The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we
struggle with this question, we face others. How do we handle ideas
and knowledge, both our own and those of others? What relationship
to ideas do we want? Whose ideas do we want to be surrounded by?
Where do we want to think? Most choose, or have the choice made for
them, according to what family, colleagues, and friends do and say
and what we read about, and a more or less rational calculation of
the odds.
Modern ecology results from the shift in thinking generated by
quantum physics and systems theory, from the old view based on
reductionism, mechanics, and fixed quantities to a new view based
on holistic systems where qualities are contingent on the observer
and on each other. This perception changes how people treat ideas
and facts, certainties and uncertainties, and affects both art and
science. Worldwide it is part of the process of understanding the
current crisis in the environment, and the balance of economy,
creativity, and control required in our response.
The book's starting point is the growing role that information
has played in industrial economies since the 1800s and especially
in the last thirty years. It is an attempt to identify ecology of
thinking and learning. It is also based on the need to escape from
old, industrial ways and become more attuned to how people actually
borrow, develop, and share ideas. Throughout the book, Howkins asks
questions and offers signposts. He gives no guarantee that creative
ecologies will be sustainable, but shows what should be aimed
for.
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