Holotopia
Holotopia
As part of our initiative to develop knowledge federation as an academic field and a real-life praxis, we introduce to you the Holotopia prototype.
This prototype is conceived as a response to the challenge left to us by late Aurelio Peccei, The Club of Rome's first president and the power behind it. The Club of Rome is a hundred member global think tank, conceived in 1968, to federate what is known about the future prospects of mankind – and point to a way of "the predicament of mankind", as they framed the negative trends in the humanity's evolution, which are today coming to the forefront of our collective attention.
Instead of pasting in what we have on Debategraph, we here provide a fresh rehash and summary; the two texts should be federated
Unlike the common utopias, holotopia is fully realizable; and yet it is a more attractive vision than the utopias tend to be (their authors lacked the data to see what was really possible; or lived in a time when the resources we have today were not available).
As a project, Holotopia undertakes to facilitate the pursuit and the realization of that vision.
What makes holotopia possible is a paradox:
Comprehensive change can be easy – even when small and obviously necessary changes may have proven impossible!
Holotopia’s vision is a comprehensive and harmonious change of our entire societal order of things – to a whole new order. The Renaissance (or Enlightenment) is a historical precedent.
A single axiom
Holotopia follows from a single principle, axiom or rule of thumb – that knowledge must be listened to and used. Or as we like to phrase it
Knowledge must be federated
Just as the case was in Galilei's time – as soon as we liberate ourselves from renegade socialization which is once again keeping our minds and our evolution in 'house arrest', and begin to heed to knowledge of knowledge – a new approach to knowledge is ready to emerge, and lead to comprehensive change. We call that emerging paradigm in knowledge work holoscope
A single value
By federating knowledge, we arrive at a single value – wholeness.
Wholeness it as the quality that distinguishes a well-functioning mechanism and a healthy and thriving human being.
Five reversals
Holotopia
- Thoroughly changes the mood of our engagement with contemporary challenges – from denial or angst, to optimism and extreme opportunity
- Handles causes not only symptoms
- Focuses on comprehensive change (as the easy way) instead of problems
- Substitutes knowledge for socialization
- Turns complexity into extreme simplicity (but doesn't compromise veracity and meaning)
See also
- The five insights we've found sufficient to bring across the overarching insight that hologopia stands for – that a comprehensive change might be easy; and that an Enlightenment-like development is ready to take place.