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Storytelling
Throughout time, one the greatest ways in which people have learned
about history and our future is through telling stories about what has
happened or what could happen. We have wonderful books about the past and we have science fiction and books that forecast the future.
Perhaps the best way we can help society adapt to change is
through telling stories of how to adapt to change. This could make it easier
for people to understand that change itself could be one of the loop
points.
It is so obvious that it is just change itself that keeps people
from moving in and out of understanding where we can go. People do
not accept change unless they have a good friend who has been there
that can explain it, or unless they identify with a book they are reading
to take them from here to there, or unless they have seen a movie and
they put themselves in the role of the actor or the director. Another way is to be sitting in a room with a personal
storyteller so effective that you empathize so deeply that your sympathies
can understand why change needs to take place.
Nanotechnology Change Design
In an emergency situation, such as a life and death situation, you accept
certain technology or resolve to the problem because you have no choice.
It is unfortunate that we have to get to that point, but it is true
that we do. With nanotechnology change design, progress is in cycles
that hinge on discontinuities and emergent dominant design. When shocking
events happen, suddenly there is a cycle that starts occurring. That
can be a balancing cycle or a reoccurring balancing cycle, where it
will just keep on reinforcing itself, forming a major reinforcing
cycle with change. We are seeing that in the very beginning stages now
with design.
The
network of the global design is an interesting image because it is almost
as though you can close your eyes and see the blogocracies and the networks.
It is not so much that it is visible, but rather that it is an emotional
sense of being. Imagine if the world were 100% automated and everything
was happening simultaneously. You could plan a theatrical event and
it would build and assemble itself very quickly in multiple locations.
That type of network would be one application for the social narrative,
as well as a Blogocracy, because people are
thinking of working together on that level. Figure 4 shows that global design means how the entire world works together.
Figure 4
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