> Creating the Constitution for Hitchhikersguide.earth: A Digital Mutual Society
> For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born. > > — Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
When Robbie Stamp and Douglas Adams, co-founders of The Digital Village, first met, they discussed their mutual love of Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game.
So much of the spirit of what we are trying to do is based on Douglas's genius - his ability to wrap serious ideas in playful language, to see the absurdity in bureaucracy while believing deeply in human connection, and to imagine wildly improbable things with such conviction that they become possible. Like Hesse's game, which synthesizes knowledge across disciplines into something both rigorous and beautiful, we're attempting to create something that doesn't yet exist but that thoughtful, imaginative and playful work can bring into being.
- Project Goal - How we're organized - The Journey - Principles That Guide Us - What We'll Deliver - Why This Matters
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