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Contents
- 1 – If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- 2 – The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
- 3 – The future will either be an inspired product of a great cultural revival, or there will be no future.
- 4 – To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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– If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
"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?
– The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
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 giants reached that conclusion long ago, and documented it thoroughly. (But needless to say, this too drowned in an ocean of glut, and remained without effect.) And anyhow – what else could one expect in a society where vast and rapidly growing technological and human resources are used to merely mass-produce and broadcast information?
– The future will either be an inspired product of a great cultural revival, or there will be no future.
What we did find out (when we began to develop and apply the remedial praxis we are calling knowledge federation) was that now, just as in Newton's time, when we 'stand on the shoulders of giants' we begin to see the world differently. When we 'connected the dots' – i.e. when we combined the relevant insights across the boundaries of academic disciplines and fields of interest and traditions, the result was radically different 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. We also found out that those emerging new ways of conceiving human and societal realities are not just random departures from our habitual ones, but that they form a coherent system of ideas or paradigm.
Thus it turned out that we already own the knowledge needed to ignite a change reminiscent of the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, or “a great cultural revival”, which a giant identified as necessary in our condition. What is missing is the ability to identify the relevant pieces and combine them together.
– To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
“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.”
What 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. By developing and showcasing knowledge federation we undertake to:
- Demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that a radically better alternative is possible
- Streamline the co-creation, real-life deployment and scaling and perpetual evolution of such an alternative
In each of the main four modules of this website we illuminate this alternative from a specific angle. In each of them we demonstrate a different knowledge federation technique or set of techniques by applying them to that purpose.