2. Examine the big picture processes and
trends of current global change so that we
can understand emerging global
arrangements, power shifts, markets and
ethics. In particular I will discuss how how
our climate and our future are being
endangered by our current behaviors.
Explore what mindsets and behaviors are
needed to ensure future personal,
organizational and community success,
and planetary sustainable prosperity
through to the year 2050- and including a
climate-safe future for all of us.
3. A worthwhile life involves leaving a legacy to our
children and grandchildren and their generation that
is greater than the one we received from our parents.
My parents generation sacrificed in war so that we
might live in peace.
Leaving a legacy of inaction about climate change
will create lasting damage to our children’s and
grandchildren’s environment, pass the costs of our
negligence on to them and restrict their future
options.
My definition of a parent is one that works for a
generation to create a successful adult.
When we shape the future we must always think time
frames as parents and consider the legacy we are
leaving.
4. • Leadership :Leadership : being abeing a purposeful future-maker.purposeful future-maker.
• Management :Management : being abeing a resilient future-taker.resilient future-taker.
• Planning :Planning : Applying the different forms of planningApplying the different forms of planning
(including land use, urban, community, transport,(including land use, urban, community, transport,
social, financial, industrial and economicsocial, financial, industrial and economic
planning).planning).
• Design:Design: Utilizing design based professionsUtilizing design based professions
including engineering, architecture, all forms ofincluding engineering, architecture, all forms of
design (such as industrial, systems, fashion anddesign (such as industrial, systems, fashion and
graphic design).graphic design).
• Innovation:Innovation: developingdeveloping new means (ways andnew means (ways and
wares)wares) to do old and current things better, and newto do old and current things better, and new
things first.things first.
• Learning :Learning : increasing our knowledge andincreasing our knowledge and
capabilities, changing our mindsets and beliefcapabilities, changing our mindsets and belief
systems in order to become more future effective,systems in order to become more future effective,
and discover new options, possibilities andand discover new options, possibilities and
opportunities.opportunities.
5. Developers should use all of these six core
processes to shape the future not just some of them.
You are in the business in creating legacies that
outlast you.Therefore your work should be to create
outcomes that are as future-relevant and future-
resilient as they can be.That means you need to
visit the futurist within you more often.
Success goes to those who get to the future first
(Gary Hamel)
What is also important is that these six processes
should be informed by the same body of values
(paradigm)- and discussing these values openly and
building values consensus is essential. More on
values shortly.
6. Part Prophet – who asks what will be the future?
the trend analyst who responds to perceived
trends.
the way of the Manager in each of us.
PartVisionary- who asks what should/could be
the future?
the imaginer of, and the dreamer about, the
future.
the way of the Leader in each of us.
The difference between these two parts of ourselves
is summarized thus:
Some people see things as they are and ask why, I see
things as they could be and ask why not! (George
7. We are too occupied with growth
and not enough with
development.
Development is about
transformation into something
more appropriate for the needs of
the times. None of us want a 2
metre tall 80 kilogram baby .
8. Be an effective manager-of-self and leader-of-self, being a
resilient future-taker and a purposeful future-maker
Shape one’s life and career path though clarifying one’s destiny
(through insight), by consciously choosing or creating destiny
appropriate employment and life destinations (through
foresight) and by examining and learning from one’s
derivation (through hindsight).
Embody the values of Planetism, the emerging global
paradigm which requires that we give first priority to planet
over nation and tribe, and which will shape 21st
century
markets, ethics and jobs.
Know how to initiate, nurture and amicably terminate
interdependent relationships.
Practice lifelong, learner-driven, just-in-time and collaborative
learning.
Commit oneself to continuous innovation - doing both old
things better and new things first – creating ways and wares for
emerging Planetist markets.
9. Consider this question:
Ten years after your death your
children and grandchildren
are standing at your
gravesite/memorial
remembering you .
In one sentence how are they
remembering you?
10. We can predict a great deal of what is ahead of us:
In preparing for the future, we can also predict:
what products and services will be in demand in 2025 and
beyond; what new products and services and job categories
will be present then and which of those those present today
will disappear
what new industries need to be established and innovations
created to ensure our collective future prosperity;
what new ethics and values will emerge; and
what new skill sets and capabilities people will need, if they
wish to be successful in the future.
What follows is how we can do this:
11. Values determine what people value and regard as
valuable.
What people value and find to be valuable, they
will want to acquire more of.
What they want more of will determine what they
seek in markets.
What is sought in markets will shape emerging
innovations, products, services and technologies.
I call the main innovations : Capacities and
Capabilities and Ways andWares (more on these
later)
12. We are collectively concerned about what needs to be
accomplished for humanity to create a climate-safe world
by 2050.
This is two generations hence and it is worth celebrating
that we are having this conversation at all and thinking
about agendas to be accomplished two generations
hence : humanity has not been traditionally renowned for
being far sighted and altruistic.
Climate change is just one challenge , albeit an
important challenge, facing those would like to leave a
legacy of opportunity and possibility to their children and
grandchildren which is greater than the the legacy they
inherited form their parents
Two generations is about the right time-frame to consider
these issues, because it is both far enough away not to
threaten any of the current holders of political power, and
yet close enough because it involves visualizing a world
which we can design and construct where our own
grandchildren and their generation can thrive.
13. If we are to create a global society which
is prosperous, sustainable, secure,
harmonious and just by the year 2050
what would the components of a vision of
such a future and what would be on the
list of strategic actions, and how should
humanity collaborate, to realize this ?
This is the purpose of the Designing 2050
process - and my last published book
Designing 2050(2008) and my new book
Destination 2050 (2012)
14. 1. Globalisation : increasing interdependence and
interconnectedness such as through trade and investment
and an increasing awareness of our shared destiny and
vulnerability.We are signing many global agreements to
help us manage our planet better.We are increasingly
recognising the oneness of humanity and we are ceding
independence as we appreciate the shared
synergies/benefits delivered through increasing
interdependence.
2. Tribalisation : old empires are breaking up to form many
smaller tribal states, where we increasingly value and
celebrate cultural difference.We are simultaneously
breaking old political imperial arrangements and joining
new political interdependent arrangements.The number of
members of the UN has doubled in 50 years and will continue
to grow albeit more slowly.
3. Technological interconnectivity : the Internet, global
communications and global media are enabling us to
collaborate and become even more
interdependent/interconnected.
15. The old Russian empire –the Soviet Union - is now
15 separate nations.
The old Serbian empire -Yugoslavia – is now 7
nations with both Montenegro and Kosovo only
recently gaining independence from Serbia.
The Javanese empire – Indonesia- is struggling
with Timor Leste already independent, and Aceh,
andWest Papua amongst others seeking
independence from Javanese dominance and even
repression.
The Han empire – China – holds together and its
future as a single entity is far from certain.
Tibetans and Uyghurs are seeking independence
and facing Han oppression when they do. How
many more non Han vassal states will eventually
follow?
