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The Future Knowledge Compendium by Peter Ellyard 2023
THRIVING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Humans have a unique capability to both understand their situation in the world and to envision and act to realise their aspirations in the emerging world. And most of us would welcome knowing how we can become ever more skilful at both understanding, and shaping the future of, our emerging world, so that we can thrive in it. The 21st century is very different from the 20th century. Globalisation, the greatest economic prosperity uplifting machine humanity has ever invented, and mass education, are combining to sweep humanity into an emerging interdependent global village. It is creating a global educated middle class that will number 5 billion in 2030.
In this emerging world, a world where our future prosperity will be increasingly based on metaphysical wealth, on what we know, 20th century nation-first, competitive, win/lose, mindsets and agendas can no longer work. These now yesteryear mindsets will instead undermine our best endeavours, including making our future ever more climate and pandemic safe.
Humanity is now beginning to learn that it now has no option but to adopt planet-first, collaborative, win/win values and mindsets, if it wishes to shape our emerging global village so that it can become liveable for all: ever more prosperous, harmonious, inclusive, sustainable, healthy, and secure. Meeting these challenges successfully will require that humanity innovates for itself a new future knowledge curriculum so that it can economically thrive in a sustainable and humane manner.
Peter Ellyard has asked the question: what would be the contents of such a curriculum? In The Future Knowledge Compendium: A Curriculum for Thriving in the 21st Century, he has sought to answer this question.
- 12 concepts, tools and mindsets in the Future Knowledge Curriculum ***
1. Maximise your imagination. Imagination is to the future as memory is to the past. We cannot build a future that we do not first imagine. Einstein tells us that imagination is more important than knowledge.
2. Be both prophet and visionary. The question the Prophet in each of us asks is "what will be the future?" The question the Visionary in each of us asks is "what should/could be the future?" The futurist in each of us should ask and answer, both these complementary questions.
3. Be a manager and leader of self and other. Management perfection is the resilient future taker. Leadership perfection is the purposeful future maker. The first task of good management and leadership is to become an effective manager and leader of self.
4. Embody planetist values. Planetism is a new 21st century paradigm. It involves giving first allegiance to Planet, just as tribalism involves giving first allegiance to tribe, one's tribal, cultural, or religious identity, and nationalism involves giving first allegiance to nation. The paradigm of planetism embodies nine core values. If we want to be the most 21st century relevant and successful person we can be, we should put planet first.
5. Build positive futures rather than eliminate negative futures. As we shape futures, we should aspire to build positive futures and not Just ameliorate negative futures. Ending war does not create peace. Ending poverty does not create prosperity. Ending illness does not create wellness. Ending cruelty does not create kindness.
6.Embed sustainable behaviours In yourself. Sustainable behaviour causes zero net collateral harm to life and zero net collateral damage to place. In the 21st century humanity will innovate the means to achieve this.
7. Understand and grow interdependence. The Interdependent relationship is the most critlcal relationship in emerging 21st century society. This requires that we practice the golden rule, make mutual obligations to shared destinations, and seek wln/wln outcomes. Future calls thls the Inerdependence Trio.
8. Value questions and treasure reflection. Most futurist activities commence with a question. And to answer these questions well we should give ourselves reflective time. Ask yourselves what were you doing when you had your best Ideas about your work? It Is unlikely that you were working.
9. Be a utopian realist. Sociologist Anthony Giddens coined the concept of Utopian Realism: imagining utopian ends and crafting realistic means to achieve these ends. High achieving futurists will be Utopian Realists.
10. Expand your circle of Identity. Ethicist Peter Singer enourages us to fully explore what and wmm we about and what and who we do not care about, and why. He created the concept of the CIrcle of Concern (FutK34) and suggsted we should ove time expand our Circle Concern to care for all of capable of suffering. Future Knowledge's Circle of Identity (FutK32) is concerned about the human part of life. It recommends that over time we expand our Circle of Identity (FutK35) to all who are different so that it eventually includes all of humanity.
11. Recognise the role of and embody the six future shaping tools. There are six tools for shaping the future: management, leadership, planning, design, innovation, and leaming. Successful futurists will be able to use these six future shaping tools.
12. Build a liveable future. A liveable place, precinct, community, natione and planet is prosperous, harmonious, inclusive, sustainable healthy, and secure. These are Future Knowledge's Six Pillars of Liveability. All of us want to live in communities that are as liveable as we can make them. The uplifting of liveability will become a key shaper and purpose of the 21 century global economy.
SOME LINKS
> ::https://www.oecd.org/education/2030/E2030%20Position%20Paper%20(05.04.2018).pdf:: (The future of education and skills Education 2030 published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD)
> ::https://www.jstor.org/stable/1501458:: (Knowledge, Learning and the Curriculum of the Future by Michael Young, Institute of Education, University of London)
> ::https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/tcz/Book%20Reviews/2017%20Book%20Reviews/February%202017/Knowledge%20and%20the%20Future%20School-%20Curriculum%20and%20Social%20Justice-1662586247.pdf:: (Knowledge and the Future School: Curriculum and Social Justice reviewed by Wanda Watson - February 08, 2017)
> ::https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Future-School-Curriculum-justice/dp/147252814X:: (Knowledge and the Future School: Curriculum and social justice by Michael Young , David Lambert, Carolyn Roberts, Martin Roberts 2014)
> ::https://archive.org/details/destination20500000elly:: (borrow: Destination 2050 by Peter VerfasserIn Ellyard 2012)
> ::https://designing2050.wordpress.com/about/:: (Peter's 2012 book)
> ::https://www.religion-online.org/tag/earthism/::
> ::https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/peter-ellyard::
> ::https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/33533::
> ::https://livingearthmovement.eco/:: (The Living Earth Movement inspires global cooperation for the sake of all life on our planet, beginning with the United States and China. We also seek to promote a new human civilization that lives in harmony with the rest of the ecosphere.) [Compare "earthism" with "planetism" with Charles Betterton, MS Community Economic Development. 760-212-9931; charlesbetterton@gmail.com}
> ::https://archive.org/details/inlibrary?query=Kenneth+Boulding:: (borrow Kenneth Boulding books)
> ::https://archive.org/details/inlibrary?query=Bucky+Fuller:: (Borrow Buckminster Fuller books)
> ::https://archive.org/details/wholeness00alex:: (Borrow Wholeness : on education, Buckminister Fuller, and Tao by Gerber, Alex 2001)
