Remember GoBots from the mid 80s? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobots
Each individual robot was a force fighting for good. But to tackle a significant threat they would join together to become something greater and more powerful than their individual parts.
This is the future we are building. People are the smallest unit. The small businesses and organizations are the next biggest unit. Each one is flexible, able to understand its whole business end-to-end, and able to feel how to integrate best with community for the greatest good.
How these units become greater than their sum is by combining and sharing information. Through databases, knowledge bases, and internet communities these businesses will learn from each other. Each business/organization becomes better through this shared information.
In the future, big won’t be about economies of scale – bigger companies, bigger buildings, more employees. Big will be economies of information shared among many small entities.
Even if robots aren’t included, there will be exciting times ahead.
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I am really enjoying reading your posts- I feel they express a wise recognition of an effective direction to take in the present time, individually and as a society. I’ve been studying what is broken and breaking in the world for a couple years now- it’s been helpful for learning what not to pursue- but the time comes when it becomes apparent that the solution for what is harmful is to begin creating what is good. I have been studying Rudolf Steiner’s “Three-fold Social Order” as a working blueprint for what could be an effective way to begin creating a civilization aligned with human dignity. Your ideas consistently resonate with that study. I’m confident that something good is emerging in the world, and your writing confirms that.
Jed~ Great to meet you. Thanks for your thoughts. I will check out the Steiner book. I agree that something good is emerging in the world… and that at some point we must just create what is good no matter how small.