Eudaemonia

A Presentation of the visions and ideas behind the Eudoxa Think Tank

Overview

The Eudoxa Think Tank is a think tank based in Stockholm, Sweden. The main focus of the group is explaining the cultural impact of emerging technologies integrating the analysis with classical free-market ideas and dynamist thoughts of experimentation, innovation and decentralization.

We work for a diverse society based on a strong moral foundation of individual rights, where individuals have the right to utilize modern technology and medicine according to their own moral judgment. We believe this foundation promotes tolerance and acceptance that will tie our society together, not break it apart. The inspirations behind our vision are a firm belief in individual liberty, free enterprise, a limited government and that ideas have impact on our society.

Eudoxa currently has staff working out of Stockholm, Sweden and Kansas City, Missouri, giving them the advantage of being able to approach both the European and American market with a comprehensive perspective drawn from experiences from both continents.

Projects

Our mission is not to influence the current agenda, as that has already been set by intellectuals more than a decade ago. Our work is to influence tomorrow's agenda.

We have identified several emerging technologies that will have a profound influence on our society, the way we perceive humanity and the way we live our lives in a few years time. Our mission is to look at these technologies from our free-market, dynamist perspective and put them into a political, cultural and historical context.

- Genetics

This is a much broader subject than today's tabloid discussion of cloning your pet, your deceased child or [in]famous historical figures. As we learn more about the genomes that surrounds us and how to manipulate them for better or for worse, we are going to see fundamental changes in our perception of healthcare, medicines and humanity itself.

- Robotics

The introduction of artificial intelligence into software, tools and autonomous devices is creating a world of adaptable, "thinking" systems. The fifties vision of the robot as the all-around household servant has not materialized, but rather personal ecologies of integrated devices. Cheap plastic electronics and nanotechnology makes this technology a potent catalyst for large scale changes in our society and lifestyles.

- Information Technology

The PC has made its entry into our lives; everybody interacts with hundreds of little processors a day, weather they are found in the phone, the TV, the microwave or the car. We are already able to see the outline of how this will make our society work tomorrow, weather it is in the increased transparency, networks that are based on joint causes rather than geography and political changes.

- Nanotechnology

These little molecular assemblers are the final end to the industrial society, but all while the scientists are trying to lure the secret out of this potential cornucopia, the impacts this will have on economy, society and culture is only explored within science fiction literature.