It’s Time . . .
The Accelerative Thrust
With Powerful Changes Swirling Around Us and Demanding Ever Quicker Responses,
It Often Feels as Though We are Swimming Faster and Faster Against a Huge, Unstoppable Wave.
And — We Are
Perhaps Like the Surfer—
We Should Use the Energy of the Wave Itself to Carry Us Forward
The 3rd Wave Disruption
The 1st Wave of Change —the Agricultural Revolution
Took Thousands of Years to Play Itself Out
The 2nd Wave—the Rise of Industrial Civilization
Took a Mere Three Hundred Years
Today, the ADVANCING WAVE is Even More ACCELERATIVE
THE 3rd WAVE— The Knowledge Age
It’s Sweeping Across History and Will Complete Itself in a Couple Decades
Those of Us Who Happen to Share the Planet at this Explosive Moment,
Will Feel the Full Impact of THE 3rd WAVE
—Alvin Toffler—
This is the New Amazing!
This is the Trip We’re Taking
Humanity Faces a Quantum Leap Forward
We are Experiencing the Birth Pangs of a New Civilization
Whose Institutions are Not Yet in Place
This NEW WORLD Brings
New Family Styles, Changed Ways of Working, Loving and Living, New Economy, New Sources of Energy,
and New Political Conflicts as well
The Greatest Social Restructuring of All Time!
The Greedy & Blind Try to Suppress and Control It
This is The Chance We’re Taking !
We Must Identify Each New Technology Challenge
We Have to Match Each Challenge with a Dynamic and Flexible Community Approach
—Albert Einstein—
No One Knows What the Future Holds or
What Will Work Best in a Third Wave Society
For this Reason, We Should Think
— Not of a Single Massive Reorganization —
But Many Conscious, Decentralized Local Projects to Validate New Technologies and Lifestyle Models for Advancing Lives in Our Communities and Sharing the Knowledge
— Open Validation of Emerging Technologies
& Community Participation —
Adaptive Communities are Enablers, Empowering People with Relevant Functional Experience and Awareness for Negotiating Rapid Change
The Race to the Bottom that Globalization has Triggered is No Longer a Viable Strategy for a Knowledge Economy
Economic Actors Will Increasingly Understand that They Should Invest in Producing Collaborative Value
and Creating Collaborative Economic Ecosystems
that Foster Creativity, Knowledge, Identity, and Trust
The Best Way to Predict Your Future is to Create It
—Abraham Lincoln—
“And Yet The Dawn Is Ours Before We Knew It ..”
—Amanda Gorman—
U.S. National Youth Poet Laureate
Hillary Cottam – Social Services are Broken. How We Can Fix Them
This is Where We Stand
We and Our Children Will Experience Unrivaled Social Advances !
Unprecedented Opportunities Exist for Each of Us,
Our Families, Friends
and Neighbors
This is The Way to Wonder!
This is Me and You
“Progress Lies Not in Enhancing What Is,
But in Advancing Toward What Will Be”
— Khalil Gibran —
Change Favors the Prepared,
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