The categories used in both Currents and the main Regarding Tomorrow site are designed to reflect the varied aspects of humanity’s interface with the world.  Technology will eventually color each of these aspects.

While the categories are a false method of dividing our existence, it may assist members and visitors of our community to locate news and narratives that best reflect individual interests.  Over time, it is our hope the site will develop enough depth at each category to help identify new directions and influences which require consideration as we move forward.

Here is a current, comprehensive list of the categories used on this site:

Architecture (habitat) – form and method for building human habitation
Art (music, drama, literature, illustration) – methods for envisioning, creating and displaying artistic efforts
Body alteration (enhancement/modification) – methods and products used to enhance or alter the physical form as an effort to increase one or more bodily characteristics
Charisma (fashion/allure) – methods and products used to enhance attractiveness (and possibly maintain youth)
Commerce (trade) – how marketing and retailing may change; how individuals make purchasing acquisitions;
Communication (language) – how sentience will share information with other individuals (which may possess a different form of sentience)
Conflict (strife/combat/altercation) – methods and tactics used to avoid or prosecute any form of struggle
Copulation (intimacy) – ways in which a sentient being shows intimate care and/or carries on a physically sexual relationship with another sentient being
Diet (cuisine/nourishment) – methods in which sentience prepares and measures nutritious substances to help maintain life
Education (learning/transfer of information) – methods and formats used to prepare the next generation for mastery of themselves and their environment
Employment (work) – methods through which sentient beings labor to earn a living
Faith (belief) – method and form in which a sentient being develops a confidence in another form of sentience or a principle through which they find guidance
Government (representation) – the form and method a governing body may employ to support the foundational principles under which a sentient group(s) may prosper
Healing (medicine) – techniques used to maintain the healthy state of any sentient being
Interface (controlling technologies) – methods in which an organic sentience may interact with a non-organic technology or sentience
Justice (litigation) – methods through which a central authority may pursue and prosecute sentient beings who fail to follow cultural laws; methods through which one party may attempt to gain recompense from another party
Locomotion (travel) – general mobility for day to day efforts and global/interstellar travel
Nature (flora/fauna) – characteristics to the animals and plants which make up a habitable biosphere through sentient manipulation or natural evolution
Parenting (child development) – methods and forms through which a parent may pursue the necessary functions of nurturing their offspring
Politics (statecraft) – methods through which organizations resolve differences of opinion
Psychology (mentality) – format through which sentient creatures develop in response to their own physical (technological if non-organic, neurological if organic) limitations and as a result of their actions and surroundings; may be involved with the correction of non-normed development as a result of trauma, disorder or design flaw
Recreation (play) – forms through which sentient beings practice learning, experiment with physical and mental abilities or spend leisure time
Reproduction (procreation) – methods through which a sentient being or set of beings may attempt to create a progeny
Rest (relaxation) – methods through which sentient beings pursue an escape from tedium and/or stress
Sleep (dream) – method and form through which a sentient being is able to shut down their system as an effort of restoration
Weather (elements) – methods in which humans will survive or have effect on their biosphere’s atmospheric conditions