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| − | <p>To understand the meaning and purpose of [[knowledge federation|<em>knowledge federation</em>]], it may be best to recall humanity's condition at the eve of the Middle Ages: ravaging wars, horrifying epidemics, infamous inquisition trials... Bring to mind the iconic image of Galilei in house prison, a century after Copernicus, whispering "eppur si muove" into his beard. The problems of the day were not resolved by focusing on those problems, but by a slow development of a whole new approach to knowledge. Several centuries of unprecedented progress followed. Could it be similar today?</p> | + | <p>To understand the meaning and purpose of [[knowledge federation|<em>knowledge federation</em>]], it may be best to recall humanity's condition at the eve of the Middle Ages: ravaging wars, horrifying epidemics, infamous inquisition trials... Bring to mind the iconic image of Galilei in house prison, a century after Copernicus, whispering "eppur si muove" into his beard. The problems of the day were not resolved by focusing on those problems, but by a slow development of a whole new approach to knowledge. Several centuries of unprecedented progress followed. Could it be similar today?</p></div> |
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Contents
- 1 Imagine
- 1.1 Introducing knowledge federation
- 1.2 Our purpose is to 'connect the dots'"If I have seen further," Sir Isaac Newton famously declared, "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Imagine if we would lose this all-important ability, to take advantage of the best ideas of our best minds: What sort of problems, and what situation would result? Imagine if we would then regain it: What opportunities would that open up? </div> Isaac Newton </div> A New Approach to Knowledge
- 2 Our Initiative
- 3 Imagine
Imagine
Introducing knowledge federation
To understand the meaning and purpose of knowledge federation, it may be best to recall humanity's condition at the eve of the Middle Ages: ravaging wars, horrifying epidemics, infamous inquisition trials... Bring to mind the iconic image of Galilei in house prison, a century after Copernicus, whispering "eppur si muove" into his beard. The problems of the day were not resolved by focusing on those problems, but by a slow development of a whole new approach to knowledge. Several centuries of unprecedented progress followed. Could it be similar today?
Our purpose is to 'connect the dots'"If I have seen further," Sir Isaac Newton famously declared, "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Imagine if we would lose this all-important ability, to take advantage of the best ideas of our best minds: What sort of problems, and what situation would result? Imagine if we would then regain it: What opportunities would that open up?
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A New Approach to Knowledge
<h3>A discovery</h3>
In Knowledge Federation we have made a discovery. We did not discover that the best insights of our best minds were drowning in an ocean of glut. The 20th century's giants reached that conclusion, and urged the scientists to find a remedy. But needless to say, that too drowned in an ocean of glut.
What we did find out, when we began to put the insights of giants together, was that just as the case was in Newton's time, a new approach to knowledge is ready to be born. And that this new approach to knowledge leads to new answers to core questions – including the nature of truth and meaning, in what way might happiness be successfully pursued, what still impedes our freedom and democracy, and what technological innovation may need to be like to benefit us far more than it currently does.
Our Initiative
<h3>We want to make a difference</h3>
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality", observed Buckminster Fuller. "To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
The issue that is being proactively problematized on these pages is the way we handle a most precious resource – human creativity (or insight, ingenuity, capacity to envision and induce change...) and its fruits accumulated through the ages – at the moment in our history where we may need to depend on it more than we ever did.
We have undertaken to make a difference by igniting or as we call it bootstrapping a whole new course of action. What you'll find on these pages is a complete "new model", or as we like to call it a prototype, of a whole new approach to knowledge – which touches upon a spectrum of relevant issues ranging from epistemology and methods to social organization of knowledge work and technology. Our prototype includes even a deployment strategy – which is already being put into use, as you are reading these pages.
Imagine
<h3>Federation through Images</h3>
Our ideas about what constitutes "good" knowledge and "good" information evolved since antiquity, and now find their foremost expression in science and philosophy. We show that the state of the art in science and philosophy requires that we change our inherited values, and that we update the practices that grew upon them. We render the core ideas in this traditionally abstract field as metaphorical and often paradoxical images called ideograms. The result is a cartoon-like introduction to the philosophical underpinnings of a refreshingly new approach to knowledge.
<h3>Federation through Stories</h3>
<p>Federation through Stories, where we use vignettes (short, lively, catchy, sticky... real-life people and situation stories) to explain and empower some of the core ideas of the giants. A vignette liberates an insight from the language of a discipline and enables a non-expert to 'step into the shoes' of a leading thinker and 'look through his eye glasses'. By combining vignettes into threads, and by weaving threads into patterns and patterns into gestalts, we create a hierarchy of insights that can inform the handling of core practical issues including lifestyle, values, religion, innovation and governance.
A New Approach to Knowledge
In Knowledge Federation we have made a discovery. We did not discover that the best insights of our best minds were drowning in an ocean of glut. The 20th century's giants reached that conclusion, and urged the scientists to find a remedy. But needless to say, that too drowned in an ocean of glut.
What we did find out, when we began to put the insights of giants together, was that just as the case was in Newton's time, a new approach to knowledge is ready to be born. And that this new approach to knowledge leads to new answers to core questions – including the nature of truth and meaning, in what way might happiness be successfully pursued, what still impedes our freedom and democracy, and what technological innovation may need to be like to benefit us far more than it currently does.
Our Initiative
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality", observed Buckminster Fuller. "To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
The issue that is being proactively problematized on these pages is the way we handle a most precious resource – human creativity (or insight, ingenuity, capacity to envision and induce change...) and its fruits accumulated through the ages – at the moment in our history where we may need to depend on it more than we ever did.
We have undertaken to make a difference by igniting or as we call it bootstrapping a whole new course of action. What you'll find on these pages is a complete "new model", or as we like to call it a prototype, of a whole new approach to knowledge – which touches upon a spectrum of relevant issues ranging from epistemology and methods to social organization of knowledge work and technology. Our prototype includes even a deployment strategy – which is already being put into use, as you are reading these pages.
Imagine
Our ideas about what constitutes "good" knowledge and "good" information evolved since antiquity, and now find their foremost expression in science and philosophy. We show that the state of the art in science and philosophy requires that we change our inherited values, and that we update the practices that grew upon them. We render the core ideas in this traditionally abstract field as metaphorical and often paradoxical images called ideograms. The result is a cartoon-like introduction to the philosophical underpinnings of a refreshingly new approach to knowledge. <h3>Federation through Stories</h3> <p>Federation through Stories, where we use vignettes (short, lively, catchy, sticky... real-life people and situation stories) to explain and empower some of the core ideas of the giants. A vignette liberates an insight from the language of a discipline and enables a non-expert to 'step into the shoes' of a leading thinker and 'look through his eye glasses'. By combining vignettes into threads, and by weaving threads into patterns and patterns into gestalts, we create a hierarchy of insights that can inform the handling of core practical issues including lifestyle, values, religion, innovation and governance.