Chill out

Typical March Sunday near Paris : cold, sunny, a walk in the park with the wife and kid like so many other couples in the area. People from all walks of life, countries from all over the world - the famine migrations of 2016 have made the immigrant sociocultural fabric so much more of what it used to be that inter-cultural struggles have started to come down. Everyone's an island - but everyone's started to build bridges.

Life with the EVOKE network - because it's a lifestyle, not a job - is wonderful, exciting, always full of adventures but it's nice to take a break sometimes. And by break, I mean taking a plane to stay with your family for a day. I'm lucky enough to have a wife that doesn't mind too much yet and my daughter, well...She still only cares for ducks and swans and won't know Mommy and I were hopping all over the world until we tell her when she's older.

I remember when I first moved here to teach, then stayed as I moved from journalism, to blogging, to being an Agent while Christina continued with her artistic training and career. Crappy end of the 19th century building, poverty, social unrest and unemployment. People were even talking about the end of the world and in 2012, Man almost brought it upon himself out of paranoia. In 2016, the massive migrations among other ills have redistributed worldwide populations all over the planet and thanks to the 2019 SEHI initiative - think of the Network minus the anonimity - things started to get better : people training people to train people to make their lives better through inventivity, creativity, questioning their limits and buying humanity some time. Thanks to them, things got better for Agents too : people started believing that the SEHIs were The Network coming public at last, and we were able to continue our work in peace.

Here today, gone to Africa tomorrow and back in a few weeks, then the United States for some downtime while it's over. I kiss my wife, I hug my kid.

Right now, I'm still home. It's true what they say : there's no place like it.

FACT : In 2008, the Institute for the Future and Jane McGonigal's team designed SuperStruct, a game designed to make the general audience aware of the five threats we'll have to face in the future : information crisis, food crisis, weather crisis, health crisis and power crisis. It inspired thousands into thinking and tackling the challenges of the 21st century through projects like Reconstruct, The Weather Project, The New Poney Express and the Nomadic Mark Up Language. Like EVOKE, it suffered from a lack of data organization. Will you be able to face this challenge - this final threat - and succeed ?