Welcome to Evolve2Live

Rick with Naboki, a tribal elder from South Siberut in the Mentawai Islands

Hi, I'm Rick and I'm stoked that you have found your way through the world wide web to find this page......I am sitting on my terrace in Sumatra on top of a mountain surrounded by jungle and just about as far from the hustle and bustle of the stressful mad modern world as anyone can be. We have wireless broadband even way out here and the speed is pretty good.

This is the view from my outdoor work station on the terrace.

THINK ABOUT THIS
How will we communicate 5 years from now?

The www connects just under one billion people worldwide today. By 2010 the planet will hit 7 Billion humans. There are about 160 million domain names registered now and about 74% get renewed... so discount that number to 120 million. About 65% of these resolve to a webpage indicating that they are live and in use... so discount again to about 76 million. and some industry experts believe that the total number of domain names will reach 500 million within 10 years.


"Registrants registered more than 14 million new domain names in the first quarter of 2008. The number of new registrations in the first quarter grew by 17 percent over the previous quarter and 15 percent over the previous year. New registrations were in the 12 million per quarter range throughout 2007". Source http://www.verisign.com report on Growth in the Domain Industry 2008

This phenomenon is going to change the way we live forever. It HAS already changed the way we live far more than you think. I'm not talking about the little but important things like instant e-mail delivered free globally.... or live video chats free with anyone in any country.... I'm talking about structural consequences of these changes .... how these changes can liberate and empower future generations and millions who suffer the tyranny of distance and poverty right now. The internet can share prosperity globally. It can be the instrument of peace and enlightenment.

I am thinking about changes in world population patterns. Changes that will be visible from space. Changes that can reverse our mindless squandering of the planets finite resources and make it possible to use the virtually unlimited renewable resources that are everywhere around us. Changes that balance the equation:

ecology = economy = equity

This balance is how I define EVOLVE2LIVE.

A big proportion of the worlds educated and affluent population are going to stop traveling to an 'office' building to 'work' set hours. Office workers will be liberated to work anywhere.

The very idea of an 'office' is based on the collective advantage of a group being able to communicate freely and first hand in one place at one time. All that infrastructure, all those multistory towers, all the massive power consumption and roads and water supplies needed to 'centralize' everything in one place.... that 'age' in human development is OVER..... well almost. For sure in my lifetime.... lets say in the next 20 years. We will green our cities and live in those towers... they are too expensive to consider ripping them down. We will walk to work or work from home.

The planet cant afford for us to travel to work in offices much longer.... it was a phase, an 'age'.... the 'Office Age' if you like. We have to move past that now. We have to evolve!

We are about to witness the next big migration on earth.... we will see millions of people move to live in places they have visited on vacation or learned about from others ! BIG MOVES!

WHERE TO LIVE

We can take our capital and knowledge and move to a better climate and to communities where we can share our skills and make a difference for those who have a thirst for knowledge and just need a hand up to help themselves.

That is what EVOLVE2LIVE is about. Planning for what is coming.... this big movement. Preparing for the next big 'age'.... the 'Dream Age'.... the 'Age of Aquarius'.... the 'Information Age' or whatever you wish to call it.... it will transform societies and communities world wide.

It is happening NOW as a direct result of the explosion of the www....and business and trade is moving to the internet. It is our new global market place.

Our spice market - Fresh!

Thanks for sharing these thoughts with me and stay tuned.

Rick