Restoring Hope in the Future

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Preamble

​Humanity is approaching a profound turning point.

Many of the social, economic and political institutions inherited from the industrial age are struggling to adapt to the Information Age.

Automation, artificial intelligence and accelerating technological change are transforming how we work, communicate and organise society.

At the same time, economic insecurity, political polarisation, social fragmentation and growing distrust are undermining confidence in the future.

Yet the same technologies disrupting established institutions also provide unprecedented opportunities for people to cooperate across national, cultural, political and ideological boundaries.

For the first time in history, we have the technological capacity to bring millions of people together around a shared vision, gather and analyse their feedback, and develop solutions through an ongoing process of collective learning.

This creates the opportunity for a new form of Polanyi's double movement — one driven not primarily by the state, but by individuals and organisations using modern technology to restore human values to the core of civil society.

The challenge is whether we can develop the vision, values and institutions necessary to use these capabilities for the common good.

Question:

humanity now has the technology, shared values and collective will to bring about the necessary social, political and economic transformation peacefully — without resorting to violence, revolution or descending into nihilism?

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