Uniting fans, the maker movement and youth culture around the world behind the common ideals of grace, glory, excellence, and sportsmanship is a way to hack human culture for positive impact. Indeed, the loom is set, and now it will spread like mycelium, empowering the weavers to take center stage as heroes of the knowledge-worker gaming class. The arrival of Olympic eSports is dawning.

We all have the opportunity to control our own reality, but it can never be done alone.

“Artificial Intelligence cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive.”

What the GSP14 startup teams have accomplished in only 3 weeks time is truly amazing. Carbon nano-tube tricoder medical device anyone? Howabout an intelligent maxi-pad that syncs to your iPhone? How about re-imagining hearing aid devices to bring life-saving augmented-reality to the growing elderly population?

It’s not just about giving something of value, but it’s also the attitude of the participants involved. Is the attitude centered on congeniality, pleasantness, and kindness? If so, despite the value of any objects that may or may not exchange hands, the customer experience is likely a great one. Generosity is as much about attitude as it is about value.