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Current
Projects:
Past
Projects:
- Worked with the MGTaylor Corporation
and the Plexus Institute
on the Plexus Conference - Diffusing
Innovations: Learning with Everett Rogers & Each Other, June
21-22, 2002 in Kalamazoo, MI.
- Worked with other members of the MG Taylor Value Web and the World
Economic Forum on the Global Leaders for Tomorrow Summit in Geneva,
Switzerland, August 31-September 3, 2001.
- Worked with other members of our Value Web, with
the World Economic Forum, and with experts in four subject areas to
prepare a series of workshops for the Annual
Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January
25-30, 2001. Matt and Gail Taylor facilitated Ideaslab Workshops around
the themes of Climate Change, The Educational Divide, Moving Beyond
Codes of Conduct, and Social Entrepreneuring.
- iterations
worked with The Foresight Institute
on their Spring
2000 Senior Associates Gathering, May 19-21, 2000. iterations,
knOwhere and Athenaeum
International created an engaging environment in the ballroom
of a Palo Alto hotel, complete with thousands of square feet of WorkWall
surfaces. During the event, iterations focused on the DesignShop events.
These were intensive, lengthy, facilitated dialogues led by Matt
Taylor and supported and documented by MG
Taylor ValueWeb
knowledge workers. The dialogues focused largely on issues raised
by Eric Drexler's Engines
of Creation. Where are we in relation to these issues? What
has changed since the book first appeared in 1986? What has not changed?
These were not surface level summaries, but rather deep and penetrating
dialogues meant to get to the heart of these issues and significantly
advance the level of meaningful discussion. The DesignShop Patches
proceeded through the process of Scan-Focus-Act,
not only talking about the issues, but also devising a set of recommendations
for how Foresight (and society in general) can move forward to deal
with these very difficult issues. These recommendations will form
a key component of the Foresight Institute's Engines
of Creation 2000 project. As Drexler discusses, particularly in
Part Three of Engines of Creation, in order to survive the
coming revolutions in nanotechnology, society will require a variety
of new mechanism for dealing with rapid and profound change. Fact
forums and hypertext
are two mechanisms discussed at length. While fact forums have yet
to emerge in an important way, the Internet has advanced the hypertext
agenda significantly. The MG Taylor
Corporation has been working with organizations going through
rapid and profound change for more than 20 years. iterations
is expanding the realm where MG Taylor has traditionally worked, and
is now focused on developing 21st Century models for doing integrated
science, technology development and business creation. Researching
science and technology to help bring ideas to a forum and process
that promotes their rapid assimilation into tools that facilitate
the creation of a healthier society.
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The
four DesignShop event themes were organized as follows:
Iteration
1. A scan of the conditions and opportunities that exist for
the Foresight community, and for society in general.
Iteration
2. What are the alternatives? For example, do we encourage and
embrace technological advances or do we relinquish the development
of certain technologies? Openness versus privacy, etc..
Iteration
3. Testing of the alternatives. What are the implications of
the different alternatives? The unintended consequences?
Iteration
4. Develop strategies and policies for Foresight and society
that are built upon the memes that have been generated during the
first three iterations.
Documentation
of these 4 DesignShop events can be found here.
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