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(Margaret Mead, Continuities in Cultural Evolution, 1964)

I am proposing a way to correct an error.

Which remained buried in our culture's foundation; and forgotten in distant history. Problems—including discontinuities in cultural evolution, and non-sustainability of global trends—need to be seen as its consequences. I am about to share with you a strategy, whose execution is already in motion; and invite you to take part in bringing it to fruition.

I am proposing to institute a transdiscipline.

Which is a new kind of institution; and offering knowledge federation as its complete prototype—ready to be examined and put to use.

The knowledge federation proposal does include a vision of a better future and a way to implement it; which is called holotopia, and offered as its proof of concept application.

This website is meant to complement my book called Liberation, which will soon be in print; where I'll share the details and the evidence, by by telling very brief entertaining stories called vignettes. Here I want to point to knowledge federation's academic essence; not by spelling out its details, but by outlining its structure—and letting you reconstruct the details, by browsing through the book; and by participating in the public dialog the Libetion book will ignite.

In the book I sometimes call myself "a scientific fundamentalist", with tongue in cheek. The fact of this matter is that I've been trained as a theoretical scientist, or practically, as a mathematician. I am saing this because (in contrast with my informal and sketchy manner of speaking) it is only when you see that there is nothing hypothetical in what I'm saying, that it's all as rigorous as mathematical axioms and theorems—that you'll have understood me correctly. It all follows from this simple axiom:

Knowledge must be federated.

Which is not an axiom in the usual sense—but conceived as a convention of language; and as part of my definition of knowledge, and of knowledge federation. What it means is that we can only say that something is known, and call it knowledge, if it's supported by evidence; if it resulted from a concerted effort to find and account for all relevant evidence; and also, and importantly—if it's reflected in everyday awareness and action.

Knowledge federation is the result of work of many excellent people.

I speak to you in first person to allow myself to be controversial; and to be personally accountable for what I'm about to say; and importantly, because I want this to be an outcry.

Historical appeals to institute transdisciplinarity have remained futile!

And when we took over the torch—or as the case might be this large boulder, and started rolling it uphill—the same dynamic repeated itself. The challenge we are facing is to break the spell of the business as usual; and be resolute in it—because we have no time to waste.

On this website I'll let knowledge federation speak for itself; and illustrate some of its techniques.

• Federation through Ideograms will render the gist of this proposal as four metaphorical images
• Federation through Keywords will help you comprehend it precisely, by discussing a handful of words in terms of which it's been defined
• Federation through Prototypes will demonstrate how knowledge federation will make a difference, by sharing a few examples
• Federation through Action will invite you to take part in the two-step process that will complete this initiative.

Dino Karabeg