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We are in a situation comparable to that of physicists in the last century: in order to move forward, they had to decide to listen to the inventors of quantum physics, which turned their way of thinking upside down and opened up new horizons.

Physicists had to make a great effort to get out of their certainties. But the rewards have been immense if you look at all the progress that has followed this acceptance.

Economists, sociologists and all the specialists called upon to think about the “next world” must now agree to thoroughly overhaul their ways of thinking and the theories on which we have based our respective sciences.

At least those who can, because the exercise requires a specific intellectual capacity: there are discoverers, testers and developers. They are all useful, but the ones who will play an important role will be the disclosers, those who understand and put the concepts into simple words with convincing examples. This last step alone will take time! About two generations (60 years).

But do we have that time? The damage to the planet is more worrying every day, and the fragility of our social and economic system is not reassuring. Hence, there will never be enough of us to cross our points of view and approaches to solutions.

In Europe, we have got where we are because of our Cartesian mindset, which has taught us to segment problems and deal with them piece by piece. To move forward, we need to take the opposite approach: to consider that not only is our environment a whole but also that it is in constant motion. Every parameter that moves has an impact on the whole. This is the systemic or, more precisely, cybernetic effect. This leads us to adopt new methodological approaches.

This book proposes a particular approach to interpreting the coming world. It is based on two principles, typical of cybernetic futurology:

 – the dynamics of facts: the evolution of life on earth is a continuous process and more coherent than it seems. The orientation of this evolution goes from matter to spirituality. It advances in a trial and error mode. Humans are not above the rest of the living world, but included in the whole of living matter, which itself is backed by the mineral and dynamics of the cosmos. The dynamics that drive the whole thing forward are strewn with events that we tend to call unforeseen. But resituated in the long term, there is nothing unforeseeable about them for those who reason in the “meaning of life” mode;

 – the mechanism of homeostasis: when the environment changes significantly, and although it seems dangerous to adapt, it nevertheless becomes preferable to try to evolve. In such circumstances, living beings deviate from their path to continue evolving.

Currently, the question is not so much the survival of our species³ as the opportunity to move towards a better world for us within Gaia.

We will take a look at the social, economic and environmental components that are currently undergoing the most torsion, focusing on the dynamics of these torsions and their interrelationships.

The aim is to open up the field of possibilities for a new socio-economic approach, developed independently of the dogmas of the great economic thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries.