Information Age Coming of Age

As in every epoch of its existence, mankind today finds itself in a particular “situation”. And as always this situation is created and nurtured by those who live amid the myriad events that comprise it—events that now are in the process of tumultuous and ever accelerating change, events that now increasingly and even violently clash with …

Foundation Frontier

I wrote this title to suggest: something attractive—a “frontier” opening up, in academia and knowledge work at large, where we can update the very foundation of what we do; something hidden—as a “foundation” tends to be, this frontier is, as it were, ‘hidden under the ground,’ and we have as challenge to make it visible. …

Knowledge Federation – an Enabler of Systemic Innovation

Imagine that you are a journalist; and that one day you wake up thinking: “It really makes no sense to be a journalist while the things are as they are. It is not clear that journalism can still make money (in a world with abundant free information). And it is not clear that journalism can …

Boldly Creating a World that Works for All

“Boldly creating a world that works for all” is the motto of the San Francisco Bay Area Future Salon, where I gave my last lecture before leaving the United States, on May 26th, the evening before my flight back to Norway. “I will invite the Future Salon members to a bit of meta-thinking and meta-design,” …

Knowledge Federation Act Two

The  invitation flyer for the Dubrovnik workshop and the new Knowledge Federation website having been completed,  Act Two of Knowledge Federation development is about to begin. You may think of a knowledge federation as a new way of orchestrating knowledge work, which suits the interactive, networked media technology as astutely as the conventional organization suited the …

Knowledge federation elevator pitches

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the key task that remains for knowledge federation is to begin doing it. My key task then is to bring together a suitable creative mix of people and organizations who will be the first members, co-creators and stake holders in the first federation. Every time I talk to …