Inviting the next people's revolution peacefully

Some would say that global invitation, as a meta-process of open space, is the greatest challenge of all. Timing of the invitation is critical if all the right people are to come and the tipping point (of Harrison's 3 C's Change, Conflict and Confusion) is nigh so that its safe to celebrate innovation to everyone's hearts' contents. In turn this means that there is a need for future historians and open space facilitators to connect their views. This post is made in that spirit

Future Shock news (Feb06) from Club of Bethesda: A funny thing happened 31 Jan 2006. There was George Bush, doing his annual state of the Union speech, preaching conversion: we will make ethanol competively prices as gasoline within 5 years; America needs to wean itself off addiction to the petroleum economy

where did this come from ; apparently 20 leaders were urgently requested last fall to do a report : which they called Rising above the Gathering Storm

Its conclusions launch 2 space races: adopt clean energy and get used to the internet beginning with making learning science as sexy among the young as sports. Two of its co-authors were interviewed 1 Feb 2006 on Public Sector tv.

and they mentioned 5 times in as many minutes that "Death of Distance": the nickname of my father's and my 1984 book. Link this with one more serendipity: the week in DC had started with a visit from silicon valley brainjams - a roadshow and open space movement collaborative participation in waving news around what web2.1 can do.