Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Emergence of a new world and a new human, reflections from a futurist in 1993, applies today.


“The emergence of a new world and a new human. We are on the edge of the most extraordinary shifts in the history of the planet, and they are affecting everything—economics, agriculture, health care, the legal system, ecology, banking. We are seeing how every set of legacy systems we have is fundamentally flawed and now imploding. And what it’s all producing is a vacuum. What’s more, the principles underpinning these systems have the embedded incentives that encourage the behavior creating the implosions. We need to address, in every area, the structural aspects of values. The present economic system is changing, for example—from one where there is no consideration other than profit, to one of larger social structure and integrity. This stuff is not of the future. It’s fundamental to who we are and where we live now.”  - John Petersen Futurist, Philosopher

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