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CONTRIBUTOR You're awesome! Now, it's time to get to work. The Conversation can't work without your help, so consider this your invite to join in at the website.

ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG Show off your support of conversation and The Conversation with a fancy sticker to put on your laptop or car or motorcycle or segway or forehead. There might be some other digital surprises as well. Now get to the website and start talking.

INTERIOR DECORATOR One of the end results of this project is going to be a really cool map of the thinkers and doers we're interviewing and how they relate to each other, their ideas, works, etc. At this tier, you'll get a poster of this map to put up where you see fit + the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE You know what's awesome? Postcards. Why don't people send postcards anymore? Well, at this reward level, Aengus will send you a personalized postcard from somewhere along the road. Who knows, maybe one of our interviewees will write something, too. Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

NO FUTURE WITHOUT THE PAST This isn't the first time Aengus has done something like this. In 2010, he traveled the country asking ordinary people about their hardest decisions. In the belief that any talk of the future is inherently linked to the present and the past, we're offering a hard copy version of the results of that project to you here. Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

INTERIOR DECORATOR, PART 2 Aengus is also quite the photographer. At this level, we'll send you a framed, archival-quality print of one of his best pictures from this trip. Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

THE READER As we've been doing research on this project, we've been doing a LOT of reading. Many of our interviewees are prolific authors and we're developing quite a pile of their books. We'd love to share the wealth, so to speak, and pass some of these books on to you. Sometime after the project finishes up, we'll box up a book or two and send them off to you to read and maybe pass on when you're done. Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

WEAR YOUR SUPPORT AND PARTY I like T-Shirts. Who doesn't like T-Shirts? At this level, we'll send you a T-Shirt for the 2012 US Tour of The Conversation. And you know the best time to wear T-Shirts? At parties. If you happen to be in the SF Bay Area, Tucson, or NYC towards the end of this year, we'll send you an invite to one of three wrap parties for the project where we'll hang out, have a couple drinks, and chat about what an awesome time this whole thing has been. Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

LISTEN TO ME In addition to our main interviewees, Aengus will also be doing man on the street style interviews involving the general public's visions of the future. Do you have something incredibly important to say? Perfect, because at this level, if you are on his route, Aengus will stop and interview YOU. Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

THE iREWARD During The Decisions Project, Aengus performed an experiment. Could he get by with just an iPad as his sole computing device. Turns out, he could. But with this project, he realized he'd need something a bit more substantial to do audio editing on. And so, the poor first gen iPad is sitting around unused. Help save it by donating at this level and we'll send you the actual iPad used while making the Decisions Project. Fancy, right? Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

LISTEN TO HIM So, we know we're going to miss people. We know that we somehow forgot the one person that you think it's absolutely imperative that we talk to. We accept that, because this is in many ways a project in curation. But, if there's someone that you think we are just blindingly idiotic for missing, here's your chance to fix it. Tell us who we need to talk to and we'll add them to the list. Plus, you get the ENTRY LEVEL SCHWAG rewards.

ONE OF EACH PLEASE So, you love the idea that much, huh? That's awesome. Please accept everything from LISTEN TO ME and below. In total: Get interviewed in one of the man on the street segments; a T-Shirt; an invite to the wrap parties; one or two of our books; a framed photo; a physical copy of The Decisions Project; a postcard from the road; an awesome poster; a sticker; other digital surprises as we come up with them; and, as with all rewards, the request that you come to the website and take part in The Conversation.