Holotopia

Holotopia

Think about the world at the twilight of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance: devastating religious wars, terrifying epidemics… Imagine Galilei in house arrest, whispering “eppur si muove” into his beard. Recall that the problems of the epoch were not resolved by focusing on those problems, but by a slow and steady development of an entirely new approach to knowledge. Several centuries of comprehensive and accelerated evolution followed. Could a similar advent be in store for us today?

Holoscope

We have recently completed and documented a prototype of a candidate new approach to knowledge, and called it knowledge federation. The mission of holotopia is to federate the knowledge federation itself.

In holotopia we represent knowledge federation by the pseudonym holoscope. We retain knowledge federation only as a keyword.

Let the holoscope be defined by the ideogram on the right and the one below. The holoscope enables us to point the light of information on any theme or issue, and by illuminating what has remained obscure or hidden, see it as a whole – its undistorted shape, and proportions.

A benchmark test

Perhaps 'the headlights' are not right?

The goal of holotopia is to find a way to change course – and thereby put the holoscope to a test.