WFS - Europe

The Europe Chapter of the World Future Society. The chapter is currently organised by Stephen Aguilar-Millan of the European Futures Observatory.

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That's the end of the workshop - thanks to Yorkshire Futures and all the speakers... - #wfsesustain

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The 'Sharing' economy will also be the 'Experience' economy - #wfsesustain

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Conclusion 4 - the next economy will be the Sharing Economy (at a higher level on Maslow's hierarchy) - #wfsesustain

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Peer governance becomes based on membership & contribution - #wfsesustain

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So, within the Sixth Revolution is the Peer Society involving creation, production & governance roles - #wfsesustain

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social capital has to be restored - #wfsesustain

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Conclusion 3 - Institutional innovation in the Fifth Revolution: network society creates value only for connected people & - #wfsesustain

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Consider the networked society; look at the dynamics suggested by 3 key laws: Sarnoff, Metcalf & Reed - #wfsesustain

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Conclusion 2 - An abundance of basic goods in the sixth revolution; premised on a 'steady-state' economy - #wfsesustain

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In the future we'll see changes in the structure of our economic pricing (& value) with basic needs being cheaply met - #wfsesustain

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If we look at the development of robotics we see the same kind of development & pricing dynamics - #wfsesustain

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After 2025 clean-energy will be cheap - this will 'change the world' - #wfsesustain

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We're seeing the reduction in the price of renewable energy & the main driver is worldwide competition in creating clean-tech - #wfsesustain

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This revolution will be centred on power generation - #wfsesustain

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Conclusion 1 - the Law of Accelerating Returns is driving economic growth. The Sixth Technological Revolution is emergent - #wfsesustain

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... the increase in computing power versus ongoing reductions in price leading to technology deflation - #wfsesustain

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Proposition: We are about to enter the deployment phase of the Information & Telecommunications Age with 2 key trends ... - #wfsesustain

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Looking at the Five Technological Revolutions & their timescales- with their subsequent economic & social transformations - #wfsesustain

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Commenting on ideas of what is predictable & unpredictable, namely, the human factor tends to cause us most problems - #wfsesustain

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Subtitled - The Peer Society 2020 -2040 - #wfsesustain