S2.E14: Future Images: Beyond the Information Age
from Purpose Inspired: by Wayne Visser Hosted by Wayne Visser
As the new millennium looms large on the horizon, speculation about humanity’s recent progress are becoming ever more frequent. Even more so are whisperings that humanity might be teetering on the threshold of a new phase in its evolutionary development. Not surprisingly, a search for new images and metaphors to serve as positive visions for the future has begun in earnest. The purpose of this episode is to explore some of the more recent of these images to emerge from the outstanding research and imagination of a few pioneering individuals. A good place to start is to get the Industrial Age well behind us, for it has been a crumbling image for at least the past four decades. In its wake however, we find the explosive rise of a revolutionary successor. I am of course referring to the Information Age. One of the pioneering voices in this regard is American futurist Hazel Henderson. Henderson’s suggested alternative is what she calls a “repatterning of the exploding Information Age” into an emerging new Age of Light.
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As the new millennium looms large on the horizon, speculation about humanity’s recent progress are becoming ever more frequent. Even more so are whisperings that humanity might be teetering on the threshold of a new phase in its evolutionary development. Not surprisingly, a search for new images and metaphors to serve as positive visions for the future has begun in earnest. The purpose of this episode is to explore some of the more recent of these images to emerge from the o...
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