221R_Rethinking the future: The path to freedom (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in rethinking the future?

Summary of the article titled Rethinking the future: The path to freedom from 2020 by James Arbib and Tony Seba, published on the RethinkX website.

This is a great preparation to our next interview with Adam Dorr in episode 222 talking about rethinking the future in a brighter way.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether a new organising system could help avoid societal collapse in the future. This article investigates changes, choices, challenges and opportunities for a new system with extraordinary potentials to emerge.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

1. Our society faces a critical choice between clinging to outdated systems and risking collapse, or embracing new systems that adapt to modern challenges and technologies, potentially eradicating poverty and improving global quality of life.
2. Historically, societies often resist change until it's too late, leading to collapse, thus embracing change and avoiding the inertia of old systems is crucial for avoiding a dystopian future where power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
3. For the first time in history, we have the chance to proactively create a new organizing system before our current one fails which involves rethinking our current systems, encouraging flexible and adaptable new approaches, and managing a potentially tumultuous transition to ensure a fair and prosperous future.

You can find the article through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.101R - What we owe the future (book summary)
• No.178R - Brighter (book summary)

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