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Small steps forward. It’s helpful in research to step back everyone once in and while and assess or re-assess where you are. I’m happy with this structure (see “reframing”)
- “signals” emanating from Horizon 1
- “transitions emerging in Horizon 2
- “visions” calling from Horizon 3
So far, three visions are taking shape. I’ve been going sources/readings relating to them in hopes of getting a better fix on what the essence of each vision is. In particular, they needed better titles! The hyphenated mixing of two concepts….yuck. So, after much contemplation
and caffeine.
- Abundance/Singularity renamed Tech-led Abundance. A struggle here, as the Singularity is often thought of as a vision, but almost by definition it really isn’t – we can’t know what’s on the other side of the Singularity. Not very helpful in terms of vision-building. What’s associated with the Singularity is the high-tech future. Abundance is as well. And Abundance is more of an economic concept. The core idea is that this is the tech-fix scenario (whatever it’s ultimately called).
- Non-workers’ Paradise stays the same. The best title of course is not mine. I started with Workers Paradise as a placeholder for what I was calling the “Reformed Left” concept. A colleague, Christopher Farrow, pointed out that the vision was about “not working,” thus the clever addition of non-
- Sustainability renamed Sustainable Commons. Sustainability is a bit of a mixed bag – on the one hand, it describes current activities and on the other it is very well-known. The works comprising this concept sort into environmentally inclined or morality-based or purpose driven – often combining the two. I have been really influenced by arguments about moving to a more commons-based approach – particularly by Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics. The “commons” idea may be key here.
Let’s also keep in mind that there are visions of collapse that needed to be accounted for. But the emphasis, really the purpose of this work is to identify positive visions.
As I think about refining the visions, I see the rabbit hole of “what are the key components of a transformational vision? – Andy Hines
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