Issue 6
In This Issue
Brief history of academies is presented, and the current role of academies is outlined. Contemporary world is global, interdependent and rapidly changing. These features are occurring for the first time in human history. All of these features are science and technology generated. Present time can be best described by Charles Dickens’ opening sentence of his novel ...
Lead Articles
Brief history of academies is presented, and the current role of academies is outlined. Contemporary world is global, interdependent and rapidly changing. These features are occurring for the first time in human history. All of these features are science and technology generated. ...
Institutional and Cultural Inertia
Today we are faced with multiple interrelated crises, for example the threat of catastrophic climate change or equally catastrophic thermonuclear war, and the threat of widespread famine ...
Priming Political Leaders for Fateful Choices
This paper presents nine propositions: (1) humanity is cascading through a rupture in its history into an epoch of “anthropo-transmutation”; ...
Value Creation: the role of values in improving organizational performance
It can be argued that the various institutions of society (law, education, media, etc.) all attempt to maximize the experience of values considered important ...
Out of the depths of the problems that challenged humanity in the past have surfaced great opportunities. Famine, war, depression and subjugation have all left one ...
Book Review — What Could Change Everything?
Naomi Klein is a deep thinker who generates profound insights and unsettling contributions to the state of well-being on a planetary basis ...
2015 marks the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. This document resulted from the great concern of both scientists and ...
Thanks to citizen power the dictum“Si vis pacem, para bellum” can now be replaced by the motto that will mark a new era: “Si vis pacem, para verbum”. Multiple factors will gradually produce a “change of attitude” ...
This article is based on a keynote address that the author gave in Montgomery, Alabama, last year, celebrating the anniversary of the famous Civil rights ...
Donato Kiniger-Passigli & Anna Biondi
A people-centred, preventive approach to disaster risk
As natural disasters increase and intensify around the world, their consequences are felt most acutely in those countries less equipped to cope with them ...
Social Capital and the New Paradigm Thinking
This article is based on a presentation the author gave in Kazakhstan late last year. The article seeks to clarify the empirical foundations of human ...
Saint Catherine and the Free Market System; The (Historic) Roots of the Current Crisis
The current crisis is rooted in the past, and is related to the ability of empires to ground their ...
Urgent: A New Era, New Solutions
We have to invent our future. Never before have so many things changed so quickly. In the digital era, human beings are no longer invisible, silent and obedient ...
The Relevance of Infodynamics: From the Biosphere to the Psychosphere
Living matter is considered an emerging property of inert matter, and thinking matter (the mind) is considered as an emerging property of inert matter ...
Integrating Ideas and Organizations Toward a New Paradigm
Global strategies and agendas commonly emphasize a need to "integrate" ideas and organizations ...
Institutional Dealing with Scientific Misconduct
Living matter is considered an emerging property of inert matter, and thinking matter (the mind) is considered as an emerging property of inert matter ...