David Graeber and David Wengrow, in their book The Dawn of Everything, listed three freedoms that our ancestors had which we are lacking: the freedom to leave, the freedom to disobey, and the freedom to imagine/create new ways of relating.
Free teleportation infrastructure would truly facilitate the freedom to leave and open us to new ways of relating to each other. Let's imagine that possiblity together.
October 21, 2026—7:00pm to 8:30pm
Overview
Come with us into the future. Imagine a future where advances in quantum mechanics have made it possible to zip around the world in just a few milliseconds while at the same time making it impossible for financial institutions to move money around the globe in a wink. What would such a future hold?
Join us for an immersive experience. We will hop on the JumpNet to converge at Northern Commons. JumpNet historian Patrick Stein will lead us through the wonders of our modern life by recounting the many ways that JumpNet has allowed us to be us.
With JumpNet, you and the other ten people on the planet who like shellacking superhero comic book images to seashells and leaving them in public spaces in landlocked cities can have coffee together in Paris before you head off to hide your shells in a Hyderabad library.
In a future where you can visit anyone, anywhere in just a few moments, whom would you seek out? where would you go? who would you be?
Costumes encouraged.
Dress for the world you want to live in, and maybe you'll find some seashells.
JumpNet badges will be provided.
About the Presenter
Patrick Stein (they/them) is an avid reader, relationship anarchist, feminist, and math nerd. Patrick facilitates the Joyful Math group on Meetup, facilitates a book club, participates in a couple of other book clubs, and helps run Northern Commons. They write software both professionally and as a hobby.