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Futures - The Great Turn
Carine Dartiguepeyrou, Michel Saloff Coste
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R3,754
Discovery Miles 37 540
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In the same way as there are many futures, not just one, there are
many ways to conceive and practice foresight. The challenge of the
great turning point of our civilization is to free ourselves from
our prejudices in order to imagine and build desirable futures. The
process is, by nature, ethical and prospective. In a complex,
uncertain and geopolitically transforming world, we must be open to
the diversity of cultures and the different perceptions of the
future. This requires us to reflect on the purpose and means of our
societies. Futures proposes different cultural and ethical views on
civilizational transformation by offering a rare, transnational
panorama of the visions of the future in a European, American and
Chinese context. Through numerous examples, this book illustrates
how foresight is practiced and what this can achieve in strategic
terms.
Humanity has never faced a challenge such as the one we face today.
It is not the destiny of a single civilization, nor of a single
nation that is at stake, but the destiny of each and every person.
We have the power to define that destiny, and while we now have the
technological capacity to realize our oldest dreams, we also face
the nightmare of annihilation by the weapons we ourselves have
made. Now we experience a challenge in which we must risk
ourselves, and either we will lose reality, or we will access our
own essence. In this game, we do not have the option of choosing
double or nothing, for we will win the first time or not at all, as
we will not have a second chance. The lightning progression of
science accompanied by the consequent degradation of the health of
the planet means that there can be no delay. Each day, by the
efforts that we make in the full search for our humanity, we
increase the odds of success, while each day that we pass in
unconsciousness brings us towards nothingness. We face, ultimately,
the choice between love and death. This book presents a new
approach to the reality that emerges today from the edges of our
awareness to the forefront of a planetary awareness. After the eras
of hunting and gathering, agriculture, and industrialism, we are
falling into a new type of society based on Creation and
Communication. The beginning of a new era brings with it a flood of
questions, including these: How does our current situation compare
with the preceding stages of the development of humanity? What
tools do we need to face the current context? How shall we use
these tools to bring the peace and planetary harmony necessary for
the survival of the species? The time of change Today there is a
pervasive anxiety in the face of the increasingly rapid evolution
of our society, and the changes that affect individuals, companies,
and nations. While the great majority of trades of tomorrow are
unknown, the average person born into the next generation will
change careers five times during their professional lives. This
kind of shift creates a problematic gap between those who know how
to take advantage of change, and those who, on the contrary, merely
struggle to endure it. Change = Danger + Possibilities The reaction
to change, whether negative or positive, depends on how one looks
at it. While some see only the increasing dangers, while others see
new possibilities, today's change is in fact the one and the other.
States, companies, and individuals that concentrate only on
opportunities seek to escape, and although might appear brilliant
and successful, they accumulate problems that, in the end,
undermine the appearance. Conversely, to see only the danger is to
fall into defeatism, blind and fruitless. These do not see that in
change, the sources of problems also offer the means to find
solutions, for change empowers innovation.
Being a forerunner of contemporary art, I created a new trend, a
new "school" clashing with the common themes and the traditional
expression media: "the cosmic art." I consider the cosmos as a
topic, but also as an expression support. Each painting is a
proposition of a drawing, a destiny or a planetary "design" from a
scientific point of view, but it is also a celebration of beauty
and the diversity of outer space from an artistic point of view.
And finally, on a spiritual level, each painting can be seen as a
mandala, a meditation support to connect with the essential, beyond
life and death, in the framework of a Jungian psychological
perspective. Socially, this series of paintings is the opportunity
to incite reflection on the finitude of our planet and the way we
are changing our lives, for better or worse. The money raised by
selling the planet series is being used to run a systemic research
and innovation program open internationally, "Design me a Planet."
Through "Design Me a Planet" I invite the different stakeholders of
the world to democratically discuss and create a real global
program, viable and exciting through its beauty, its generousness
and its truth.
Our current situation, marked simultaneously by the Anthropocene,
global warming, digitization and exponential artificial
intelligence, leads us to sudden and total change in global
civilization and, de facto, to rebuilding the foundations of the
international economy. Innovation Ecosystems explores the risks and
opportunities facing the contemporary world by analyzing, comparing
and categorizing the world's most dynamic innovation ecosystems by
region and city. This includes the identification of key
characteristics - common or original - and learning from them in
terms of culture, management, system and structure, in order to
meet current challenges and think about civilizations of the
future.
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