Question: when a dependent state seeks freedom
and democracy which side is global public
opinion on? – eg Libya, Egypt, Tibet.
16. Lithuania for example was dependent of the
Russian empire the Soviet Union as a vassal state.
All the important decisions were made by Russians
or by compliant Lithuanians. With the fall of the
BerlinWall Lithuania became independent. After a
brief period as an independent nation, it then
sought interdependence by joining the European
Union
Will Catalonia, the Basques, Scotland and Tyrol
follow? They will because each of these can now
how have their cake and eat it too.They can
celebrate their own unique culture as a tribal state
but also have the benefit of belonging to a large
interdependent union based on mutual respect
,mutual obligations and the collaborative pursuit of
prosperity.
Globalization and tribalization are interacting to
reshape our planet.
17. Is lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty
and are creating the massive growth of a global
educated, middle class.
There are now 500 million educated, middle
class people in India and China alone.The
educated middle class is growing by the
population of NewYork City every 3 months and
in South, South East and East Asia it will
collectively reach 1.2 billion by 2020.
By 2030 there will be at least one billion
educated middle class people living in tropical
environments.
Educated middle class people have similar
values the world over: want small families,
tertiary education , democracy and to protect
the environment for future generations.
18. A single integrated a planetary society is being
born.
Our old arrangements of being separated into many
different tribal cultures which are often at war with
one another are disappearing.
In its place is a single pluralistic planetary society
is emerging, which will be fully developed by the
year 2050.
This emerging society is becoming ever more
integrated and does not regard cultural and
religious difference as as a reason for disrespect
and intolerance. Indeed the opposite applies:
difference is increasingly respected and treasured.
19. And we witnessed:
The collapse of most command economies such as
in the Soviet Union (where economies are mostly
shaped by government investment).
The global dominance of the market economy
(where economies are mostly shaped by customer
choices) and where purchaser choices and trade
with others all over the world world can now shape
economic conditions inside the border of a country
as much as any action by its government.
20. Weakening the power of individual nation states to
shape both the lives of their own people because they
cannot influence activities beyond their borders, while
those beyond their borders can influence the lives of
citizens of particular nation states;
Strengthening corporations because unlike
governments they can operate everywhere.The number
of global corporations is massively increasing in
number.These corporations are both commercial or
non-commercial/humanitarian;
Strengthening the growth of communities within
nations, because these communities can trade directly
with the world irrespective of national regulations, and
communities of nations such as the EU, ASEAN and
Mercosur, because these provide their people with both
greater collective clout in global markets, greater
mutual prosperity through larger internal amrkets,
and better protection from unfair operations of the
global marketplace.
21. The 19th
and early –mid 20th
century were dominated by
the paradigm modernism.
Modernism believed in replacing the old with the new
simply because it was new. Before it was replaced by
the new the old was declared to be ‘old fashioned’ and
often treated with contempt. People believed in
Progress and established progressive movements and
progress associations which promoted modernization.
In the early 20th
century people uttered ‘you can stop
progress’.‘Progress’ to modernists was innately good.
Even though modernism was ubiquitous conflicts
emerged about the best means to realize modernity and
this caused the great ideological divisions of the 20th
century- Communism versus Capitalism , Fascism
versus Socialism.These diverse approaches all
supported modernist ends, but the disagreements over
the means to be used to realize these ends polarized the
20th
century.
22. Modernist progress had a long shadow. In the name of
‘progress’ we ‘tamed’ and destroyed the environment
and eliminated, marginalized or assimilated
indigenous cultures and cultures deemed to be inferior
as imperialism and religious evangelism spread
modernity around the world.
As time passed the shadow caused by modernism
became too big to ignore and a backlash against it
emerged.
We began to begin to be ashamed by the things we did
in the name of modernity.The feeling which
accompanied the use of the phrase ‘you cant stop
progress ‘ shifted from enthusiasm, to resignation and
then on the cynicism.
This feeling was summed up perfectly by Joni Mitchell
in her song ‘BigYellow Taxi’ In 1970, two years after the
Earthrise photographs, Joni Mitchell observed we now
‘paved paradise and put up a parking lot’.
23. Post modernism was born.We even began to change
the words we used to signify that we now value things
which we previously regarded as of having little or no
value in the modern era; swamps became wetlands,
and slums became heritage precincts.
Post modernity believes we should keep past things of
value and integrate them with the new. So we
retrofitted heritage buildings with new facilities
rather than destroying and replacing them, we
created new arts and music by showing respect to,
and even appropriating from, the best of the old.We
saw that acupuncture, yoga, ayurveda and shiatsu can
complement the latest medical treatments rather than
be treated with contempt as ‘quakery’ as we did in the
modernist era .
But post modernism is only a means for us to
deconstruct modernism and prepare us for what will
follow it.
24. The 19th
century was the century of
dependence - most people lived in
colonies
The 20th
century was the century of
independence - the majority of people
now live in independent countries.
The 21st
century will be the century of
interdependence, where independence
entities voluntarily give up some of their
independence because of the benefit and
synergy that comes from union.
25. Dependence – childhood
Independence – adolescence
Interdependence – adulthood
In the interdependent 21st
century,
we all need to know how to
initiate, nurture and successfully
end interdependent relationships.
26. In 1624 John Donne, the first high priest of social inclusion
and interdependence , wrote:
No man is an Island entire of itself. Everyone is part of the
continent, part of the main,
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as much
as if a promontory were.
As much if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in
mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls
for thee.
Donne was a prophet - reminding us nearly 400 years ago
that we are members of a single human family and our
differences pale into insignificance compared with our
similarities.There were few adherents to his view then.
However in the early 21st
century a huge portion of humanity,
including the global educated middle class, shares Donne’s
view.
27. Interdependence is the key word to describe our
emerging 21st
century global society- our increasing
political and economic interdependence, and our
increasing awareness that we share an ecologically
vulnerable planetary home, and because we recognize
that we have no choice but to find ways to coexist and
thrive together.
The core principle of interdependence is that two or
more entities who are seeking to build a closer
relationship voluntarily should relinquish some of
their independence because of the benefit from union .
Interdependent relationships are mature
relationships.
They require that we only have rights if there are
reciprocal responsibilities to others. Give and take
must be balanced if relationships of all kinds are to
prosper. The world is growing up!
28. We now are beginning to recognize that we are evolving towards
a wholly interdependent global society where political
boundaries no longer limit the role we can play in such a society.
But we are also carrying with us into this future values which
might have have be appropriate when humanity was divided into
different often warring cultural and religious groups but are no
longer appropriate for the 21st
century all of humanity faces
together.
We are are recognizing our collective interdependence means
that we must now give priority to community over individualism
if these are in conflict.This in turn means that our global
dialogues now must focus on ‘what forms of mutual coercion can
we mutually agree upon’ (Garrett Hardin in The Tragedy of the
Commons). This is based on a recognition that in a 21st
century
interdependent integrated global society there can no longer be
winners and losers, as was he case in the modernist era. Now we
can only all win together or we will all will lose together: unless
we all can benefit together there will be no agreement.This
applies whether we are trying to create effective global trading,
financial and investment systems, solve the challenge of climate
change, deal with terrorism or organized crime, grow global
communications ,or protect other species from extinction.
