{"id":1251,"date":"2010-06-29T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2010-06-29T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T04:00:57","slug":"who-will-be-the-edison-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/who-will-be-the-edison-of-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will be the Edison of the 21st century??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Andy Revkin had asked the question on Twitter:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Revkin<\/em><br \/>\nThomas Edison, with energy breakthroughs, \u201cinvented the 20th century.\u201d Who\u2019ll invent the 21st? http:\/\/shar.es\/m8ziQ #energy #innovation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The way nature engineers her highly dramatic smooth changes in complex systems, her<strong>\u201cpunctuated equilibria\u201d<\/strong>, is to\u00a0<strong>begin with explosive reorganization and energy flows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ccatch\u201d is that initial spurt is also their end, producing nothing lasting\u2026 *unless* the reverse cycle leading toward\u00a0<strong>the resolution of all those multiplying loose ends<\/strong>kicks in, called\u00a0<strong>\u201cmaturation\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, if Edison invented the 20th century, the author of our explosion as it were, \u201cWho will invent the 21st century\u201d? It\u2019s already quite clear, and already done. It just hasn\u2019t taken hold yet. It was Keynes, actually, in more or less a footnote that was widely misinterpreted. He called it \u201cthe widow\u2019s cruse\u201d, defining the crystal clear and necessary steps a market economy must take to avoid destroying itself financially when approaching the operating limits of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who first considers doing what is quite physically necessary finds it \u201cunthinkable\u201d is one reason we\u2019re in danger of not carefully looking into it, and failing as a global system. It would be unquestionably a huge relief, and assure our future comfort and security\u2026two very positive things we could get to like,\u2026 IF we could just get over the shock of dealing with physical realities we hoped we\u2019d never have to!<\/p>\n<p>Blog entries linking Keynes\u2019 ideas about general systems ecology with current issues. fyi http:\/\/synapse9.com\/blog\/category\/natural-economy\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Revkin had asked the question on Twitter: Revkin Thomas Edison, with energy breakthroughs, \u201cinvented the 20th century.\u201d Who\u2019ll invent the 21st? http:\/\/shar.es\/m8ziQ #energy #innovation &nbsp; The way nature engineers her highly dramatic smooth changes in complex systems, her\u201cpunctuated equilibria\u201d, is to\u00a0begin with explosive reorganization and energy flows. The \u201ccatch\u201d is that initial spurt is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/who-will-be-the-edison-of-the-21st-century\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who will be the Edison of the 21st century??<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}