Welcome to the RPS/2044 Site
RPS/2044 reports the future by looking back from roughly 2041 – and a little forward, also, to 2044 – recounting experiences on an Alt Earth, in an Alt United States. It is an oral history of a project to create a new society in the (Alt) U.S. The interviewer, Miguel Guevara, brought questions to eighteen interviewee participants in that project prior to the book’s rapid electronic dissemination in 2042.
In 2017, however, from our vantage, RPS/2044 addresses a possible and hopefully inspiring, but certainly not foreshadowed future. It reveals possibilities and explores insights. It hopes to engage with potential readers about those possibilities and insights even before going to press.
At present, the book is not yet published, and not even firmly finished. It is, instead, a work in progress. The language can get better. The message can get wiser. The substance can get richer. But none of that will happen unless people use this site’s tools to have a participatory book better envision a revolution for a participatory society?
The main substantive offerings on this site are
the front matter and the 18 interviews from which the book will combine excerpts into chapters. This is all linked from the vertical menu to the left. The interviews are transcribed verbatim from sessions with Miguel Guevara in 2040-2041.
By way of the horizontal menu above there is also material on the interviewees that includes a way to submit questions for them which will within a few days of being sent to the interviewees, and then appear on site followed by answers from the interviewees.
There are also links for reviews and testimonials, and for purchasing the book, should you wish to do so, once the book is actually published.
Finally, also in the horizontal menu across the top there are two more links – for forums and for blogs. The forums are a tool to make it easy for you to comment on or react to any part of the interviews, and later the book, and for interviewees and others to reply, as well as for us to hopefully incorporate your insights into the first and then future editions of the book. The blogs allow you to offer more substantial essays, should you wish to. Or, you might even decide to write a story or stories, more novelesque than its oral history, about the RPS project. To post a blog, however, you will have to register/log in and then use the + sign in the menu in the black band st the very top of each page.
In light of all the above, we clearly have the unusual experimental site to go with an unusual experimental book. The site is available now so you can add your insights to this work in progress so they might improve the final product.
Try any links, however you choose. Participate as much as you desire. The book, to be generated from the source material interviews that are on site, needs your help. Will you offer it?
By the way, the covers that displayed here are just possibilities, like everything else about this endeavor. Comments on them or anything else, are welcome.
Thank you