Future Here Now: Human Ecosystems

Try it on

As part of our continuing review of the First Principles — the core observations and understandings that I have developed to articulate the underlying changes I am seeing in this transition from the Industrial Era to the unfolding Fusion Era — we’re going to examine what it means to think of ourselves as members of human ecosystems, not cowboys or tribes. An ecosystem implies an interdependency, you might even say an entanglement, that can make many of us uncomfortable, especially if we came up in an American /western European cultural context.

We’ll approach this question five ways over the next few days: Try It On, the Big Idea, Pushback, Signals and What Do I Do With This. As always, full (paid) subscribers will get all the approaches, and free subscribers will get one or two approaches in full and previews of others. And if you like what you’re reading, you can get the whole series for free at the link below. You can also get the book that digs more deeply into these implications, as well as other Future-Ready publications, at wisefoolpressbooks.com.

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Human communities are human ecosystems.

Try It On

Pick 10 people in your life — ideally, people that you know from a few different contexts. Write their names on pieces of paper (Post-It type notes will work best) and lay them out on a table.

Get a handful of pens or strings or chopsticks. Using those, show the existing connections between the people you names. This might be family members, friend groups, co workers, etc. Some of your names might have a lot of connections, others might have none or very few.