[p2p-research] present and future

[Michel Bauwens]

Ryan,

this should appeal to you, from david gurteen:



*On idealistic solutions<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/L004371/>
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Dave Snowden said something recently that typified my approach to everything
that I have done in life over the last 10 years or more.

Knowledge Management should be focused on real, tangible intractable
problems not aspirational goals. It should deal pragmatically with the
evolutionary possibilities of the present rather then seeking idealistic
solutions.

*Credit: *Dave Snowden

And then I saw these two posts A Deficit View of the
World<http://www.changingorganisations.com/2009/05/a-deficit-view-of-the-wor%0Ald/>and
Three
Questions for Opening Up
Possibility<http://www.changingorganisations.com/2009/05/three-questions-for-openi%0Ang-up-possibility/>from
Stephen Billing where he makes a similar point and draws from Patricia
Benner?s The Primacy of
Caring<http://www.amazon.com/Primacy-Caring-Stress-Coping-Illness/dp/02011200%0A2X>.


Stephen concludes his post thus

Benner suggests that decreasing your reliance on a preconceived end or means
of getting there can offer a new point of departure for new possibilities
that were not previously available. To me, this applies as much to
individuals in their personal lives as much as it does to people in
organisations.

*Credit: *Three Questions for Opening Up
Possibility<http://www.changingorganisations.com/2009/05/three-questions-for-openi%0Ang-up-possibility>,
Stephen Billing

And then yet again I got to build on Snowden's original statement with this
quote from John Deway <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey> that I found
in the comments to the above post. The ideal of using the present simply to
get ready for the future contradicts itself. It omits, and even shuts out,
the very conditions by which a person can be prepared for his future. We
always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by
extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience
are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. This is the only
preparation which in the long run amounts to anything.

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