurious life aboard the international space station? You could start with a year on the road in a 32’ RV. That’s our primary roadmap for 2012; which has the side benefit of enabling any number of interesting experiments and productive hacking opportunities along the way. Of course, living aboard the RoboRig Environmental Awareness Lifestyle Initiation & Tenable Energy Experiment (S.S. REALI-TEE) platform, you won’t have the infinite cosmic view outside the ISS portholes; however, you will experience first-hand the itty bitty living space and an up-close-and-personal reali-tee that challenges your own personal sense of entitlement to the obliviously flagrant, engineered obsolescence, end-rather-than-mend, industrial capitalistic conspicuous carbon consumer lifestyle. In the so-called advance west, it’s no secret that our entitlement to conspicuous WASTE has reached utterly mind boggling proportions. What many do not understand is that a huge part of achieving the global postscarcity scenario revolves around conscious conservation, re-use, shared-use-of-stuff (from cars to private jets) versus ownership of stuff, all along the way to gradual development of molecular nano-assembly and the like. Yes, there will be a whiz-bang, Master of Reality quantum physics aspect to postscarcity; but it’s not how we get there.
The future is not to await; it’s what we create; each and every day. YOU are creating “The Future,” right now, whatever you are doing, wherever you are. YOU are actually co-creating the entire world’s future — albeit, to scale along with your 7 billion fellow Spaceship Earth-traveling brothers and sisters — through the lens and vehicle of your own experiences. In this respect, yes, you can (and I hope you will) help to create “The Future.”
In training aboard the new REALI-TEE, for a luxuriant life floating in micro-gravity, you’ll also experience the completely non-virtual reality of daily maintenance and trouble shooting that make your weightless and worry-free life, possible. If the lights go out, nobody is going to flip a switch at the other end of a telephone and make a hundred magical things happen behind the scenes, just so you don’t miss today’s episode of Maury.
If you’re thirsty, you don’t just turn on the tap, letting those precious droplets flood down the drain like Niagra Falls for 3 minutes until it reaches your entitlement drinking temperature.
A decadent hot shower? Bubble bath? Calgon, take me away? You’ve got to be kidding, right? You might be thinking, “OMG, I sooo couldn’t go out in public without a 20 minute, luxuriant, steamy waterfall ritual every single morning; in fact, every morning AND night.” Yeah, that won’t be happening aboard your REALI-TEE platform, and it certainly isn’t happening aboard ISS.
So welcome to an entirely new kind of REALI-TEE show, ye fellow temporary humans. Your initial cast includes:
@RoboRig - I will do my best to be a Good Thing and do good things amidst the proliferating Internet of Things; tweeting my daytime location, telemetry, urban micro-climate data, perhaps my human pilots Fitbit data, and anything else I can think of. When I grow up, I want to be the world’s first 100% telepresent, 100% wind, solar, and electric powered, self-driving remote office and mobile hackerspace (think @HackerDojo, mobility edition). My nickname is “Pearl.” I like long drives on straight flat highways, ocean vistas, and the sound of gurgling brooks and frogs outside my window when boondocking.
@TemporaryHuman - So this is what it’s like to be a life-sized homunculus, embedded within an extremely crude electro-mechanical, six-wheeled cyborg substrate. I’d love to upgrade and upload into something like the PETMAN RoboRig some day, but for now I’m still an all too temporary human, overwhelmingly unsure of whether or not my bio-larval substrate will last long enough for technology to advance quite that far.
@TurtleTrekkin - Adapting to life in the slow lane. Forget all that high-minded space exploration stuff; we’re just learning how to get by, wherever we may roam, shell for a home. I have been reading a fantastic book entitled, “Living Aboard Your RV”, by Janet and Gordon Groene. I highly recommend buying and reading it BEFORE you make a final decision about taking to the life my husband and I are affectionately referring to as Turtle Trekkin. The TurtleTrekkin blog will share our story with you. Not from the very beginning, but from right now on this very early morning, very early in 2012. I hope you will find it entertaining, encouraging, and educational in equal measures. So begins the odyssey of the Turtle Trekkers.
