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 knowledge federation.

In holotopia we represent knowledge federation by the pseudonym holoscope, and retain knowledge federation only as a verb.

We define the holoscope by the ideogram on the right, with the help of the one below. The holoscope can be pointed at any theme or issue. By illuminating what has remained obscure or hidden, it lets us it as a whole – its undistorted shape, and correct 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.

A vision

When the new 'headlights' are used, what results is a cleear vision of the holotopia – and of 'course' that takes us there

The holotopia is a more desirable vision of the future than the common utopias tend to be. Yet it is practically realizable. The reason is that we already own the knowledge needed for its fulfillment.