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The challenge: Be realistic imagine the

impossible paris 1968

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Transition

Transition [is weird]


trailblazers

hospicing of old system

the emergence of a new system

collapse of system

the death and life of eco-systems


Overwhelmed by complexity


#nhs #sovereign debt #phonehacking

#pensions #nokia #kodak

#identity alan moore | www.smlxtralarge.com | no straight lines introduction 2012

Social Organisation

Economic

complexity

complexity complexity

Organisational, social, economic change


An ambiguous world alan moore | www.smlxtralarge.com | no straight lines introduction 2012

System Upgrade


the Human-OS alan moore | www.smlxtralarge.com | no straight lines introduction 2012

What does technology

want ?


OPPORTUNITY FREEDOM

EMPOWERMENT MUTUALISM DIVERSITY

EFFICIENCY INDEPENDENCE

BEAUTY


A connective communications

membrane wrapping itself around

the earth


Me, We. Jung re-wired for the 21st Century


“Me We” Ali’s shortest poem


Up Helly Aa Identity + Community

the social fabric of life = knowable communities



Identity is deeply networked & interwoven


I + We = why?


Communication?


Communion alan moore | www.smlxtralarge.com | no straight lines introduction 2012

Co-created culture [transendence]


Participatory culture



POWER

When you get institutional failure, people learn to get what they need

from each other


A technological revolution…


…or, a social one? alan moore | www.smlxtralarge.com | no straight lines introduction 2012

How can we?

In the classrooms of our schools, In the waiting rooms of our hospitals, On the floors of our factories, and, in our villages, towns and cities we are no longer content with the current status quo and we are asking not what if – but…


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’…

How do we design better for societies, organisations, and commerce – all at the same time?

Social Organisation

Economic

NEW


The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible

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6principles challenges

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To a best possible future

[1] Ambiguity

Learning to deal with an uncertain

world


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for FARMING

How do we remove the acute volatility and therefore risk of running large scale farms?


Systems thinking


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for BUSINESS

How do we discover a new sustaining business model?


Wisdom to listen deeply, courage to explore

Markets: participatory, cultural, redistributive


[2] Adaptiveness Creating,

Collaborating, Critiquing,

Communicating


Language to describe our world


Open The default setting is

[3]


[4] Participatory cultures

& tools


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for FARMING

How do we as practioners and users discover our best possible future for our healthcare system?


[5] Craftmanship

The maker of civilisation the development of new insight, technique and

creativity


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for VENTURE FUNDING

How do we create the next Silicon Valley not as a place but as a platform? That would ignite entrepreneurship and unleash innovation at an international scale?


Surfacesignals

The NEXT Silicon Valley is not a place it’s a platform


[6] Epic: seek epic wins


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for UK POVERTY

How do we get 10% of UK’s population (6m+) who do not have any access to credit or a bank account access to a bank designed for them? Meaning no more loansharking, criminal rates of interest, locking 6m into poverty.


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for HEALTHCARE

How do we create a service to better manage people’s chronic health care? Reducing; wrong diagnosis, over prescription of drugs, clogging up hospitals and specialist time.

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The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for organisations

How do we build new operational capability, and commercial viability by thinking about the organisation as a platform, existing within an eco-system?


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for POVERTY

How do we enable 2bn + people in poverty to increase their earnings from $2 to $4 a day by using mobile communications technology?


NSL MODEL FOR TRANSFORATION Designing for the ‘Human OS’

Embracing ambiguity

Learning to be adaptive

Participatory cultures and tools Openness is resilience

The almost forgotten art

of Craftsmanship

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