29. We reached a partially satisfactory agreement in the climate
change conference in Durban . However all of us know that we
have much more to do and we have to achieve a binding
global agreement involving all nations very soon.The world
will keep at this until the right agreement is finally reached,
and
David Cameron did not sign up to a more financially
integrated Europe as he wanted to protect London’s position as
a financial capital and reward his Eurosceptic conservative
heartland . He will lose long-term for first he will endanger his
coalition government, second the Europeans will now work
hard to grow Frankfurt as an alternative financial centre, and
third Scotland (and perhapsWales as well)- who do not benefit
much from the accumulation of wealth in SE England - will
seek independence and secede from Great Britain and join
Europe on their own terms.
30. However we are already sufficiently interdependent that
we can now collectively punish the Planetary rogues by :
trade bans;
customer boycotts often driven by the internet;
freezing their bank accounts;
Withholding investment.
The need for war to punish them is actually declining. And
wars are seldom fights to the finish any more but now are
used to position oneself for negotiation which global
public opinion will pressure both sides to undertake. If
they don’t do this they will be dragged before the
International Criminal Court (ICC) which will punish
people who commit crimes against humanity such as
through genocide. In future those who commit crimes
against nature will also be brought before the ICC.
31. Finding ways to nurture interdependent
relationships by negotiating mutual obligations
through the ceding of some independence, so that
we can mutually benefit from the synergy that
follows the development of a mutually beneficial,
interdependent relationship.
Relationships can be enhanced through synergism
( 2+2=5), but also be undermined by it’s opposite -
namely antagonism ( 2+2=3)
Developing interdependence negotiation Ways and
Wares, which assist us to identify what forms of
mutual coercion we can mutually agree upon.
32. Examples are:
the personal adult relationship;
The workplace;
the supply chain;
the loyalty scheme;
the political union such as the EU or ASEAN; and
our relationship with the environment.
Aggregated purchasing utilizing supply chain
interdependence and loyalty will grow in emerging
21st
century society.
33. The three questions we need to be able to answer if we
are to place our trust in another in an
interdependent relationship are :
Is the other honest?
Is the other reliable?
Is the other competent?
All our young must become experts in initiating,
managing and amicably ending interdependent
relationship
Imagine innovations we can create to
assess honesty, reliability and
competence.
34. Interdependence is the key word to describe 21st
century global society- political, economic
interdependence and the recognition that we have no
choice but to find ways to coexist and thrive together.
The core principle of interdependence is two or more
entities who are seeking to build a closer relationship
voluntarily relinquishing some of their independence
because of the benefit from union .
Imagine trust-on-line innovations we might create to
assess whether the other is honest, reliable and
competent before consummating an interdependent
relationship. I call these honesty, reliability and
competency assessment ways and wares (more on
ways and wares shortly)
35. • Interdependence is perhaps the most
important word to describe the essential
nature of emerging 21st
century society.
• Our interconnectedness and
interdependence so magnificently
prophesied by John Donne in 1624 is now
a reality and recognized by most people.
• The most amazing thing is that since
1960 we have travelled half way to
creating this interdependent global
society.
36. • We can predict a great deal more about
emerging 21st
century society.
• By doing this we can become much more
effective in preparing ourselves for future
success and we can prepare to maximize
our chances for future success by getting to
the future first.
• We can do this as individuals
communities ,organizations and nations.
• Here is a summary of this historic
paradigm shift.
37. Individualism
Independence
Autocracy
Humanity against nature
Development, production,
consumption, lifestyles Unsustainable
Patriarchy
Intercultural & inter-religious
Intolerance/Hostility
Conflict Resolution through
Confrontation/Combat
Safekeeping through Defence
To the Spaceship
Culture / Planetism
(2020) Priority to Planet
Communitarianism
Interdependence
Democracy
Humanity part of nature
Development, production,
consumption, lifestyles Sustainable
Gender Equality
Intercultural & inter-religious
Tolerance/Harmony
Conflict Resolution through
Cooperation/Negotiation
Safekeeping through Security
38. Will want innovations (what I call ways
and wares) which deliver products and
services demanded by emerging
Planetist markets such as democracy,
sustainability, intercultural/inter-
religious harmony, security and
gender equality.
These will enable the creation of
sustainable prosperity in the 21st
century
39. Ways : innovations (social innovations) in what
we do in order to achieve an objective.
Changes to/new behaviours, actions,
strategies and cultures.
Wares : innovations (physical innovations) in
what we use in order to achieve an a objective.
For example new designs, products, services
and technologies.
Most of the innovations – the ways and wares-
that will be selling in global markets the year
2030 and beyond -and these will be Planetist
markets-have yet to be invented.
40. We can define innovations – ways and wares-
which do not yet exist- but will need to exist in the
future to realize prosperous, sustainable, secure,
harmonious and just Destination 2050 by their
purposes. Here is a current example.
Water conservation way : shortening your shower
from 6 to 3 minutes
Water conservation ware : a new low volume
shower head
Together they enable us to conserve water.
Imagine for example, some 21st century
innovations such as living within solar income
ways and wares, free and fair elections ways and
wares, security ways and wares, inter-religious
harmony ways and wares, emotional intelligence
ways and wares.
41. Interdependence means that we must
construct win/win outcomes if we want
continuing success.Win/lose should be left
for the sporting field today and back in the 20th
century
Success will increasingly come more from
cooperation/ collaboration and less from
competition.
Interdependence means that one of the
winners should be the communities in which
you operate as well as your immediate clients
and customers.
42. Interdependence and collaboration will
increasingly be used to create wealth, and
independence and greed that does not
recognize the negative impact of self interest
on others will be increasingly disapproved
and punished.
And doing economically well will increasingly
require that you do social, ecological and
cultural good-the paradigm of global
cosmonaut capitalism, rather than while
creating social, ecological and cultural bad –
the paradigm of global cowboy capitalism.
43. The global investment and financial system is
evolving. Interdependence brings with it both more
productivity and more vulnerability particularly if
we behave irresponsibly in terms of the needs of
others, like the Greeks have recently done. And
vulnerability can only be overcome by even more
interdependence- with its concurrent mutual
coercion/obligations .This has been shown in the
current Euro crisis and the opting out of the UK
from this increasing interdependence.The majority
of financial transactions are speculative- there are
many organisations such as hedge funds who are
only interested in treating the global financial
system as a casino.Will such organisations be
advantaged or disadvantaged by increased global
integration?
44. The evolving system will increasingly operate
under one set of rules, and will force
international responsibility on all financial
institutions, irrespective of where they are and
this will build further on the already existing
Basel 2 and Basel 3. There has been a gradual
demise of the influence of many national
currencies.This will lead to the establishment of
a world central bank and a single global
currency within 10-15 years, that is owned by
both everybody and nobody. So we won’t have to
prop up one currency that is also a national
currency-such as the US dollar-so that its role as
a global exchange mechanism can be retained.
