When I interviewed Charles Eisenstein, author of the book "Sacred Economics," for the Interviews with the Leading Edge series, one of the things Charles discussed is what he calls the gift economy. A gift economy is one in which people act in a way without profit motive as their primary reason for doing something. Instead, they perform their service or sell their wares, and let others decide a dollar value for that service. Radiohead used this … [Read more...]
Open Future, Liquid Networks and Crowdfunding
As I've stated in my previous articles on an open future, Towards an Open Future and 12 Trends - Now and Future - of an Open World, creating a more open world is truly the path towards creating a better tomorrow. A more open world is the hope of the future - it is the key to a more enlightened future, one that can allow us to live more peacefully with one another in a very sustainable way. A more open future is predicated on people being more … [Read more...]
12 Trends – Now and Future – of an Open World
In my previous article, Towards an Open Future, I discussed the two type of systems that operate in the world: Open systems and closed systems. The hope for the future lies in open systems, and that is where the potential for the success of the brewing Quantum Revolution also lies. In that article, I said how closed systems are rigid and mechanistic, and continue doing the same thing and operating in the same way, even if the approach has proven … [Read more...]
Towards an Open Future
“There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics, I refer to the infinite.” – Jorge Luis Borges, in Avatars of the Tortoise Let's start with a basic supposition: open systems succeed, while closed systems fail. What do I mean by a system? A system is anything comprised of complexity: it can be one single individual or a group, forming a collective or organization. An … [Read more...]