Re:Is discourse on capitalism and it's alternatives possible...
by gardenfelder on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:43PM
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I believe that the answer is YES!
The trick seems to lie in the space where ego-centric participation transitions to eco-centric participation.
The late Douglas Engelbart - famous for the mouse and related technology - argued that "human systems and tool systems" must co-evolve. What that translates - in my view - is to evolve tool systems (IT, web portals, etc) way beyond global chat rooms like Facebook, Twitter, and so forth in such a way that the human system has an opportunity to evolve away from its basic instincts of greed, identity politics, and so forth.
A prospective solution for that lies in the metaphoric marriage of World of Warcraft and global sensemaking. As John Seely Brown said in a 6 minute youtube:
"I would rather hire a high-level World of Warcraft player than an MBA from Harvard".
In those words, he spoke volumes about how the right kind of IT could go a long way towards the improved human capabilities about which Engelbart spoke.
My tiny non-profit is exploring that space; we have a really rough engineering prototype now online - it is just an engineering prototype, with a lot of work left in UX, but it can be viewed at https://sensecraft.garden/ . Don't expect any public quests of value until maybe early next year. Tons of work left to do on it.
The trick seems to lie in the space where ego-centric participation transitions to eco-centric participation.
The late Douglas Engelbart - famous for the mouse and related technology - argued that "human systems and tool systems" must co-evolve. What that translates - in my view - is to evolve tool systems (IT, web portals, etc) way beyond global chat rooms like Facebook, Twitter, and so forth in such a way that the human system has an opportunity to evolve away from its basic instincts of greed, identity politics, and so forth.
A prospective solution for that lies in the metaphoric marriage of World of Warcraft and global sensemaking. As John Seely Brown said in a 6 minute youtube:
"I would rather hire a high-level World of Warcraft player than an MBA from Harvard".
In those words, he spoke volumes about how the right kind of IT could go a long way towards the improved human capabilities about which Engelbart spoke.
My tiny non-profit is exploring that space; we have a really rough engineering prototype now online - it is just an engineering prototype, with a lot of work left in UX, but it can be viewed at https://sensecraft.garden/ . Don't expect any public quests of value until maybe early next year. Tons of work left to do on it.