BOOTSTRAPPING SOCIAL-SYSTEMIC EVOLUTION

摘要

An anomaly that underlies sustainability-related and other contemporary issues is that remedial information is created but not heeded, and not turned into action. We point to a paradigm within which this anomaly can be remedied, and submit it as a natural and up-to-date continuation of the meta-scientific impulse that was the origin of the ISSS. A call to action that follows is to render results and insights not only as printed text, but also as systemic prototypes, and most importantly-as changes to real-world systems. We propose bootstrapping social-systemic evolution as a suitable method and strategy, and illustrate it by a collection of design prototypes and patterns, already in implementation. The Appendix is an anecdotal rendering of our call to action, which weaves together the life histories and visionary ideas of Erich Jantsch and Douglas Engelbart.