Amanda Stoel
Amanda
Stoel is Foresight Project Developer in the Netherlands with
interests in new
technology,
education reform, transhumanism, renewable energy, augmented reality,
art (drawing and photography), artificial intelligence, healthy living,
psychology, dancing, and singing.
Amanda is an active technoprogressive in the Netherlands. In this field
she openly calls herself a transhumanist. Amanda has worked and argued
for a proactive societal stance towards technological and science,
educational reform, a more sincere application of renewable technologies
and sources of energy, and ubiquitous implementation of virtual,
enhanced,
and augmented reality technologies. She is a General/Friendly
Artificial Intelligence advocate. She has studied
psychology.
Additional interests of Amanda are life extension, robotics, minimalist
living, home hydroponics, and recycling art. She is active in several
NGO related projects pertaining to bridging formal academia, health care
and the public. As an avid critic of inefficiency and societal
sluggishness Amanda favors a radically more proactive attitude towards
empowering technologies, under the name of “foresight”, and she
consistently advocates emancipation through self-direction of those who
would otherwise let others decide their fate.
Amanda is a staunch critic of “societal calcification” and has repeated
that we are damaging our western values by letting corporate and
governmental institutions succumb to wasteful bureaucracy, as well as
non-fact based superstitions and obscurantist (senseless) procedures.
Amanda favors actual living experience and day-to-day wisdom over mostly
outdated formalized, bureaucratic, hierarchical, and detached
institutional constructs. Having travelled widely Amanda has seen first
hand this waste of human potential and she can’t stand it.
She is a staunch efficiency evangelist, a fact which places her values
occasionally in conflict with established and staid organizational
structures. In this deep love of getting the job done, Amanda has made
it her core value to fulminate a goal/result oriented approach,
maximizing the potential for constructive serendipity. Key phrases would
be cooperation, sincerity, lean procedure, and sound
methodology.
Amanda is a go-getter and hard worker. She has worked in the full gamut
of
vocations, from sales in fashion/lifestyle retail, cool-hunting,
academic secretarial jobs, team management, web design, cooking,
to creative design.
In the private domain she is a graphic artist, photographer, healthy
lifestyle advocate, and enjoys singing and dancing. Amanda lived in
Finland and Germany and is a very flexible globetrotter. She had to
survive in very “spartan” frontier regions, once for months near the
arctic circle with winter temperatures under –30 Centigrade. Amanda is
now a curious mix of tough, determined, innocently happy-going, and
nourishing.
Living near Amsterdam, she is a single mother of two young children, a
darling daughter and son. Much of her life is colored by her daughter’s
postnatal cerebral palsy.
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