No Straight Lines

Making sense of our
non-linear world @Canvas8

@alansmlxl

alan moore | www.smlxtralarge.com | no straight lines introduction 2012

The challenge:
Be realistic imagine the
impossible
paris 1968

Transition
Transition
[is weird]

the death and life of eco-systems

the emergence of a new system
trailblazers
collapse of system

hospicing
of old system



Overwhelmed by complexity

#nhs
#sovereign debt
#phonehacking
#pensions
#nokia #kodak
#identity

complexity

Organisation Social

Organisational, social,
economic change

complexity
complexity
Economic


An ambiguous world

System Upgrade


the Human- OS

What does
technology
want
?


OPPORTUNITY
FREEDOM
EMPOWERMENT
MUTUALISM
DIVERSITY
EFFICIENCY
INDEPENDENCE
BEAUTY


A connective
communications
membrane wrapping
itself around
the earth



Me, We. Jung re-wired
for the 21st Century

Ali’s shortest poem

“Me We”

Up Helly Aa
Identity + Community
the social fabric of life = knowable communities


Identity is deeply networked
& interwoven

2011

I + We = why?



Communication ?

Communion

[transendence]
Co-created culture



Participatory culture

POWER

When you get
institutional failure, people
learn to get what they need
from each other



A technological revolution…

…or, a social one?

In the classrooms of our schools,
In the waiting rooms of our hospitals,
On the floors of our factories, and, in our
villages, towns and cities we are no longer
content with the current status quo and we

How can we?
are asking not what if – but…


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’…

How do we design better for
societies, organisations, and
commerce – all at the same time?

Social Organisation
NEW

Economic


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The only way of discovering the limits of
the possible is to venture a little way past
them into the impossible

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principles

6
To a best possible future
challenges

[1]
Ambiguity
Learning
to deal with
an uncertain
world


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for FARMING

How do we remove the acute
volatility and therefore risk of
running large scale farms?


Systems thinking


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for BUSINESS

How do we discover a new
sustaining business model?


Wisdom to listen deeply, courage to explore

Markets: participatory, cultural, redistributive



[2]
Adaptiveness Creating,
Collaborating,
Critiquing,
Communicating

Language to describe our world


Open
The default setting is

[3]


[4]
Participatory cultures
& tools


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for FARMING

How do we as practioners and
users discover our best
possible future for our
healthcare system?


[5]
Craftmanship
The maker of civilisation
the development of new
insight, technique and
creativity


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for VENTURE FUNDING

How do we create the next
Silicon Valley not as a place but as
a platform? That would ignite
entrepreneurship and unleash
innovation at an international
scale?


The NEXT Silicon Valley
is not a place it’s a platform Surface signals 


[6] Epic:
seek epic wins


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for UK POVERTY

How do we get 10% of UK’s
population (6m+) who do not have
any access to credit or a bank
account access to a bank designed
for them? Meaning no more
loansharking, criminal rates of
interest, locking 6m into poverty.

The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for HEALTHCARE

How do we create a service to
better manage people’s chronic
health care? Reducing; wrong
diagnosis, over prescription of
drugs, clogging up hospitals and
specialist time.

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The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for organisations

How do we build new operational
capability, and commercial viability
by thinking about the organisation
as a platform, existing within an
eco-system?


The ‘WHAT’S NEXT’ for POVERTY

How do we enable 2bn + people
in poverty to increase their
earnings from $2 to $4 a day by
using mobile communications
technology?


Embracing ambiguity
NSL MODEL
FOR
TRANSFORATION
Designing for the ‘Human OS’

Learning to be adaptive

The almost
forgotten art
of
Craftsmanship

dynamic
resonant
system

Participatory cultures and tools Openness is resilience


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Lines as an Open Access
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