Everything is a Holon
Living Systems Community Platform
We are playing a different game.
In the 1960s, Buckminster Fuller proposed the “World Game” - a simulation to find solutions to global problems. Now, AI and modern technology can take this vision further.
AI can analyze complex systems and data to generate insights for addressing global challenges like climate change, inequality, and sustainability. Machine learning algorithms can rapidly model and simulate scenarios to predict the impacts of different policies and interventions. And AI can enable more engaging, adaptive games that harness collective intelligence across cultures.
Imagine Harlem is being developed with the Holon City framework. A "holon" is Greek for "whole/parts" meaning literally the whole that is simultaneously a part, and vice versa.
Everything, yes, every-thing is a system and part of a system, a whole and part of a greater whole. “Holon” is the word that has been coined for this. A holonic approach creates the foundation for a comprehensive approach to deliberate community innovation and co-evolution.
Cities can be managed as holonic systems - self-organizing units that are autonomous yet interdependent. This allows complex structures to be created while improving governance and resilience.
Local Impact Economy
Game mechanics like virtual currencies and goods can foster economic activity and transactions locally. AI and simulation can model the impacts of different policies and incentives. This enables innovative, equitable solutions tailored to community needs.
Fuller's concept of a "World Game" was a simulation-based strategy game designed to be played by a global community, with the goal of finding solutions to global problems such as poverty, malnutrition, and environmental degradation. The game was intended to be a tool for promoting global collaboration and problem-solving, and Fuller believed that it could be used to identify and implement effective solutions to global challenges.
Local Impact and Community Engagement
Games can change the world. Many of the world's social problems are large, complex, and interconnected.
Our first campaign focuses on Beauty and how AI art can be tuned to create beauty and enhance the sense of community.
The Intelligence Divide
Closing the gaps and creating alignment in AI systems.
Access to technology and the internet has essentially become a prerequisite for full participation across nearly all aspects of society - jobs, education, government services, healthcare, civic life, and more. Yet profound disparities persist in affordable access to devices, broadband infrastructure, and digital literacy that correlate strongly with existing lines of disadvantage around income, geography, age, and race.
This "digital divide" presents the greatest civil rights challenge of our time because it fundamentally deprives marginalized groups of agency, voice, and opportunity in the modern world. As society integrates new innovations like AI that risk amplifying these gaps even further, addressing the digital divide with urgency through policy, public investment, and accountability efforts is essential to enable digital progress to uplift all of society rather than exclude. Collaboration that cuts across government, industry, nonprofits, and communities will be integral to ensuring technology expands rights and possibilities for marginalized peoples rather than curtailing them.
Co-created Innovation
Stakeholder Governance
Resilient Local Economy
Access and Education
Holon City is a Circle of Life-Mastery project
Circle of Life-Mastery encourages, promotes and advances the understanding of and expands the knowledge of consciousness, spiritual growth, and emotional health. We use principles and techniques that focus on expanding individuals' innate abilities to lead more conscious and fulfilling lives.
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