And there will certainly be taxes on financial
transactions (eg the Tobin tax) to discourage
speculative financial transactions
45. This increasingly vulnerable interdependent
global financial system has already been
severely dislocated by narrow self-interested
financial corporations, including by merchant
banks and hedge funds.Those financial
corporations that resist broadening their
narrow self-interest into enlightened self-
interest risk becoming planetary pariahs. In
particular global public opinion and
governments have already judged as rogues
many of those financial corporations that
operate selfishly for individual gain at the cost
of undermining and threatening the whole
global interdependent financial system.They
are as being judged as harshly and are being
subjected to as much collective global anger as
is directed on autocratic governments that
continue to repress their own people.
46. A recent manifestation of the already quoted poem of John
Donne is this story :
A rich Chinese man recently told me why the rich should
be much more altruistic today and why, ultimately,
narrow self-interest is self-defeating. He said what is the
point showering all my wealth and love on my own children
if one day my son, when walking down the street is
murdered by a poor man who wants to possess his shoes. I
am aware that I should contribute to the wellbeing of other
people’s children as well as my own.
In an interdependent world we can best succeed by
seeking to uplift others as is already occurring through
globalisation : with interdependence we all prosper when
more of us prosper.
Therefore all organizations can position themselves for
21st
century success by being committed Planetists .
47. Wealth Is a combination of the physical
(resources) which must be conserved and the
metaphysical (knowledge) which can only grow.
(Ralph Buckminster-Fuller)
In many cultures including in my own-
Australia-there is too much dependence on the
physical component of wealth generation and
not enough conscious development of the
metaphysical component.Too many people
think that wealth comes from beneath the
ground, out of the soil, or off the hoof- rather
than from between the ears.
48. We know about economic prosperity and poverty.
We can also have ecological, social and cultural
prosperity/poverty.
If we cut down a rainforest we create economic
prosperity, albeit short term, while simultaneously
creating ecological poverty. Leaving the forest
uncut we maintain ecological prosperity and
deliver economic poverty. Can we simultaneously
create ecological and economic prosperity?
Similarly we can create economic prosperity while
simultaneously creating social and cultural
poverty.
If we are to create sustainable prosperity we need
to be able to create economic prosperity without
simultaneously impoverishing ecosystems, society
and culture, and even while creating more
prosperity in these categories.
In the the 21st
century we can do economically well
by doing ecological, social and cultural good.
Imagine achieving this.
49. A sustainable society is a society which has
achieved sustainable prosperity.
Is a society which is capable of living
indefinitely on Spaceship Earth and which
lives by planetist values, as distinct from
modernist values.
Gives first allegiance to planet over tribe or
nation
It will be a society which is prosperous,
sustainable, secure, harmonious and just.
What ways and wares are needed to realise
such an outcome? – imagine sustainable
prosperity ways and wares.
50. It combines prosperity (wealth) of four
different kinds:
Economic prosperity
Ecological prosperity
Social prosperity
Cultural prosperity
It does not involve the increasing
prosperity in one form, whilst
increasing poverty in another.
51. Involves generating wealth from 21st
century industries, enterprises, products
and services.
70% of the industries, products and
services of the year 2030 have yet to be
invented.
Many innovations (ways and wares) will be
needed to generate economic prosperity,
while simultaneously protecting,
nurturing and where necessary, restoring
ecological, social and cultural prosperity,
and avoiding creating ecological, social
and cultural poverty.
52. Here are six design rules for
innovation/practices for creating future
ecological prosperity - imagine developing
ways and wares to:
live within perpetual solar income.
Turn waste into food .
Create zero net collateral damage to the
environment.
utilise resources at Just-enough –in-place–an –
time (JEPT).
Nurture and restore biodiversity and renewable
resources.
learn from and/or mimic nature.
In the 21st
century we will not increase economic
prosperity by : destroying the environment and
creating ecological poverty but by nurturing
ecological prosperity (eg biodiversity,
landscapes, soil, water) while simultaneously
growing economic prosperity.
53. That we should live within perpetual solar income was first
suggested by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1969.There is more
than 10,000 times the energy required to meet all our needs
arriving daily from the sun as solar energy.Those who
invent and market the ways and wares to enable us to utilize
solar energy directly will become 21st
century billionaires.
An example : One way we can do this is to utilize solar
driven marine hydro (ocean currents) which can
complement lunar driven marine hydro (tidal power/wave
power). Solar energy can be converted into electricity and
then into hydrogen through water electrolysis. Hydrogen can
be piped into homes and industries , and converted JIT
( Just-in-time) into either thermal energy by burning, or
electrical energy via fuel cells.
It would be possible for the whole of Perth to be powered
from hot rocks, direct solar, wind power and marine hydro.
What could be the role of UDIA in realizing this vision.
Imagine solar energy ways and wares in all their forms?
54. That we should turn all waste into food was
first suggested byWilliam McDonough in
1999. In nature there is no such as waste. the
waste of one species provides the food of
another.
In the 21st
century we should no longer
practice the problem centred-strategy of
reducing waste, but the mission directed
strategy of abolishing waste altogether the,
by turning all waste into food through reuse
and recycling.
Would could and should be UDIA’s role in
creating a zero net waste Perth andWA.
55. I first suggest this in 1998.The concept of collateral
damage originated in the defence sector - meaning
unintended damage caused during a military operation
caused a lack of precision.
In medicine collateral damage occurs during surgical
procedures or other procedures such as administering
chemotherapy -in medical parlance these are unwanted
side effects.This is unsustainable medicine. Drugs are
tested exhaustively to ensure that collateral damage is
minimized to acceptable levels before they are
introduced. Sustainable medicine would involve
performing a procedure with zero net collateral
damage such as using biotechnologies to trigger the
immune system to overcome cancer or introducing
chemicals into the body such as drugs with zero net
collateral damage,Vaccines, for example, because they
act more precisely, represents a higher level of
sustainable medicine than treatment with drugs.
However over time all medicine is becoming more
sustainable, because is is becoming more precise.
56. In agriculture we use pesticides and their use harms
many non target organisms- in ecological parlance
these are unintended environmental impacts.This is
unsustainable agriculture. Sustainable agriculture or
what is called evergreen agriculture would occur when
through biological control or gene modification we kill
the target organism with zero net collateral damage to
non-target organisms/the environment.
Public health and safety can be regarded variations of
the same narrative of seeking to prevent/avoid/heal
collateral damage to people. Preventing health hazards
and accidents can both also be seen as forms of
avoiding collateral damage. Creating a sustainable and
safe society are actually variations of the same
narrative.
Zero net collateral damage recognizes that sometimes
collateral damage is unavoidable. In his case
repair/restoration/healing of damage to
people/environments is required if the action is to be
regarded as sustainable.
