Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Future Scenarios & Spiral Dynamics

Doing some research for a talk at UMass Amherst tomorrow, and reading David Holmgren's excellent Future Scenarios essay at www.futurescenarios.org.

Here is a summary of the four potential scenarios along 2 variable axes: (All images by David Holmgren):



And here is a summary of the characteristics of each scenario:



What I'd like to quickly propose is a Spiral Dynamics vMEME mapping based mostly on the 'culture' column of this last chart:

Brown Tech: BLUE-orange
Green Tech: GREEN-orange
Earth Steward: GREEN-yellow (not sure about this one -- maybe YELLOW-turquoise?)
Lifeboats: RED-purple

Whad'ya think?

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