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Daily Inspiration: "Keep an eye on the edges" - Futurist Jim Carroll

(Note: I know Mastodon/Federation is heavily tech-oriented, so nothing new for you here. This series hits many other audiences....)

Increasingly, the future is created out in the crowd, out on the edges, and it's in your interest to watch the crowd and live at the edge.
No doubt you are aware of the open source movement - the collective initiative responsible for Linux, the dominant computer operating system in the world. Developed in the open through close collaboration and cooperative goals and ideas, the system is the foundation of much of our technology-based world of today.

If you want to understand the future, you need to understand both the history and future of ideas and concepts like this. That's why should keep your eye on what's happening with concepts such as open science, open data, open innovation, open collaboration, and of course, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. While the popular belief is that many new products, ideas, solutions, and concepts are developed by corporations in sophisticated research labs, equally more occurs in global collaborative communities that share common goals, beliefs, values - passion, and purpose. Those initiatives then actually become the foundation for what much eventually transpires in those research labs!

The whole idea is that 'open' development will help to eliminate errors, improve quality, remove hidden agendas, demolish the idea of 'control' of platforms and technologies, and much more. As many will like to point out - the future is open. Or at least, it should be open. - and should happen within global, collaborative communities that have nothing to hide.  Keeping an eye on - and even participating - in these collaborative communities and open initiatives will help you to understand so much more about how the future will evolve, and that's why this is strategy #14 in my 24 Strategies for 2024 series.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/12/daily-inspiration-24-strategies-for-2024-14-keep-an-eye-on-the-edges/