Future of Media

'Future Media' is the book title that jumped out from the shelf at me while I was sitting at the library today.  The back cover explained what to expect between the covers:

"Combining their prescient nonfiction and fiction, Future Media showcases ... innovative explorations of the mass media...  Both cautionary and optimistic, this groundbreaking anthology offers challenging, engaging predictions of a future that will not be ignored."

It sounded great except for the bit about 'mass media'.

Because of the internet, mass media will continue to disintegrate even further beyond the 1000-channel cable bundles.  Ultimately the outcome is decentralization of the power to influence and persuade.

What will be new about the media in future will be a YouTube channel for every neighbourhood featuring the work, aspirations and needs of entrepreneurs.  You will check out interviews with local entrepreneurs and know who you want to connect with and help in some way.

We have seen the rise of social entrepreneurs who have missions of supporting a new kind of society.  People are making money out of entrepreneurs who deeply want to support neighbourhoods.  Centres or hubs for social entrepreneurs provide services and venues for gathering and collaborations.

City councilors and economic development departments understand and support this concept of a home for entrepreneurs to incubate projects.  It's another aspect of building management.

There are other trends in business besides social missions. Entrepreneurs have started to get into energy supply, ecological clean-up / recycling, re-purposing of material that would otherwise go to landfill, education, and community animation. 

What has been missing in all this innovation is ways for neighbourhoods to support entrepreneurs.  That's where neighbourhood YouTube channels come in, that link video interviews to wish-lists.  Neighbours can find ways to support the local start-ups instead of waiting for the start-ups to support them during times of increasing instability.

Changing the world will continue to involve a massive number of new initiatives.  It is not a mega project.

We can create a future that benefits everyone when we help business start-ups that we feel warrant our support.  Media can help us make those decisions.  

We need building managers for entrepreneurs.  Help for entrepreneurs in other forms are also necessary.  To find out more - here is a link to the QUEEN EAST Agency website.  I hope you will recognize that the future of media is partly local, and partly a means for us to help create a new kind of world. 

Organizing for Understanding Freedom and Sustainability

We had a spirited session at the Intro Evening on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. 
 
Thanks to those of you who came to one or both meetings in October, and for your interest.

We have since launched a website for an agency where members of our association will represent us and our projects.  Our sponsored ad for the Intro Evenings ran in the first issue of Rapture - a newspaper dedicated to bridging spirituality, science and art.

Starting on November 11 at noon we will have the first Interim Meeting at the same location, (25 Sandale Gardens in Toronto near Sheppard and Bathurst - see Googlemaps for detailed directions ) and will begin identifying the best means to become an association that takes advantage of opportunities for –

1. moving the world agenda forward based on members’ existing projects and spheres of influence,
2. determining a self-sustaining and integrative direction for humanity where all can contribute and no-one is left behind,
3. promoting innovation in terms of how society adopts new learning and insights,
4. revealing convincing means for society to understand the consequences of actions taken,

At this Interim Meeting November 11, I am looking forward to showing you and discussing the actual business model - as developed to date - on how we organize as a self-organizing system.

Some of us have contacts in other parts of the world that are working on great projects and who could benefit from collaboration.  Consider bringing an outline of these projects on November 11.

At the moment we are -

a mutual support network that looks at areas of overlap amongst what we are already doing to advance scientific, spiritual, business, and psychological understanding.

I hope you can make it out for part of the day on November 11.  Let me know if this works for you by emailing ucitytoronto @ gmail.com.

There will be two further Intro Nights on Wednesday November 13, and Thursday Nov 28 to which you are free to invite friends with projects for a society that works  for everyone.

Natural Ways to Organize Society

To learn from "how nature organizes" doesn't mean looking at wolf packs in the wild, or how geese get together before migrating, etc. It means observing things while we think of them as "systems", or self-sustainable, constantly changing, yet complete wholes.

The simplest of all systems we can study are atoms and molecules. They are self-sustainable, functioning, moving, yet balanced organizations of electrons, protons and neutrons.

We can learn a lot from the seven stages of the Periodic Table of Elementary Properties.  A huge amount waits to be discovered in terms of similarities with other systems of higher degrees of complexity. Plants and animals are, of course, much more complex systems. But perhaps they differ from atoms and molecules mostly in terms of their degree of their complexity. 

However, if the patterns found in how atoms organize are relatively simple, these same fundamental patterns could occur again and again continually throughout the world of plants and animals. 

Perhaps we can become aware of overall patterns that lend themselves to how we can organize in more natural ways as an international society.

This way of thinking is the basis of the Healing Economy of Conscious Evolution.

A system always finds balance, or it falls apart.  Its close enough to perfect balance, or it does not exist.  Perhaps, at this and every other point in our evolution as a society, there is something perfect in terms of the inherent balance of what goes on inside each individual, and as a planet-wide society.  Our natural capacity to approach perfection of balance could continue to move society to higher levels of complexity.  

Nature will not change over to being less reliant on balance, no matter how much we may want it to be otherwise.  It is up to us to become more conscious of this evolutionary development from perfect balance towards more complex stages of perfect balance.