The Emerging Creative Molecular Economy

1. The Emerging Creative Molecular Economy Preparing for a World That Doesn’t Exist

2. Every Few Hundred Years There Is “Every few hundred yearsin Western History there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society rearranges itself…its worldview; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later,there is a new world. And the people born then cannot even imagine the world in which their grandparents lived. We are currently living through just such a transformation. It is creating the post-capitalist society.” —Peter Drucker

3. “We are at the start of a profound crisis that is going to demand a radical change.” The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Cooper Ramo “Connectivity in the environment has accelerated change and increased the volatility in the business environment. Business must respond with more rapid and varied adaptation, and will experience fewer periods of stability in which efficiency is the dominant source of economic health.” It’s Alive Christopher Myer & Stan Davis “We are at the start of a profound crisis that is going to demand a radical change.” The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Cooper Ramo “Connectivity in the environment has accelerated change and increased the volatility in the business environment. Business must respond with more rapid and varied adaptation, and will experience fewer periods of stability in which efficiency is the dominant source of economic health.” It’s Alive Christopher Myer & Stan Davis

4. Connected and Adaptive Society • Based on Biological Principles • Constantly Changing • Distributive • Interlocking Dynamic Networks

5. Creative Molecular Economy “An economy based on the integration of emerging radical technologies, with creative individuals, small groups and companies organized in interlocking networks, connecting and disconnecting constantly in processes of continuous innovation.”

6. Creative Molecular Economy • An ability to identify “weak signals” about what the future holds. • A broad-band infrastructure capable of uploading and downloading massive amounts of data and video-streaming. • A Future Forward Workforce • Crowd-sourced innovation. • New ways to access capital for start-ups. • Direct Digital Manufacturing • The formation of interlocking networks to build momentum for new ideas, whether economic, educational or governance. • Distributive Energy

7. Comprehensive CommunityTransformation • Master Capacity Builders • 21st Century Community Conversations • Transformational Learning • Parallel Processes of Futures Projects & Entrepreneurial Networks • Mobile Collaborative Governance

8. We‘ve been borrowing from the future, and the debt has fallen due. We have reached or passed the limits of our current economic model of consumer-driven material economic growth. We are heading for a social and economic hurricane that will cause great damage, sweep away much of our current economy and our assumptions about the future, and cause a great crisis that will impact the whole world and to which there will be a dramatic response. —Paul Gilding The Great Disruption

9. “We have to do bolder things. If we don’t fail a third of the time, we are not stretching enough. IBM needs to leverage its resources and learn from others. Great ideas are springing up everywhere. You can’t be the leader all yourself anymore. Things are just too complex.” John KellyV.P. Research, IBM