57. I first suggested this in 1998. Just-in-time (JIT)
developed in the manufacturing and retail sectors
where supply chains operate to provide needed
goods and services just-in-time for their use.This
avoids accumulated stockpiles and unnecessary
waiting, and it is more cost effective/efficient.
In naturally operating ecosystems, energy and
nutrients flow through the ecosystem and are
available for use just when they are needed, that is
just-enough-in-place-and-time.
In man made processes large amounts are present
are time and are excessive to need. For example
fertilizers are added to soil during agricultural
production in excessive amounts and are washed
away by heavy rainfall thereby polluting waterways
and offshore waters with excessive nutrients.
Biological agriculture in contrast ensures that
nutrients are available when needed , as they are in
natural ecosystems.
58. All renewable resources such as water, soil,
biodiversity, individual species, or whole
ecosystems (both naturally occurring or
modified into productive systems such as in
agriculture) can be conserved, protected,
restored and managed, in order to maintain or
restore prosperity, or alleviate poverty.
Sustainable use means we should utilize them
in ways so that they are not impoverished,
including through collateral damage.
Imagine for example ways and wares for soil
conservation , soil restoration , soil protection,
or soil management to maintain or restore soil
prosperity or alleviate poverty and the same
with water.
59. Water conservation: minimize water loss including by evaporation
and seepage, prevent water wastage in communities, industry and
agriculture, and create sufficient storage to ensure water availability
in varying climatic conditions.
Water protection: ensuring water is not polluted by toxins and
nutrients, and is of the quality required for its intended use.
Water restoration: enable water to be used many times.
Watershed management: meet the ecological needs of rivers,
wetlands and lakes, protect soil, minimize the collateral damage
caused by floods/droughts, and deliver water JEPT when/where it is
needed. Manage to maintain watershed prosperity , or to restore
prosperity /alleviate poverty
What could be the role of UDIA in creating a world leading water
management culture in the SouthWest and Perth where rainfall is
likely to decrease by 30% by 2050, if climate change is not adequately
responded to.
In the north the future will be wetter . Development must be able to
deal with more cyclone and intensive rainfall events.
60. Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, a
mistress above all masters, are laboring in vain. –
Leonardo daVinci
The biomimicry (or bioinspiration) revolution is just
beginning. It involves learning from nature: using
biological systems as design templates/modules to
construct new technologies and innovations, develop new
ways of processing and producing goods and services,
and create new approaches to organizational
management and behavior. It is based on the the thesis
that living organisms have been successful at thriving in
the environments in which they live, unlike the more than
90% of animals and plants that have ever existed that are
now extinct. Biological models are informing many new
innovations- such as burrs that inspired the invention of
velcro, or the surface structure of lotus flowers that lead
to the creation of self cleaning windows. Ecosystem
structure and behavior is now informing the next wave of
the development of the Internet – the emerging concept of
digital ecosystems.
61. Social prosperity involves creating ways and
wares which :
Enhance social and community cohesion and
conviviality-in the three kinds of communities
described below, including through shared visions and
strategies to create the future.
Provide economic security through work and
opportunity.
Enable universal life long/learner driven learning
Supply adequate universal shelter.
Facilitate healing from illness and
opportunity/capability to realise wellness.
Ensure the pursuit of individual rights/benefit does not
encroach on/limit community rights/benefit.
Social poverty occurs when many of these are
absent and communities have lost cohesiveness
and have even become dysfunctional.
62. Involves the nurturing and celebration of
cultural heritage and diversity and the
realisation of inter-cultural and inter-religious
tolerance, respect and harmony.
Utilising cultural prosperity as a generator of
economic prosperity. eg cultural tourism
Involves global/ national arrangements which
mitigate against actions which increase cultural
poverty
As the world integrates into a single global
society, cultural differences are ever more
treasured and celebrated (eg. world music, world
food courts, cultural tourism).
Conflict between cultures and religions
impoverishes culture. Intercultural and inter-
religious harmony are essential if the world is to
realise sustainable prosperity by 2050. Here is
an example of how creating cultural prosperity
can also create economic prosperity.
63. We use the word defence when it has become a
much less relevant concept in an increasingly
interdependent 21st
century when win /loss
outcomes need to be replaced by win/win
outcomes- outcomes that build interdependence,
for increasing interdependence is the major
peacebuilding strategy in the 21st
century.
The concept of defence is based on the view that
our threats are external and involve attempts of
conquest across national boundaries, and because
previously nations were mostly unicultural .
Our threats are now mostly internal, and our world
is now both more interdependent and more
multicultural.
We now need much less defence but we do need
more security and peacemaking/peacebuilding
64. 21st
Century Security requires:
Intelligence and vigilance ways and wares.
Response to threat ways and wares that also
create zero net collateral damage.
21st
Century Peacemaking/Peacebuilding
requires :
Peacemaking Intervention ways and ware
that create zero net collateral damage.
Trade ban, account freeze, consumer
boycott ,ways and wares to punish rogue
states and leadership.
Trust building, Negotiation, Intercultural
and interreligious tolerance/harmony ways
and wares.
Win/win outcomes ways and wares to
replace win/loss ways and wares.
65.
66. Developers are by nature purposeful future-
makers. Many of their struggles are with future-
takers who feel threatened in their vision, or
with future-makers who have an alternative
vision.
In an interdependent 21st
century success will go
to those who dialogue and collaborate with theirs
critics and seek is win/win outcomes. Developers
in a interdependent 21st
century will not succeed
if they embody the 20th
century win/ lose values of
the white shoe brigade.
To be successful 21st
century future-makers we
should understand the six different ways we think
about the future, and the difference between the
manager in us and the leader in us.
67. 1. Plausible-future : What could be our future? What
alternative initiated externally scenarios are foreseeable?
Plausible prediction. Plausible pathways
What could be our future prospects: what plausible-
future shaping events can we imagine? What externally
driven alternative scenarios for the future can we
imagine?
Alternative scenario( plausible-future) planning conducted
by itself ignores the fact that we are not helpless, and
can actually shape the future and that have aspirations
within us about our future .
2. Particular-future: What alternative pathways could realise a
particular future? – Particular prediction. Particular
pathways
We might be concerned about a particular future event
occurring in the future, such as a particular threat or
opportunity.We might then seek to examine the different
means or scenarios- particular pathways - that might
realise this particular-future.
68. 3. Probable-future : What will be our future?.The vision of the
manager within us. Probable prediction , Probable
pathways
Where are the collective forces shaping our future
(current trends) taking us?What will our future be if we
continue with business-as-usual.What will be the
consequences if we continue on our current pathway,
and don’t consider alternative destinations?
4. Prospective-future : What will our future be now? : the
probable-future after circumstances change . Prospective
prediction , Prospective pathways
What will be the the future if on our journey to a
probable-future we are confronted by altered
environmental conditions -and new circumstances are
moving us from the probable-future towards new
prospective destinations ? prospective-future =
probable-future +plausible-future
69. 5. Preferred-future : What should/could be our future?
