Holotopia
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Holotopia
Holotopia vision and mission
As part of our initiative to foster knowledge federation as an academic field and a real-life praxis, we are developing the Holotopia prototype.
As a vision of a societal new order of things, 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.
The mission of the Holotopia prototype is to share the holotopia vision and to facilitate its realization.
What makes the holotopia particularly attractive is a paradox:
Comprehensive change can be easy – even when smaller and obviously necessary changes are impossible.
Holotopia summary
In the spirit of knowledge federation, we offer holotopia as "the point of it all" – or technically as the circle in the information holon in which the knowledge federation prototype is the square.
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.
Holotopia ideogram
We use the elephant as a metaphor for the emerging new social order. The point (* to be elaborated *) is that the giants have been pointing to different parts of the large and invisible thing. But – since they used the idioms of their own professions, and since we didn't have any way to put their insights together – we heard them talking about "the rope", "the fan" and "the tree trunk", and hence ignoring them. By making the holotopia manifest, we at both create a wonderful vision for the future, and provide a way in which the best ideas of our best minds can be understood, put together, and given a way to impact our reality.
Holotopia's icon
To emphasize that the holotopia is academically well-founded, that we are just are federating knowledge, we show how each of our main insights, including the overall insight that holotopia stands for, results from federating a core insight of a visionary 20th century thinker or giant, whom we consider the icon for that insight. The icon for </em>holotopia</em> is Aurelio Peccei.
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.
There is a natural way to change course – by providing suitable 'headlights'.
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