Now that so many international summits, expert teams, academic communities and grassroots initiatives are seeking ways to resolve "the climate crisis", make our economy "green", our civilization "sustainable" and the world "work for all", we must ask: Is this enough? Or is 'a piece in the puzzle' still missing, without which there are no solutions?
Knowledge Federation Prototype
Knowledge federation is positioned to revolutionize academic work, and the handling of information in general. A prototype of knowledge federation has just been completed. The design challenges and solutions it presents, or its design patterns as we call them, point to the vast and magnificent creative frontier that is opening up. "The tie between information and action has been …
In Conversation with Noah
We could ignore our civilization's ills. Or we could sound an alarm, and be alarmed. But a third option is now available—to co-creatively reverse the destructive trends. And look at the future with optimism. As of January 1, holotopia is no longer only an actionable strategy; it has become a buddying project and initiative. Hear what happened. "Why can't …
White Is the New Black
An actionable strategy to "change course", and create a future that is strictly better than our present.
Tesla and the Nature of Creativity
Have we misunderstood and mishandled creativity? What would it mean to federate a research article? These seemingly unrelated questions are here answered together, by discussing the way in which an unordinary research article about the nature of creativity has been federated. An unordinary way to handle academic creativity is thereby also proposed. If I knew where the good …
A Childhood Memory
What's all the fuss about a new approach to knowledge? What is Dino really talking about? If you are still wondering, perhaps this vignette might be of help. It is intended to serve as a parable. I don't recall how Pasha and I ended up in that meeting of our school's pupils' committee. It must have …
Knowledge Federation in a Nutshell
Knowledge federation might be the most straightforward idea that's ever been academically proposed. Knowledge and information being human creations and the very lifeblood of our society, we are proposing to handle them as we handle our other creations—to suit them to the core purposes that must be served. This metaphorical image, called Modernity ideogram, motivates our proposal. By depicting …
Knowledge Federation dot Org
In what way shall we understand and handle the issues that challenge our lives and times? How shall we best take advantage of our key resource—creativity? Knowledge Federation proposes to create a guiding light! I am grateful to Vibeke Jensen and David Price for reading versions of this text and suggesting improvements. If you had …
My Career as an Experiment
Acknowledgment: I am grateful to David Price and Fredrik Refsli for reviewing an early draft of this essay and suggesting valuable improvements. As explained in other posts in this blog, my work during the past two decades has been on an emerging academic and innovation frontier, where structural or 'paradigmatic' changes in the way information is created and used are being …
Eight vignettes to evangelize a paradigm
Imagine people seated around a table, with some Lego blocks-like pieces of technology scattered on its top. (This is of course a metaphor: CollaboFramework – those "pieces of technology" – resides on a server hosted by our institute at the University of Oslo, which those "people around the table" can access through their PCs, while being physically located anywhere …
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