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“To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple. Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerilla resistance. Here is ideology, pure if not serene. Here is ideology without words, and all the more powerful for their absence. All that is required to make it stick is a population that devoutly believes in the inevitability of progress. And in this sense all Americans are Marxists, for we believe nothing if not that history is moving us toward some preordained paradise and that technology is the force behind that movement.”
Emergency: Ignite social wild fire & make idea love publicly
Repost from: Emergent Transformation: (Next Step to) ignite a social wild fire & make idea sex publicly :) with subjective modifications (the title, the suggested new name for the movement (hope it sticks!) via Pippin, and the blockquotes below):
Salut emergent fellows :)
I had an epiphany yesterday when I spoke to an influential German journalist who covers Silicon Valley, and realized that she was utterly clueless about how startups in Silicon Valley actually work, much less the big picture trends this group is trying to define.
I was “violently” reminded that it is our responsibility to enlighten society about the emergent ventures that are catalyzing this socioeconomic transformation that we’ve been discussing. We need to help mainstream society understand the implications of the opportunities that ventures like Kiva, oDesk, Asset map and Supercool School are creating for the world.
Therefore, the next step to further our discussion is to: make it public :)!
In the next few months we will ignite a social wild fire that brings to light the ventures that are helping to unleash latent human capacity. It’s important to constantly refer to the ventures that are actually manifesting and creating this transformation, thereby building momentum.
It is our goal to be the catalysts that initiate the transfer of awareness about the ventures that are driving this disruptive socioeconomic transformation from the edge to the center.
To achieve that we need 50 brief & energetic blogposts about the “emergent socioeconomic transformation” that we started discussing a couple of weeks ago.
How this will work?
Everybody writes one or more blog posts
+ refers to at least three other blog posts + three or more people from the google group
+ all of these blog posts will be posted on one central blog
@ http://www.emergenttransformation.com
We can also steal a term from this TED video and call this public idea sex :)!!
Or sublimate and call it public idea love - which aims to give birth to something in addition to being a pleasure.
Some questions to get you thinking about these blogposts:
THE CHANGE
- Why is this transformation happening and why is it an opportunity?
- What are the larger trends that are shaping this transformation? (i.e. global economic recession, interconnectivity via the web, new generation of people with a different ideologies/value systems taking positions of power/influence)
- What are the changing value systems that are enabling this trend?
WHO IS MAKING THIS HAPPEN
- Examples of people and companies who are making it happen right now.
HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE AND WHY
-Why and how are YOU contributing to this bigger picture trend?
- Why is it our responsibility to be the catalysts for this change?
- How can somebody else contribute to this global transformation?
HOW ARE/MIGHT WE REACT
- How will this transformation affect our current socio-economic structures? How can we make this transition smoother?
- What are the types of lifestyle choices that people are now making that show they want this ‘emergent socioeconomic transformation’ to happen? Or the choices people are already making to make it happen now?
Some keywords you may use:
- human capacity
- transformation
- access
- recources
… here are the first three blogposts:
- blogpost by Nathaniel
- blogpost by Alexandros
- blogpost by Nirav
Cheers,
Max, Venessa, Mathias, Fadi, Claudia, Dhaval, Alexandros, Bjoern & many more
PS: This was created in a crazy piratepad session … http://piratepad.net/Gnx1dOUDVl
An emerging movement
On July 7th 2010 at NASA Ames Research Center, I was part of a group of people who met in one of the buildings assigned to Singularity University.
We came from different backgrounds and countries but all of us could feel that something momentous is happening.
Never in the history of the world has there been so many daily attempts across different time zones to overcome the barriers from an idea to reality. Never has it been easier to do something that you consider valuable. Never has it been easier to share what you know and work with others.
We feel that it is time to name and acknowledge a movement under which companies and individuals would accelerate the overcoming of barriers to value creation in innovative ways through sharing best practices and resources.
Here’s a diagrammatic summary (click to enlarge):
