Holotopia

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That one thing we need to know

The Holotopia prototype is knowledge federation's proof of concept application. So imagine that you had in your hand a flashlight, which you could point at any question or issue, and see it in new light. See it as a whole. Your task is to show what your flashlight can do, show what difference it can make. What question would you ask? What issue would you choose to illuminate?

Or let us put this a bit differently. Knowledge federation is conceived as a way to knowledge that can give us the people the know-what we need. That can help us direct our efforts. Imagine that you had all the world's knowledge at your disposal. And that your task was to extract from it a single insight, a 'mountain top view' of a felicitous new direction. What insight would you choose to offer?

There is an elephant in the room

There is an elephant in the room – which we have, incredibly, failed to see!

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Holotopia becomes manifest as soon as we begin to connect the dots.

This exotic huge animal becomes visible as soon as we connect the dots.

Before we saw the elephant, we heard our visionary thinkers talk about "the fan", the "hose" and the "rope". But since that didn't make much sense, we ignored them. Now that we've caught a glimpse of this spectacularly large thing, specific insights begin to acquire a whole new meaning. Knowledge acquires power! It begins to make a difference.

Beyond the utopia

As a vision of a new societal order of things, the holotopia differs from the common utopias by being far more congenial, and readily realizable. It is more congenial, because the authors of common utopias lacked the data to see what was possible. It is readily realizable because we already own the knowledge needed for its fulfillment.

What makes the holotopia such astonishingly good news is a paradox:

Comprehensive change can be easy – even when smaller and obviously necessary changes may be impossible.

It's time to be daringly creative

A glimpse of the holotopia is enough to make us thoroughly redirect our efforts. To make them effective. It is rebuilding, not fixing, we must focus on. Instead of struggling to "solve our problems" within the existing order of things, "by thinking as we did when we created them", we see that we need to change that very order. That we must learn to think and act in a new way.

It is the opportunities we need to focus on

Holotopia reverses the very tone of our engagement with the future. And even with our present! An Enlightenment-like change is ready to begin! And although many of us may not live to experience the new order that will result – it is now, it is before the fulfillment, that the creative opportunities abound!

Undeniably our condition is laden with problems. But we can now see them as merely symptoms – pointing the changes that will radically improve our condition!

The story

We consider the giant that corresponds to an insight to be the icon for the insight. The icon for holotopia is Aurelio Peccei.

Based on a decade of The Club of Rome's research into the future prospects of mankind, Peccei was led to conclude

It is absolutely necessary to find a way to change course.

Peccei also left us this hint, how the course is to be changed:

The future will either be an inspired product of a great cultural revival, or there will be no future.

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Aurelio Peccei

The five insights

How Shall we change course?

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Knowledge federation is not completed by seeing things. Knowledge is not federated before it is embodied by people, and turned into action. Before it is reflected in the order of things, in the systems in which we live and work

In its developed form, the Holotopia will have five transformative spaces – implemented both online and offline, as virtual spaces and as transformative situations involving with concrete people and in real places – through which its mission will be fulfilled.

The fireplace

The fireplace is the dialog space. We engage everyone's collective intelligence. The fire is always burning. May just drop in. Or schedule regular meetings, to deepen the understanding of a theme, or to co-create a project.

The library

Our dialogs will be knowledge-based. The library will provide the access to underlying insights. Venues to explore them further.

The workshop

We co-create prototypes.


The gallery

We exhibit earlier developed prototypes.


The stage

We stage events. Transformative. Informative. Interventions.

A single axiom

All of hologopia follows from a single axiom: That Galilei should not be kept in house arrest. That knowledge should be listened to, and acted on. Or in a word – that knowledge must be federated.

We can say now, simply, that holoscope leads to holotopia. That when we begin to see things in a way that is whole – we become ready to also create a world that is whole!.

A single rule of thumb

We show that all of holotopia follows also from applying a single value – the value of wholeness. And it's the obvious value, anyhow!

A single insight

So a single insight emerges straight away, and serves as the guiding light for all the rest: We get to see our own time in a similar light as we may now see the zeitgeist in Galilei's time. At the twilight of the Middle Ages, and the dawn of the Enlightenment. ...

The Club of Zagreb

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