The Nature of the Future

what happens to capitalism when scarcity has been turned to plenty: “Does it just go on

Our response has been to outsource citizenship, that is, participation in major decisions of our state, to specialists—a professional class of politicians aided by professional opinion makers and enabled by big-money interests—and allow them to make decisions for us.

Think about maps, for example. Maps of all kinds (political, economic, ecological) aggregate data to create representations of reality. But these are top-down views, often representing political and power relations that determine what gets mapped and what gets left out as much as how things are

don’t subscribe to news sites, I subscribe to people who are experts in space.”4

High profit margins are not the only problem with the existing academic publishing model. In many ways the model slows down the scientific discovery process and makes many of the results unavailable to the public due to the high cost of access (despite the fact that much of the research supporting publication is funded with public money through gov

First, it is clear that much new value and innovation will move from commodity- or market-based production to socialstructed creation.

Think of it as a kind of Google Earth for society. And

Today the World Game continues to be played across universities and is currently being further developed by o.s.Earth. John Hunter, a public school teacher in Virginia, carries the torch lit by Fuller by engaging his grade-school students in playing the World Peace Game, which he describes in a TED Talk.34 In a similar but more far-reaching

and also indicating which politicians have a voting record that reflects these priorities.