The Venus Project - the redesign of a culture.
Connetted - a declaration of a worldwide charter of very elementary principles for a permanent and peaceful human living together.
The Global Ideas Bank - (1000+)
Within Ourselves lives the Real Story - Jeffrey Courion's home page
Design Earth Synergy - (20+) Community co-visionary strategic action / planning centers.
FreeLand - Joachim's vision of an island community.
HoloWorld - (40+) Flemming's developing model of a better society.
Factasia - dedicated to constructive, imaginative and positive thinking about the future. .
Vision of the 21st Century - by HeeSik Song, Korea.
Orient Renaissance
Academy for New Civilization
"We are the New Civilization" - a poetic manifesto by Flemming Funch.
To see the answer to this ultimate question, we have only to put side by side the two equations which have been gradually
formulating themselves from the moment we began trying to situate the phenomenon of man in the world.
The general gathering together in which, by correlated actions of the without and the within of the earth, the totality of
thinking units and thinking forces are engaged---the aggregation in a single block of a mankind whose fragments weld
together and interpenetrate before our eyes in spite of (indeed in proportion to) their efforts to separate--all this becomes
intelligible from top to bottom as soon as we perceive it as the natural culm ination of a cosmic process of organisation which
has never varied since those remote ages when our planet was young.
First the molecules of carbon compounds with their thousands of atoms symmetrically grouped; next the cell which, within a
very small volume, contains thousands of molecules linked in a complicated system; then the metazoa in which the cell is no
more than an almost infinitesimal element; and later the manifold attempts made sporadically by the metazoa to enter into
symbiosis and raise themselves to a higher biological condition.
And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and
intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.
Really I can see no coherent, and therefore scientific, way of grouping this immense succession of facts but as a gigantic
psycho-biological operation, a sort of mega-synthesis, the 'super-arrangement' to which all the thinking elements of the earth
find themselves today individually and collectively subject.
Mega-synthesis in the tangential, and therefore and thereby a leap forward of the radial energies along the principal axis of
evolution: ever more complexity and thus ever more consciousness.
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But why should there be unification in the world and what purpose does it serve?
Future Vision Links
New Civilization Symphony, by William B. Robertson, © 1984.
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