The need we respond to

“Our task is to bring the power of Generative Action Research
to those working on closing the gap between humanity’s potential
(for creating a prosperous and peaceful future for all) and our present conditions.”
— George Pór

 

Humanity is growing up. In this century of its turbulent adolescence, it’s learning how to meet its epic challenge — the multiple, intertwining crises. Planetary computing and AI became its digital doppelgänger. Now, it just has to learn how to use their services wisely for the betterment of the world.

How can we build competence in dealing with their potentially dire cross-impact, compounded by the meta-crisis of meaning? How can the generations living today become good, responsible ancestors to the next ones? There are no readily available answers to these existential questions.

Fortunately, in the midst of our manifold crises, something else is also happening. People come together in countless circles to build on each other’s experience and wisdom and start projects for re-imagining systems of health, governance, work, education, technology development, culture, and so on.

The common denominator of those social movements for profound transformation lies in seeking to deal with the chaotic complexity of civilizational transition. Working with that complexity requires new capabilities that we can grow only from the symbiotic relationship of AI and wisdom-guided collective intelligence at all scales.

 

Piercing the fog

The world soup is boiling, and there’s nobody in the kitchen to turn down the heat.

It is a metaphor not only for the global warming of the planet but also for the societal soup of competing narratives, fake news, and disinformation campaigns mingling together with honest guesses of what on Earth is happening in these turbulent times.

Humanity is building bridges into the fog—a fog of not-knowing the shape and consequences of our Emerging Planetary Reality. Torchlights of our collective intelligence can pierce the fog.

To serve as such torchlights, all of our research initiatives and the Future HOW center as a whole intend to become catalysts for the emergent collective intelligence of concerned researchers, practitioners, citizen scientists, and others in our wider network who wish to participate in building the bridges as we walk on them.