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Educate to save the humanist metamorphosis at the time of algorithmic civilization and AI
The metamorphosis undermined by the digital revolution and AI Who can deny that the fundamentals of the humanization process (hierarchy, proximities and borders) are upset by the ongoing humanist metamorphosis which Alain de Vulpian tells us is being done to the...
Reflections on the change of US leadership @Göran Carstedt
“THE CHAUFFEUR”, ”THE NEW DRIVER” ... An American friend of ours expressed some months before the US election, that she hoped for Joe Biden to become the next US president. “He is not a visionary leader and he might not be very charismatic, but he is the...
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE US ELECTION @Heidi Sparkes Guber
Reflections of an Ordinary Citizen... This has been a brutal four years for anyone who loves this country. We have watched our sense of propriety, decency and relationship with the rest of the world dashed daily to the point that, up to the election, it was...
WAKING THE SPIRIT @Alain de Vulpian
Homo Sapiens communicates with nature and the cosmos, that’s Gaïa. When I wrote "The Spirit of metamorphosis" in «Éloge», I knew that I had not followed my intuitions right to the end, but I hadn't dared go that far. Subsequently I let myself be blocked by...
Socioperception and the emergence of an economy of meaning
The key role of socioperceptive people in transforming organisations and society
Alain de Vulpian and Tonnie van der Zouwen
Key words: Socioperception, empathy, anticipation, social fabric, economy of meaning, self-organisation, emotions, self-awareness, stakeholders
Why some companies will survive this crisis and others will die ?
It is not a given that all the oldest or largest companies will outlive this crisis — adaptability is key
By Andrew Hill
FINANCIAL TIMES
MAY 11 2020
THE METAMORPHOSIS CONTINUES FROM INSIDE
Health through the ecosystem It has now been integrated for several decades that health depends not only on its way of life but also on its environment. This systemic understanding underpins society's fundamental movements towards a greener and more human-friendly...
Metamorphosis calls for new regulations
The proliferation of alternative modes of travel and the sharing of public space From Los Angeles to Paris, or Berlin, via London or New York everywhere the massive and combined arrival of new modes of travel disrupts the fragile balances that had finally settled. In...
Society reinvents itself in all directions
Society is transformed by individuals and it is also metamorphosing by changes in the way it operates. When artists contribute to collective awareness Artists' commitment to social and environmental issues has become commonplace. A landmark initiative is the...
MONTREAL'S DECLARATION IN FAVOUR OF RESPONSIBLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This is the first fruit of a very interesting approach with citizen deliberations and co-construction with various stakeholders: the Montreal Declaration for responsible AI development. The key points of the outcome of the citizens' consultations revolve around...
EUROPEANS AS-A-BRAIN
While European political and media news informs us every day about the risks of a break-up of the European project, another approach to Europe is emerging and strengthening on which too few observers are looking. This is a non-administrative Europe, a Europe of...
An urgent need for "catalysts leaders for public action"
In 2015, Alain de Vulpian wrote in Praise of Metamorphosis: "The representative and partisan democracy we practice is at odds with the new society, which feels excluded from power and begins to challenge its legitimacy. The authoritarian and bureaucratic...
AND’s big comeback in politics? Hervé Chaygneaud-Dupuy
Politics in the age of AND Left and right, politics and civil society, presidentialism and parliamentaryism, liberalism and ecology... AND's big comeback in politics? May 24, 2017
Public governance, start-up spirit and metamorphosis – Irene Dupoux-Couturier
Tribune Libre – April 10, 2017
Combining these three words seems a challenge. And yet this is the bet that SoL France, the Society for the Learning Organization and the think-tank Synopia took in front of a hundred officials and company executives.
Metamorphosis of Public Governance – Alain de Vulpian
Towards a metamorphosis of public governance
Space research in full metamorphosis – Anne Beaufumé
Jacques Blamont, astrophysicist, member of the Academy of Sciences, who has always been an actor in space innovation, proposes to set up what he calls a "Wikinomic Space Federation"
Society tends to organize itself like a brain – Usbek and Rica
17/01/2017 – Interview with Alain de Vulpian, Vincent Lucchese, Journalist Usbek and Rica. The magazine that explores the future. All the futures: those who scare us and those we dream of.
The U.S. Election and the Dynamic Spiral – Marie-Eve Marchand
U.S. elections seen through the prism of the dynamic spiral