on Social Design.

In his new book Quantum Shift in the Global Brain (1), systems theorist and twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Ervin Laszlo, suggests a practicable behavioural code derived from an ecological and planetary ethics. He ascribes this code a ceiling and a floor, or a maximum and a minimum code, i.e., what one should be doing ideally, and the least one can do. The maximum code can be formulated as: Act so as to further the evolution of a humanly favourable dynamic ... Read More

It’s six o’clock in the afternoon. Inside the bus there are around 80 people, many of them standing. Apart from the city raining outside, the only unusual thing to be found inside the bus is a poster, sitting too small inside the frame. Carris *1 puts up these occasional posters to inform us, among other things, about the February 11th referendum *2. We all know about the referendum, we all watched the impassioned debates and the book launches on TV, we all ... Read More