assignment summary - week 5

A future – should we take a step back? – is it a step back?

Our groups vision was to reinvent ‘trends’ which have similar values derived from past contexts, as our current status as an evolving organism is leading into a world of uncertainties. 

b.o.b (billions of people), which is also a critical trend which we face in todays times and future predictions – in which the expediential rate of population is increasing, was a key element which drove our concept.  We now live in a world where the nature of change has changed.

“ a problem cannot be solved with the same level of thinking as created it”

                                                                                          - Einstein.

This problem seems to be left in the hands of the same organizations/bodies who created it – governments, professional, monetary system and architects (to name a few) – because most of what we now see as exceptionally stupid design concepts - such as the glass box - were initiated by architects and once hailed as exemplifying modernists ideas.  Therefore, do we leave it up to the same bodies to lead us on a journey in ratifying our current status or do we as a body of individuals create our own opportunities, create a momentum, an energy to plant within our current times , to direct our own destiny and inturn create a direction which disperses across the globe.

Our mindset is to evolve and become bigger and better (in simple terms) seems to be a continuous way of thinking in today’s evolution path.  Therefore if we continue this level of thinking we can predict we are only headed towards a consumed and depleted world.  So is taking a step back and basing our ethos on past doctrines, is it going backwards or rediscovering what it is to be human.  What do we need to survive? 

We can not wipe the plate clean and start again – that would incur a lot a landfill for a start.  No, we harness what is present, but redefine what is necessary – or at least start to.  Technology has allowed the nature of change to change.  We need to harness this evolution, but not exploit it. 

b.o.b and his community does this by implementing a think farm.  An organism integrated between the physical and non-physical realms to re-establish and re-invent systems, technologies, thoughts, and new technologies –really anything that is relevant and possible for the users of the think farm to solve.  What is the think farm?  It doesn’t need to be defined, it only needs to create a platform in which this process can occur.  It doesn’t need to be defined, as it would continuously need to be evolving to adapt to a future environments. 

THINK FARM – a collaborative, integrated platform form to harness the energy of you and me.