Beyond the utopia

As part of our initiative to foster knowledge federation as an academic field and a real-life praxis, we are developing the Holotopia prototype. </p>

<p>As a vision of a societal new order of things, the holotopia is practically realizable and yet more auspicious than the common utopias. It is realizable because we already own the knowledge needed to make it possible. It is more auspicious because the authors of common utopias either lacked the knowledge of what is possible, or conceived their visions before the possibilities we have today existed. </p>

<p>The mission of the Holotopia prototype is to share the holotopia vision and to facilitate its realization. </p>

Holotopia and knowledge federation

<p>We explain this point here by a mockup logical argument. We may interpret the "H" as "H ⇒ H", which is a tautology. But when written as "Holoscope ⇒ Holotopia", it becomes an intuitively obvious theorem – which our prototype undertakes to federate: When we liberate ourselves from our conventional or socialized ways of looking at the world, and begin to use a knowledge federation which allows us to see it holistically, then a wonderful new world, a whole world, becomes manifest and practically realizable. </p>

<p>We show that holotopia follows as soon as we begin to federate knowledge. And we show that knowledge federation is the core action that follows from the holotopia insight – and each of the specific five insights that lead to this large and basic one. The </p>

Holotopia ideogram

Holotopia's icon

To emphasize that the holotopia is evidence-based, that we are only federating knowledge, we show how each of our main insights, including the overall insight that holotopia stands for, results by federating a claim of a visionary 20th century thinker or giant. We consider the giant that corresponds to an insight to be the icon for that insight. The icon for </em>holotopia</em> is Aurelio Peccei.</p> <p>Based on a decade of The Club of Rome's research into the future prospects of mankind, Peccei was led to conclude

It is absolutely necessary to find a way to change course.

Peccei also left us the following more detailed instruction, how the course is to be changed:

Let me recapitulate what seems to me the crucial question at this point of the human venture. Man has acquired such decisive power that his future depends essentially on how he will use it. However, the business of human life has become so complicated that he is culturally unprepared even to understand his new position clearly. As a consequence, his current predicament is not only worsening but, with the accelerated tempo of events, may become decidedly catastrophic in a not too distant future. The downward trend of human fortunes can be countered and reversed only by the advent of a new humanism essentially based on and aiming at man’s cultural development, that is, a substantial improvement in human quality throughout the world.

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There is a natural way to change course – by providing suitable 'headlights'. As the Holotopia prototype will show, there is a way to look at the world that allow us to follow exactly the route of "new humanism", toward a "substantial improvement in human quality". </p>

Five insights

The task of putting together the knowledge that may illuminate a radically better future may seem daunting. We here make it simple by pointing to five insights about five pivotal issues, which are alone sufficient to manifest the elephant. We show that each of those five insights naturally leads to a complete reversal of the way in which its corresponding issue is commonly conceived of and handled. We show that each of those reversals is alone sufficient to make holotopia manifest. And that, however, those five reversals are so tightly knit together, that it is practically impossible to implement any of them without implementing all others. </p> <p>Two conclusions follow:

• Comprehensive change may be necessary
• Comprehensive change may be easy

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