THE HUMEM STATE FOUNDATION
is a landless, proto-state that provides your digital extended presence (EP) with citizenship, security, and essential services in a permanent home.
The state exists in its interim form as a
US-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Basics
Benefits
The extended presence
As a modern individual, you are composed of two intimately connected but materially distinct parts:
1) your traditional bodily presence, and
2) your technology-enabled digital extended presence (EP)
A new kind of state
As your digital EP becomes an integral part of who you are and what you do, it is developing needs that parallel your traditional ones—including the need for recognition, protection, and many of the vital services that only citizenship of a well-functioning state can provide.
Corporations and nation-states have structures and purposes that are fundamentally incompatible with your EP’s comprehensive needs.
Therefore, your EP needs to be accommodated, protected, and fostered within a new kind of state.
BASICS
A new kind of citizen
In order to provide your EP with rights and services, and allow it to develop its full potential, it needs to be incorporated into a clearly identifiable whole. (You can't protect, serve, or empower that which you are unable to identify.)
Since it is not properly described by preexisting terminology, we call the resultant aggregate of your EP, together with its rights and abilities, a humem.
Only once your humem is formally recognized as a citizen, in a state adapted to its needs and dedicated to its welfare, can it flourish and attain the comprehensive rights and services that it requires.
Individuals and society
Dual citizenship in the nation-state and humem-state, each addressing the respective needs and disparate lifespans of the individual’s complementary parts. Immediate and ongoing humem-state applications include:
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Data peace-of-mind: expert-managed, lifelong and beyond, personal data platform. (e.g. aggregation, storage, security, privacy, maintenance, and self-monetization.)
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Enduring personal presence. (e.g. perpetual access, legacy, genealogy, family health, after-life agency and philanthropy.)
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Opt-in with trusted anonymization for large-scale medical, social, and historical research.
BENEFITS
Investors and entrepreneurs
The humem-state establishes an entirely new species of economically empowered consumers and producers—resulting in a vast, and continuously growing, emerging market.
Humem citizens require a spectrum of services and products comparable in scope to those of traditional nation-state citizens, ranging from the integration of existing technologies to a multitude of new innovations inspired by humems' emerging needs.
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White Paper / Exec SummarySo, you find this home page a bit too vague but you don't have the time for a long read. Then how about about a 5-minute preview (white paper) of one of the greatest endeavors of our time?
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Contact UsWays of contacting the Humem State Foundation.
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FAQFor a first time visitor, the Humem State's homepage raises more questions than it answers. See the FAQ page for responses to some common initial questions.
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The BookThe book, The Humem State: The Emergence and Establishment of our Extended Presence, by Alan Brook, provides an in-depth examination of the emergence of the extended presence, its need for formal recognition and rights, and the requisite attributes of its hosting environment—the humem-state. SF Book Review Kirkus Review
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OverviewThe Overview section provides a broader perspective of the needs and motivations for a humem-state and why existing nation-states are ill-suited to fulfill this role. It includes a glossary of the basic humem terminology and ways of contacting the Humem State Foundation
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PolicyThe Policy section describes the Humem State's basic principles on the backdrop of humem rights and presents an outline of the Humem State's constitution. It introduces the concept of how the Humem State can be established as an offshoot of an existing nation-state and regarded as a colony or protectorate of the "mother" state.
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ServicesThe Services section discusses a number of basic services that the humem-state will provide for early humems, such as data aggregation, security, growth, and maintenance, while establishing an infrastructure for people's "lifelong and beyond" data needs.
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CultureThe Culture section introduces some of the many benefits and applications that the humem system can produce for individuals and society.
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EconomyThe Economy section describes humems' and the Humem State's basic economic attributes and suggests the enormous economic opportunities presented by these emerging systems.
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TerminologyNew things sometimes need new words. The Terminology page lists some of the basic terms that we'll be using in our portrayal of the humem system.