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Revision as of 07:06, 29 November 2020
Contents
H O L O T O P I A: AN A C T I O N A B L E S T R A T E G Y
Synopsis
A challenge
"The future will either be an inspired product of a great cultural revival, or there will be no future."
This diagnosis of our civilization's condition was made in 1980 by Aurerelio Peccei, The Club of Rome's founding president, based on a decade of this international think tank's research into the future prospects of mankind.
That "our civilization is on a collision course with nature" was at that point a scientifically fact. But the visionary scientists who established The Club of Rome saw that the roots of our contemporary crisis were in a misbalanced way in which our civilization developed—where science and technology prospered at an accelerated rate, while culture and human values decayed.
On the morning of March 14, 1984, the day he passed away, Peccei dictated to his secretary from a hospital bed (as part of "Agenda for the End of the Century"):
"Human development is the most important goal."
Aurelio Peccei
A vision
The holotopia is a realizable vision of a future that offers more than Peccei called for.
This vision is made concrete in terms of five insights, which showing that a comprehensive change is now possible—analogous to the change that was germinating four centuries ago, when Galilei was held in house arrest:
- In innovation (analogy with Industrial Revolution)
- In communication (analogy with Copernican Revolution)
- In foundation or epistemology (analogy with Enlightenment)
- In method (analogy with Scientific Revolution)
- In values (analogy with Renaissance)
A strategy
The holotopia strategy is to focus our efforts on comprehensive and positive change.
The five insights show why such change may be easy—even when smaller and obviously necessary changes may be impossible.
Mission
What action may have the power to set in motion a sweeping wave of change?
At the core of holotopia is a discovery, made repeatedly in 20th century science and philosophy, but not yet corrected: That along the way in which we got modernized, a fundamental error had been made.
Our mission is to correct that error.
We implement this mission in two steps.
Step One: Institutionalizing knowledge federation
The first step is to institutionalize knowledge federation as an academic field.
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