old keys won't open new doors
One thing I am starting to get the hang of is igniting suspicion toward those impulsive solutions which appear at first to make the most logical and rational sense, recognizing that they are probably informed by the same systems that created the problems to begin with.
Nora Bateson, Combining
You can't practice 21st-century strategy inside 20 th -century structures. Everything we've outlined requires one core shift: from extraction to stewardship.
zoe scaman • The Work
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
—Jorge Wagensberg
We grew up in societies built upon certain assumptions about how the world works, and how the planet around us should be seen. We now know those assumptions were wrong in profound ways,
Alex Steffen • Old thinking will break your brain.
Many of us have clear visions of what kind of world we don’t want to live in, but are struggling to imagine the kind of world we would live in - let alone how to build that world. We need new narratives to illuminate what’s broken in our society and hands-on solutions for a more sustainable, equal and resilient world.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
Erwin Schödinger: “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
the overarching early 21st-century conundrum is not so much about problem-solving or policy innovation, but primarily a challenge of perception and imagination
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
foresight has (generally) been looking to solve present-day problems that exist as a direct result of the life-draining systems that we presently inhabi t.