The premise of this book, The Fourth Economy by Ron Davison, is that a fourth entrepreneurial economy is emerging. This will be as different from the information economy as the industrial economy before it. Last century we popularized knowledge work, transforming from an industrial economy dependent on child labor to an information economy dependent on … Continue reading The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization by Ron Davison (2011)
In the idealistic approach, the leaders of an organization set out an ideal future state that they wish to achieve, identify the gap between the ideal and their perception of the present, and seek to close it. This is common not only to process-based theory but also to practice that follows the general heading of the “learning organization”. … | Dave Snowden Continue reading Idealistic Verses Naturalistic Approach to Business Dave Snowden
The Knowledge Age of the past two decades is passing today as the digital revolution and artificial intelligence replace knowledge work. William Halal’s study of social evolution explains how this marks the passage to a new frontier beyond poorly understood knowledge — an “Age of Consciousness” is here. But more pandemics, climate change, gross inequality, … Continue reading Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of Consciousness by William E. Halal (2021)
A radically different future is coming, where the digitalisation of everything leads to a hyperconnected world. | Tango Matsumoto Continue reading The Digitalisation of Everything Is Leading to a Hyperconnected World Tango Matsumoto
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public … | Carl Sagan Continue reading I Have a Foreboding Carl Sagan
A strategic conversation has the potential to influence the future direction of an individual, an organization, a community, a society, or the world. | David Gurteen Continue reading The Potential of Strategic Conversation David Gurteen
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time Tags: culture (23) | evolution (29) | … Continue reading Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea Carter Phipps (2012)
Inventing the future requires giving up control. No one with a compelling purpose and a great vision knows how it will be achieved. One has to be willing to follow an unknown path, allowing the road to take you where it will. Surprise, serendipity, uncertainty and the unexpected are guaranteed on the way to the future. | George Land Continue reading Inventing the Future Requires Giving Up Control George Land
Imagine that it is 1920 and you have somehow been granted absolute power to predict the future. You happen to visit the mayor of Rotterdam and, during that time, you describe in vivid detail what is going to happen to his town over the next 25 years. Thus, in an otherwise perfectly normal working day, … Continue reading Saving Rotterdam From Destruction Arie de Geus (1999)
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. | Peter Drucker Continue reading The Future Will Be Different Peter Drucker
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. | Peter Drucker Continue reading Trying to Predict the Future Peter Drucker
In this book, Future Minds, Richard Yonck challenges our assumptions about intelligence — what it is, how it came to exist, and its place in the development of life on Earth and possibly throughout the cosmos. Taking a Big History perspective — over the 14 billion years from the Big Bang to the present and … Continue reading Future Minds: the Rise of Intelligence From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe by Richard Yonck
In the book Enlightenment 2.0, Joseph Heath outlines a program for a second Enlightenment. The answer, he argues, lies in a new “slow politics.” It takes as its point of departure recent psychological and philosophical research that identifies the social and environmental preconditions for the exercise of rational thought. It is impossible to restore sanity … Continue reading Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our Lives by Joseph Heath (2014)
In the book, The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind explores how artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and other transformative technologies are set to reshape society in ways that are both exhilarating and perilous. He argues that we are entering an era of unprecedented innovation, where breakthroughs in AI and bioengineering will democratize … Continue reading The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar (2024)
In this book, Homo Deus, Professor Yuval Noah Harari examines where humankind might be headed. AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded What Is the Metacrisis The interconnected crises shaping our world Yuval Noah … Continue reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari (2017)
Description This is an article on Societal Knowledge Management that looks at the future of Knowledge Management. I wrote it for the Henley Forum and it was published in May 2021. It draws on and is linked to much of the material in this blook. Author David Gurteen Article Size and Structure of Freely Forming … Continue reading Societal Knowledge Management David Gurteen (2021)
In this book, Future Search, Marvin Weisbord focuses on the evolving future search model. He goes deeply into the sources and rationale, the experiments with tasks and techniques, and examples of how he and many of his colleagues have employed this model and its variations. Credit: Amazon AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As … Continue reading Future Search: an Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities by Marvin Weisbord
In this book, Agenda for a New Economy, David Korten has fleshed out his vision of the alternative to the corporate Wall Street economy: a Main Street economy based on locally owned, community-oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance … Continue reading Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth by David Korten (2010)
Our Past Evolutionary Journey Post-biological Evolution ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Since life first emerged on Earth, biological evolution has come a long way. Though it has slowed, what does our future biological evolution hold? … Continue reading What Does Our Future Biological Evolution Hold? With advances in science and technology
What Is the Purpose of Life? ** The Case for Longtermism Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close “What is the purpose of humanity?” contemplates the meaning of humanity as a whole. Not “What is my purpose?” but … Continue reading What Is the Purpose of Humanity ** What is our collective purpose?
What Is the Purpose of Humanity ** Introduction: Our Evolutionary Journey Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Longtermism is a philosophy focused on doing the most cumulative good possible from a civilization-scale perspective. It argues we should … Continue reading The Case for Longtermism How thinking long-term can shape a better future for humanity
What Would Make a Better World? Personal Power ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but we can help create it. We live in a complex socio-technical system — a … Continue reading Predicting the Future Is a Fools’ Errand ** But we can help create it
Sales Café Scenario Café ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close A Future Café is a form of Knowledge Café designed to explore trends and issues that shape, influence or in some way impact the future. The Purpose … Continue reading Future Café Explore trends and issues that shape, influence and impact the future
The Role of Human Agency Within Actor-network Theory Introduction: Complexity Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close We often construct false narratives in complex situations to make the past seem predictable. This habit, called retrospective coherence, hides the … Continue reading Retrospective Coherence in a Complex World How oversimplified narratives distort the past and hinder decision-making