The vision of the leader within us. Preferred prospect,
Preferred pathways
What do I aspire for myself/ourselves or what could
I/we realize? What is my/our dream?
If you don’t have a dream , how you gonna have a
dream come true ? (Oscar Hammerstein 3rd)
6. Possible-future : How much of the preferred-future is
realizable? The preferred -future when circumstances
change an /or capacity/knowledge is limited. Possible
prospect , Possible pathways
What destination is possible, given we have
limitations to resources/knowledge/capacity, and/or
because circumstances and conditions have changed
.These circumstances can be predicted and
anticipated as plausible-futures. Possible future =
preferred future + plausible-future
72. Manager Leader
Responds to change: reactive Creates & shapes change: proactive
Future-taker: path-taker: change-taker Future-maker: path-maker: change-
maker
Cautious about risk Careful about risk
Does the thing right Does the right thing
Guided by fate Guided by destiny
Controls actions and events Facilitates actions and events
Works in the organisation Works on the organisation
Prophet: informed & motivated by
understanding & predicting trends, and
asking why?
Visionary: informed & motivated by
imagining the future & the future self,
and asking why not?
Probable-futurist: asks what will the
future be like?
Preferred-futurist: asks what
should/could the future be like?
Problem-centred strategist Mission-directed strategist
73. 1. Confident : having self belief but without
hubris (Masculine, Animus,Yang)
2. Courageous: going where others dare not,
overcoming self interested opposition
(Masculine, Animus,Yang)
3. Committed: doing what must be done,
being assertive not aggressive (Masculine,
Animus,Yang)
4. Considerate: listening and responding to
the opinions and views of others (Feminine,
Anima,Yin)
5. Courteous: showing respect in
conversation (Feminine, Anima,Yin)
6. Compassionate: responding with empathy
to victims/disadvantaged (Feminine, Anima,Yin)
74. Vision. Motivating/inspiring /mentoring inspiring
visions.
What will be/should be our destination, our
probable-future/preferred-future?.
Values. Elucidating core organisational values.
What values/ethics - both good and bad,
currently guide our behaviour?
Virtues. Promoting virtuous organisational
behaviour.
What values/ethics should we consciously
promote in our future behaviour and how do we
best do this?
Venturers. Recruiting/inspiring/empowering
supporters
Who will be, and how do we empower and create
effective Champions (internal supporters of the
leader) and Allies (external supporters of the
leader)?
75. Voyages. Identifying/stimulating/facilitating
strategic actions.
What strategic actions should we facilitate;
impediments overcome, improvements made,
initiatives taken (collectively the 3is), heritage
nurtured and baggage eliminated.
Vehicles. Developing capacity and capability,
fostering innovation.
What additional resources/skills are needed?:
capacities (resources), capabilities (skills and
capabilities).
What social innovations ,including new actions/
behaviours/ethics should we develop/introduce?:
Ways
What physical innovations, including new products/
services/technologies, should we
develop/introduce?: Wares
76. The first three dialogues are:
1.Destiny dialogue (Insight)
Destiny = aptitude + passion. The secret to a
successful life is to understand what is one’s destiny
to do and do it (Henry Ford)
2.Destination dialogue (Foresight)
Vision : Envisioning preferred future/possible
future destinations.
3.Derivation dialogue (Hindsight)
Heritage: What priceless elements in my past- my
journey until now should I treasure, nurture and
include in our plans moving forward?
Baggage: What now unwanted elements from the
past are still with us that we must change, modify or
eliminate so that our past experiences do not
undermine our future journeys?
77. In the future your relationship with the
‘community sector’ will become more and
more complex.
You will succeed best if you seek to
construct interdependent relationships
with the community sector and this
means constructing win/win outcomes in
everything you do.
There are now three different kinds of
communities: locational , experiential and
aspirational communities .The strategies
you need to deal with each of these differ.
78. This is what most of us know as the original concept of
community. Locational communities are bonded because
its members live together.These can be like a set of
Babuska Russian Dolls with each one being located
within a larger locational community. Some of our
communities can be: our home, our neighborhood, our
suburb, our workplace, our city/town, our nation, our
planet.
For success you must be seen to be a community member
constructing win /win outcomes that affirms your loyalty
to community
When you face NIMBY type responses to your proposals
you will need to dialogue with them them as an
aspirational community- for they are fearing the future
implications.
79. Some times our loyalty to these various
communities might cause conflict and we
must then choose to which community we
should give our primary allegiance. We might
live in a town with an industry that is
contributing to climate change. But as of a
member of the planetary community we also
recognize that if the planet is to thrive we
might have to close /transform such an
industry that until now has sustained us
economically.
80. Experiential communities are bonded by shared
experiences, including shared past traumas or
successes, or by shared heritage.We might belong to
a community of ex-students of a school or be
supporters of a particular football club. Experiential
communities can be co-located or its membership
could be spread widely. Cultural and religious
diasporas are good examples of experiential
communities, as are old school networks. In a
rapidly globalizing world these communities are
growing massively.
You can deal with these by helping them celebrate
their past and present, and to keep their community
thriving in what you design , plan and build.
81. Aspirational communities have shared
aspirations/goals.They are bonded because they
have a common cause or have a shared vision of
the future. All movements for social change, all
environmental groups, all businesses who want
to improve- are aspirational communities.
Members aspire and collaborate to realize a
preferred/possible-future and are not happy to
settle for a probable-future, of more of the same.
Dealing with them you can dialogue with them
about how you can construct a shared future
together that continues to celebrate difference
while building a shared future for as experiential
communities.
82. Experiential communities and locational communities are
predominately future-taking communities.They are often
apprehensive about, and reactive to, future change and need to
be reassured by words and deeds-and consulted and respected.
Aspirational communities are future-making communities.
They are often passionate and purposeful about the future.
They seek win/win outcomes and want to be proactively
involved in design, planning and innovation activities . If they
cannot see a win/win outcomes they will seek win/loss with
them as winner.
If a locational or experiential community is in decline with a
discouraging probable-future, it can transform itself into an
aspirational community that seeks to envision/realize a
preferred/possible-future. Future success can be assured by
adding aspiration to experiential and locational communities,
or by creating communities that embody all three forms of
community.
83. Learning is one of the most critical
things we do to prepare for future
success
What should be done to ensure that
education and learning plays the
most effective possible role in
shaping the future?
Here also are some thoughts on the
future of teaching.
84. Utilizes Destiny dialogues (insight), destination
dialogues (foresight) and derivation dialogues
(hindsight) to assist in the development of life and
career paths .These could be used by counselors
and students at points of entry and reentry into
education, and for career path and professional
development planning.
Keeps educational records of all people –an
educational equivalent to a medical record, so that
the learning/ case history record travels with
students throughout their lives/careers and
ensures that learning is customized for the learner.
Eliminates of the last vestiges of the traditional
one-size-fits-all educational model derived from
Fordist/Taylorist mass production/
manufacturing.
