Prolog

We live on the brink of an Enlightenment-like change. The mission of Holotopia is to manifest this vision; and to choreograph its fulfillment.

Owning the way in which we see the world

We say "no thanks" to yet another report about Donald Trump's latest mischief. The first step toward holotopia is to take the way in which we look at the world into or own hands. That's what the choice of scope is about.

The scope of Holotopia

The scope of Holotopia is the nature of our contemporary condition as a whole. We want to grasp what's going on in our time – in a way that empowers us to set our priorities, and to act – in accordance with our situation.

There is an elephant in the room

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

The elephant becomes visible when we connect the dots.

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

Beyond the utopia

As a vision of a societal new order of things, the holotopia differs from the common utopias by being far more congenial, and at the same time 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 so extremely good news is a paradox:

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

It is time to build anew

An effect of the holotopia insight is to thoroughly redirect our efforts. And to make our efforts effective. It is rebuilding, and not fixing, that we must focus on. Instead of struggling to "solve our problems" within the existing order of things, or "by thinking as we did when we created them", we are invited to change that very order. And our very thinking.

Let us be daringly creative

Perhaps even more importantly, this changes by 180^o the tone of our engagement with the future. And also with our present: from avoiding risks, to fulfilling opportunities. It is the Renaissance time we are living in! And although most of us may not live experience its final results – it is now, it is before the fulfillment, that the creative opportunities are the largest.

We federate a giant

To make the federation of each of our insights concrete and engaging, we conceive it as a federation of a vision of a leading 20^th century thinker.

To emphasize that the holotopia is evidence-based, that we are only federating knowledge, we show how each of our main insights, including the overall insight that holotopia stands for, results by federating an insight of a leading 20th century thinker or giant. From the dazzling array of spectacular events, composing our broken worldview, an assortment of a handful of core insights emerges, arranged together harmoniously into a big-picture view.

Holotopia's icon is Aurelio Peccei

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 the following more detailed instruction, how the course is to be changed:

Let me recapitulate what seems to me the crucial question at this point of the human venture. Man has acquired such decisive power that his future depends essentially on how he will use it. However, the business of human life has become so complicated that he is culturally unprepared even to understand his new position clearly. As a consequence, his current predicament is not only worsening but, with the accelerated tempo of events, may become decidedly catastrophic in a not too distant future. The downward trend of human fortunes can be countered and reversed only by the advent of a new humanism essentially based on and aiming at man’s cultural development, that is, a substantial improvement in human quality throughout the world.

We are still only warming up. 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 principle

We show how the entire hologopia vision follows from a single, obvious principle or axiom: That knowledge must be federated. That we cannot just ignore what we don't understand. That what we think and do must reflect the knowledge we own.

We can say now, simply, that holoscope leads to holotopia. That when we begin to see things as wholes – we become ready to also make them whole!.

A single value

We show that aall of hologopia follows also from applying a single value – the value of wholeness. And it's an 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. ...

Holotopia and knowledge federation

In the spirit of knowledge federation, we offer holotopia as "the point of it all" – or technically as the circle in the information holon in which the knowledge federation prototype is the square.

We show that holotopia follows as soon as we begin to federate knowledge. And we show that knowledge federation is the core action that follows from the holotopia insight – and each of the specific five insights that lead to this large and basic one.