photo by Gary Wilson GLEICK BEGAN WITH H.G. WELLS’S 1895 BOOK The Time Machine, which created the idea of time travel. It soon became a hugely popular genre that shows no sign of abating more than a century later. “Science fiction is a way of working out ideas,” Gleick said. Wells thought of himself as a […]
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photo by Gary Wilson WEST FOCUSSED ON CITIES in his discussion of the newly discovered exponential scaling laws that govern everything alive. “We live,” he said, “in an exponentially expanding socio-economic universe.” Global urbanization has reached the point that there are a million new people arriving in cities every week, and that rate is expected to
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photo by Gary Wilson IN ONE OF LONG NOW’S MOST MOVING TALKS, Ostaseski began: “I’m not romantic about dying. This is the hardest work you will ever do. It is tough. It’s sad and it’s messy and it’s cruel and it’s beautiful sometimes and mysterious, but above all that, it’s normal. It’s a boat we’re all
This is the first in a series of articles examining events that may occur in the near future. Events that would define the futures that come after them. I call such moments “cusps” because decisions made during these critical moments effect the subsequent unfolding of the future in profound ways. While the fictional events in this
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How parenting and politics are linked Can we talk about where stories come from? I think some of them emerge from the dark. The stories that drive us most powerfully were born in the shadows of what we don’t remember. And the strongest story of all may be the one that tells us whether we are
photo by Gary Wilson LOMBORG OPENED WITH A PHOTO FROM HAITI, showing a young girl dressed for school wading through the muck and garbage of a slum, with pigs in the muck right behind her. Lomborg was just back from working with the government of Haiti and the Canadian Development Agency to prioritize aid projects there.
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Features, Front Page, Issue 11 Features Creative Entropy vs Evolutionary Purpose ON MARCH 8, 2017 BY STAFF 1 COMMENT By Frederic Laloux and originally published on medium.com in response to an article by Tom Nixon. Dear Tom, Always interesting to read what you write. And good to see that Reinventing Organizations has gotten so much traction that it
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So, You Want to Become a (Better) Teal Mentor? – Enlivening Edge ON MARCH 8, 2017 BY GEORGE PÓR NO COMMENTS By George Pór for Enlivening Edge Magazine Here are some serious (and some not-so-serious) injunctions for budding Teal mentors: Don’t Take yourself too seriously Put people in boxes labeled by Spiral colors or anything Obey commands, including this one
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photo by Gary Wilson PAHLKA QUOTED: “EFFICIENCY IN GOVERNMENT IS A MATTER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.” (Mayor John Norquist) It is at the often maddening interface with government that the inefficiency and injustice play out. Two examples (both now fixed)… At the Veterans Affairs website, you needed to fill out the application for health benefits, but the
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