Imagine also the ways and wares we need to invent
85. • The emerging Planetist 21st
century has only been
possible because of the widespread of public
education and the growth and spread of prosperity
through globalization.
• This has enabled enough people to look beyond
tribal and religious difference to recognize the
oneness of humanity, and that we share a common
planetary home and shared interdependent future.
• The adoption of Planetist values is strongest
among educated people and societies with
universal education.
• However education and learning is also critical if
we are to prepare people to become 21st
Century
successful people in both life and work.
86. Continuous learning is at the centre of professional
development and career path planning. In this we
should :
learn to become better shapers of the future, that
is better learners, leaders, managers, designers,
planners and innovators.
Become resilient future-takers and purposeful
future-makers, develop the 6Cs and 6Vs in
ourselves, utilize the 5Dialogues/3Sights to chart
and make pathways into the future, and the 5Ps of
the future in our work and life.
But besides what we learn also need to
understand how each of us learns best.We can
create an appropriate 21st
century learning
culture, and recognize that all our learning can
be done this way.
87. We need to create a learning culture appropriate
for the 21st
century, which ensures that all assume
responsibility for their own vocational learning
and personal development throughout their
whole lives.
This proposed learning culture has 8 elements and
each makes use of 21st
century teaching, learning
and technological advances.
Each of these should be realised in detail through the
innovation and marketing of ways and wares for
each component.
Can you imagine some of these ways and wares?
88. Lifelong learning. Continuously utilising up to 10% of
one’s time to prepare for success on one’s future life
and work, and for future organisational success.
Learner driven learning. Learning initiated and
managed by the learner, not the teacher/mentor,
through the utilisation of learner driven learning
technologies.
Just in time learning. Providing the opportunity to
learn through curiosity and when the need for
knowledge is greatest, including from remote
sources, at home & in formal learning /work
environments.
Customised learning. Being able to learn more
effectively because all learning opportunities and
processes are customised to suit different learning
and thinking styles.
89. Transformative learning. Designing learning for,
and assessing the success of learning by, the
transformation of students, because the
transformation of people rather than the
acquisition of knowledge is the major purpose of
education.
Collaborative learning. Designing learning
environments/processes to ensure learning is as
effective in groups as it is for individuals.
Contextual learning. Providing a context to
maximise learning by locating learning in real
life and virtual real life environments which
make learning more effective.
Learning to learn, think and feel . Improving the
capability to learn ,think and feel- via multiple
intelligence learning
90. Creating and marketing new
Ways andWares to facilitate each
of these aspects of the 21st
century
learning culture.
What changes to learning and
teaching are needed to
implement it?
91. 21st
Century relevant teaching will involve the
teacher/provider playing three different roles:
The knowledge navigator: Navigating students to
sources of data and information so that they acquire
it through learner-driven, just-in-time, customized
means.
The mentor :Mentoring and inspiring the learner to
transform data and information gathered from a
wide range of sources into knowledge and wisdom.
Provide them with simulated working and
experiential environments to contextualize learning
for more effective personal development and to
prepare for emerging opportunities.
The case manager/life and career path counsellor:
Providing guidance to ensure that learning
effectively fosters the realization of personal
development and career path aspirations.
92. Has a positive, flexible and adaptable disposition
towards change, seeing it as normal and as an
opportunity, rather than a problem.
Has a security born of self-confidence and is at
ease when dealing with insecurity, risks,
difficulty and the unknown.
Has the capacity to initiate creative ideas,
develop them and see them through into action,
in a determined manner.
Is able, even eager, to take responsibility and is
an effective communicator, negotiator,
influencer, planner and organiser active,
confident and purposeful, not passive, uncertain
and dependent. (Colin Ball)
93. Here are some of the capabilities that enterprising people excel in:
Assessing strengths and weaknesses.
Making decisions.
Working co-operatively in teams and groups.
Planning time and energy.
Carrying out agreed responsibilities.
Negotiating.
Dealing with power and authority.
Solving problems.
Resolving conflict.
Planning and managing projects.
Coping with stress and tension.
Creating one’s own health/wellness.
Evaluating performance.
Communicating both verbally and non-verbally.
Developing strategic visions/action plans for self and others.
Intervening strategically and systematically to shape the future.
Modified from and based on the work of David Turner
Imagine enterprise skills ways and wares
94. There is no vision of what an optimal ageing society
could or should be, and future-taking rather than
future-making dominates discourse and actions
relating to ageing.
The way we deal with aging is the way we deal with
most things in cultures that are dominated by
problem-centred thinking.We look at the emerging
problems caused by aging and then seek to eliminate
or abate them.This will merely create ageing that is
less unsuccessful, not successful. Just as wellness is
more than an absence of illness, and sustainability is
more than an absence of unsustainability, successful
ageing is more than an absence of unsuccessful
ageing.
If we are not aging successfully- what then would a
vision for successful ageing look like and what would
be the core elements of a vision and a strategic action
plan to create successful ageing?
A program for successful ageing should include
visions and strategic actions at both the individual
and community levels.
95. Are purposeful future-makers as well as resilient
future-takers.This is a good time to undertake
destiny, destination and derivation dialogues to
decide how one might spend one’s life as
productively and happily as possible.
Review and reposition their work - doing what
gives meaning to ones life- and, if they wish,
turning this into their employment, including
part time.
Have a clear vision of their preferred legacy -
what meaningful gift to future generations,
including their own children and grandchildren,
they would like to bequeath to future generations.
This assists the aged to define an expanded role
for themselves as elder or mentor.
96. Indian Summer Adulthood (ISA) is the name I have
given to the period after the end of full time work
where one is still able to live a fully independent life.
This can now last for several decades and remarkably
little thinking has gone into envisioning how this part
of life can become both more enriched for aged
people and more enriching for the society in which
they live .
Until recent times our thinking about this ISA period
has been totally dominated by medical models.There
is virtually no discussion anywhere about what
In the next decade public policy must be directed
towards ensuring ISA people are able to live fulfilled
lives, through a personally customized mix of part-
time work and recreation, while still contributing to
national wellbeing when they wish to through part-
time paid and volunteer work, and while maintaining
their own economic self-reliance through
superannuation.
97. Among the roles that ISA people could play are expanded
social/community roles such as elderhood and mentoring
of the young in initiation- transformation into adulthood-
programs in secondary schools.This could include formal
certification of elderhood by the education system for the
widespread introduction of elder mentoring into schools
and workplaces.
However as one ages continuous adaptation to change and
the re-envisioning of one’s preferred-future/possible
-future pathways is also needed.
During ISA times, the ability to live the lifestyle of earlier
years is increasingly tested. Some doors might close
because of disability and/or disadvantage, but other doors
can be identified and new directions of personal
development and fulfilment can be charted and travelled.
The 3Ds can assist one to develop these new life purposes.
If such new purposes are not clearly found and realized
ageing is not likely to be successful.
98. is also a time for people to pursue long
postponed aspirations, create pathways to
new interests, build new relationships, and
identify and access new meliors to improve
their wellness.What could call the
successful ageing industry is emerging to
provide for these needs.
