End Oil-Age, Start Creative Age
COMMENT, Global — We’ve have been in a post-modernist age for some time now.
But someone forgot to tell those 1950s-loving industrialist neo-cons.
The innovation zeitgeist is with the Creative Age.
Let’s look at where that innovation is for a moment.
So I don’t yet get it: what is innovation again?
It is not coolhunting — looking for the next plastic disposable item.
Innovation is ideas leading to positive change.
Positive change in business. And in society.
Right now our big-wigs in the White house and in Detroit are stuck in a big funk.
It’s a funk-up really. Iraq’s not going well.
We don’t need some modernist, oil and chemical-fueled economy for the next 50 years. We are smarter than that.
But we also don’t need to go around running around with starting fires and living in caves. We can solve this problem.
Here’s a starting point: Ideas don’t pollute.
And unlike the Neo-Cons I actually believe mankind is fundamentally creative.
We all hate what the Bush White-House has done
The withered stump of a shrivelled vision held up by the Neo-Conservatives is that mankind is too stupid to be trusted and brute force must be used to secure mankinds future by securing oil supplies.
That’s a vision not even fit for a postage stamp.
I don’t hate Bush himself, I hate the fact that he was foisted on us as a president.
Let me translate the Neo-Con vision:
“We’ll destroy the world, melt the ice-caps, but by-golly we’ll have a lot of plastic cr*p and a great-big car to drive around in. Pass the Pretzels…”
I’d rather be happy and have clean air and not make work the centre of my life.
And is playing office politics, selling more plastic cr*p or food-in-a-can really living?
European leadership - La Dolce Vita
In Europe, people know how to live.
And increasingly in managing the environment we must look to Europe, but also Silicon Valley, Boston, and all those places innovation lives and breathes.
Places where bright ideas get sowed as seeds that grow to trees.
And now we get to the point: the ultimate place.
The Internet. The Borderless Country.The Frontier!
Good things always happen on the Frontier.
Where even if you live in the smallest two-horse town, as long as you get an internet connection you can find like-minds.
Why is all this important? Why do we need innovation?
We as a people can solve problems.
We can be intelligent, and solve global warming, and other issues.
We can create positive social change.
In other words, we can innovate.
So this will be different to the Web 2.0 you’ve seen. We’re here (very soon).
Take care,
Christopher
Speaker. Author. Editor-In-Chief. Executive Director of Innovation, 2thinknow.
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