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We live in societies around the world where “experts” run the show. Given the profound changes that are unfolding in our global economies and societies, we need to shift to explorers who can help us craft new pathways that can create far more value for all of us.
johnhagel.com • From Expert to Explorer
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
I discovered that there were people the world over asking questions, large and small, about how things could be otherwise in schools, in neighbourhoods, in our relationship to nature, in our approach to health care, in how we spend our time and attention, even using it as the basis for reimagining the economic and democratic realities of their citi
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
First, as we learn more about the processes by which the past manufactures the future, we will use that knowledge to accelerate the growth of digital infrastructure, provide more secure stewardship of collective and personal memory, and reduce the risk of losing our past. Second, we will gain understanding of the complex processes by which Nature o
... See moreAbby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
We can’t predict the future, but we can explore
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximize the human potential. Indeed, we have no idea what our full human potential is, because we know so little about the human mind. And yet we don’t invest much in exploring t
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
One of the fundamental challenges this book has identified is that we need to be able to imagine positive, feasible, delightful versions of the future before we can create them. Not utopias, but futures where things turned out OK.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
One of the fundamental challenges this book has identified is that we need to be able to imagine positive, feasible, delightful versions of the future before we can create them. Not utopias, but futures where things turned out OK.