However there still an absence of
conceptual frameworks and coherent
visions to first imagine and then develop a
successfully ageing society.
This should be a priority in all cultures
experiencing ageing. Once a conceptual
framework and vision has been created
there will be possible to imagine and
create successful aging ways and wares.
99. Aged and disabled worker support enabling them to stay in
work post the formal retirement age should they choose to .
Effective working from home and from wherever an aged
person is- a lightweight mobile office for grey nomadism.
Mobility for the aged that facilitates mobility equivalent to
that experienced in middle age.
Healing and wellness for the aged delivered at home.
Shopping from home with home delivery .
A wide variety of home services for fulfilled living for aged
people.
Learning, both professional/vocational and general,
customized for aged people .
We can collectively all these successful aging ways and
wares. Clearly many of these are already in the market,
demanded as they are by the rapidly growing market for
goods and services that are customized for ageing people who
want to live more fulfilled lives. However, again it is
important that there be a coherent vision and strategy for
realizing successful ageing.Without this we will continue on
our ad hoc way towards inventing 21st
century successful
ageing. Society can do much better than this.
100. More and more people travel and become
tourists and pursue other activities that they
have yearned to do for years, and that were
long postponed during the years of full time
work.
Grey tourism and Grey nomadism generally
are now major components of tourism
business. A considerable amount of it would
be categorized as aged customized
ecotourism and cultural tourism.
What does travel/ tourism customized for ISA
people look like?What new grey tourism
ways and wares can you imagine?
101. There is a growing movement to deal with adult
immaturity through the reinvention of Initiation during
the middle years of secondary school to ensure that all
our young achieve successful adulthood.
This in turn requires the reinvention of Elderhood and a
new major role for Elders in society as mentors.
Imagine two new qualifications- one a certificate to
record the successful transformation from childhood into
adulthood, and another to record the certification of
Elderhood.
In the coming decades there will certainly be a massive
emphasis placed on workplace elderhood/mentoring.
When people ‘retire’ a great deal of knowledge and
wisdom walks out through the workplace door. We are on
the threshold of creating a group of elders as wisdom
workers who will assist stretched workplace management
and leadership to be resilient future-takers and
purposeful future-makers. Organizations of all kinds will
work to ensure that this knowledge and wisdom remains
available through workplace elderhood/mentoring.
102. How many adjectives can you imagine
in front of the world elder? eg.
mediation elder, meditation elder,
wellness elder, workplace learning
elder, urban design elder, democracy
elder?
In doing so you will help invent the
elder and mentoring profession in the
21st century and assist older people to
play a significant role in society should
they seek to do so.
103. • Five transforming generic technologies have shaped
development and created economic prosperity over
the last two centuries : water-powered mechanization,
steam-powered mechanization, electrification,
motorization and computerization.
• Technology is one of the key sources of new
innovations both in terms of ways and wares .
Technology is influencing both problem-centred
innovation-doing old things better, and mission-
directed innovation-doing new things first.
• A high proportion of the new wares and some of the
new ways which will be developed to supply emerging
Planetist markets between now and 2050 will be based
on five additional generic technologies, namely the
digital technologies , biotechnology, biomimicry and
bioinspiration, nanotechnology and new materials
technologies.
104. 1. The digital technological revolution of cybertechnologies and
communications technologies. Cybertechnology consists of IT,
(information technology ) and its emerging 21st
century
descendents KT (knowledge technology) and WT (wisdom
technology).
Cybertechnogy also involves the conversion into a common digital
language all of the product of human creativity: writing and
language, the visual arts, music and sound, the performing arts,
film and video, all aspects of culture, and this digital content
embodied in the work of professions including designers,
planners, architects, engineers, medical researchers, economists
and other social scientists, and natural scientists.This permits the
synthesis of all forms of current creative expression and the
creation of new forms. It enables the transmission of this
synthesized digitized product around the world through a
coalescence of the cybertechnology and communications
technologies, and the access to, and trade in, just-in-time digitized
products and services from virtually anywhere on the planet
through cloud computing.
105. Data + purpose = Information
Information + culture = Knowledge.
The same Information embedded in different
cultures becomes different knowledge. Describe
your own working culture.
Knowledge + experience + reflection =
Wisdom
What proportion each of information ,knowledge
and wisdom respectively do you use in your work?
106. We are drowning in data and
information
We are starving for knowledge and
wisdom
Therefore we need not only DT and IT
We also need KT and WT
The future of IT involves the creation of
KT and WT for Planetist markets.
Imagine KT and WT.
What ways and wares would you need to create
this ?
107. The data and information stays behind in the
technology.
The knowledge and wisdom walks out the door.
Name :
a quality, facility or opportunity which could
be added that would enable knowledge and
wisdom to be retained; and
Identify the baggage which should be
eliminated.
Identify some ways and wares to achieve
both of these?
108. When you ask a question of
knowledge, you get an answer
back.
When you ask a question of
wisdom, you get another question
back.
Imagine knowledge and wisdom
on-line.
Imagine KT andWT ways and
wares
109. The biotechnology revolution is a result our
increased understanding of the human genome and
of proteomics-which involves manipulating the
translation of genetic information into proteins.
Among the critical proteins are the enzymes-
organizers and controllers of all biochemical
pathways and the structural proteins, such as skin
and muscle, present in all living things .
Biotechnology enables us to strategically intervene
in biochemical and physiological processes to
change outcomes such as preventing and curing
disease of humans ,animals and plants, and
transforming biological systems such as
photosynthesis, respiration and protein synthesis in
order to produce new products and energy.
110. Nanotechnology - based on the minaturization of
processes/products down to a billionth of a metre.
At this scale the nanotechnologies can operate on
molecules directly for they are of the same scale
as the molecules that they are manipulating. At
this scale systems behave in a different way to
what they do when their scale is larger, often for
example obeying quantum rather than Newtonian
behavior.
Nanotechnology can be used to create many new
materials and devices with a vast range
applications of such as in medicine, and
veterinary medicine, agriculture, electronics,
and energy production.
Biotechnology is in fact an organic nanotechnogy,
so nanotechnogy can be either organic or non
organic (physical) or a combination of the two,
and combined with other technologies such as
ceramic materials.
111. The materials developed by a culture have often
been seen as so significant that it is used to
describe the culture itself- for example stone age,
bronze age, iron age. In the 21st
century the rapid
explosion in technological development has
meant that this is no longer as true. However the
influence of new emerging material is also
shaping our world is still every bit as significant.
In the early 21st
century we have industrial
ceramic materials , and carbon based materials
such as polymers, strong carbon fibres ,
biomaterials, semiconductor materials and
metallic alloys. Now in the 21st
century we have
many materials including industrial ceramic
materials , silicon materials (as in chip
technology) semiconductor materials , magnetic
materials, polymers, and medical implant
materials . New materials science and technology
now seeks to create specific materials designed
and customized to fulfill specific objectives.