Advancing towards the unknown
Why we're living in an age of fundamental uncertainty, how we should deal with this fact, and what kind of social activism exemplifies that approach.
Why we're living in an age of fundamental uncertainty, how we should deal with this fact, and what kind of social activism exemplifies that approach.
What is complexity? When and why does it arise? How are complex systems different from complicated ones? A simple introduction to the basics, plus a short conference wrap-up.
What to think of accelerating creative destruction, how a missing shared language for innovation hinders a discussion about that, and why sense-making frameworks help us remedy that.
How cognition works, why we are maladapted to the ecological niche we ourselves helped construct, and what technology could contribute to change that.
How products shape our lives, how they fail us, why they do so, and how deep, reflective Product Thinking can help avoiding that.
Science and society deal with complexity – but, judging from the current state of our social and natural world, they don’t seem to be very good at it. Why? And how can we change their behaviour in ways that keep the worst – collapse, catastrophe, and extinction – from happening?
“We are evolved creatures. Our physical attributes, behavioural dispositions, and cognitive capacities have developed in reaction to and by using the environments in which our ancestors, from microbes to modern humans, have reproduced more successfully than their competitors.”
Of all philosophical positions on moral truth, moral realism is probably the most intuitive. It starts by answering two different questions with “yes”: Can moral claims, i.e. propositions employing moral concepts, be true? And if so, are at least some moral claims actually true?
Science tells us we have to act now to avoid catastrophic climate change and stop a mass extinction. But we don’t seem to care. Why?