Envisioning our global cultural evolution this coming decade
DC Plexus Fractal June Meeting
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 6:30-8:30pm
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, Conference Room A
4805 Edgemoor Lane – 2nd Floor Bethesda, Maryland 20814
(across from Red Line Metro Bethesda)
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There is no fee to attend this evening and everyone is welcome! Please feel free to share this invitation with others!
Join Phil Nelson, Ph.D. to co-create a positive vision of our desired global future for the upcoming decade of radical change.
This decade will be a season of wrenching transition as global resources and institutions collapse and we collaboratively find and create new and better resources and institutions.
Around 2015, these 3 forces will begin synergistically converging:
1) accelerating technology change and convergence, intimately connecting us and driving global integration and cultural evolution,
2) research on optimal human functioning, learning, resilience and happiness, and
3) triggered by these forces, the maturing human mind, heart, spirit and culture as an integrating force.
Consensus of several leading futurists is that we will enter the “Singularity” or Unity of the global brain/heart/spirit around 2045. In 2010–2020 we will build much of the global resources and collaborative structures to take us there. Cultural evolution (like biological evolution) differentiates into specializations and then reintegrates into a higher synergistic complexity (like single cells to multi-cell unity). The evolution of stronger bricks has required stronger mortar; similarly, the cultural “evolutionary 2-step” builds stronger individuals, and then bonds them with a stronger culture. So prepare to become “the best that you can be” for our next cultural evolutionary leap.
We may need many on-line, self-organizing, grass-roots, mid-level and top level creative teams to apply the myriads of coming breakthroughs and technologies to first solve our environmental problems and later to exploit the vast opportunities that these accelerating breakthroughs present.
What kind of individual and culture is needed to facilitate wise employment of these accelerating breakthroughs and opportunities? Join us in dialogue about the positive human possibilities that we can envision together to take us all through this next cultural evolution.
These 5 sources provide the backdrop for my presentation:
1. Ray Kurzweil’s, “The Singularity Is Near,”
2. Bill Halal’s TechCast http://www.techcast.org/ consider clicking on the “Strategic Breakthroughs” chart on the right plus one of the bubbles like “Information Technology” in the column on the right.
3. The field of “Spiral Dynamics” on cultural evolution,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
4. The Fourth Turning, by William Strauss and Neil Howe, and
5. “Positive Psychology” research on Happiness and optimal human functioning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology
Phil Nelson, Ph.D., is and organization development (OD) Consultant, management trainer, and certified Success Coach. As a long-term futurist, he is a member of TechCast’s 100 experts who use the wisdom of the informed crowd to predict the timing and market value of 60+ technologies. His background includes: Management trainer and internal OD consultant for over 15 years in the federal government, Graduate of West Point, airborne infantry, Army Captain, Member of Mensa, the high IQ society. Enjoys playing piano and tennis (not at the same time). At age 70, he is actively retired and follows Ray Kurzweil’s “Transcend” comprehensive book on healthy longevity.
Posted: June 1st, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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