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The Contributory Revolution
This book sheds light on a crucial debate on the possible role of the technosciences in meeting the challenges of the future. It shows that the current contributory revolution is global and profound, and that it concerns the whole epistemological field - from the sciences to social organizations. By delving into the epistemological dimension of the lightning transition we are currently experiencing, The Contributory Revolution identifies the levers of the salutary acceleration of collective learning, now essential, but not before the debate on a possible future has been settled via the headlong rush of the technoscientist. However, after this call to move from exo-distributive technoscience, carried by deterministic and Newtonian models, to more biological and endocontributory models - or even from the arrogance of mastery to the humility of influence and alliance - it will be necessary to set its limits to avoid entering into an eco-philosophical radicalism. Only extreme humility, carried by strong spirituality, can protect us from it.
Futures
In the same way as there are many futures, not just one, there are many ways to conceive and practice foresight. The challenge of the great turning point of our civilization is to free ourselves from our prejudices in order to imagine and build desirable futures. The process is, by nature, ethical and prospective. In a complex, uncertain and geopolitically transforming world, we must be open to the diversity of cultures and the different perceptions of the future. This requires us to reflect on the purpose and means of our societies. Futures proposes different cultural and ethical views on civilizational transformation by offering a rare, transnational panorama of the visions of the future in a European, American and Chinese context. Through numerous examples, this book illustrates how foresight is practiced and what this can achieve in strategic terms.
Innovation Ecosystems
Our current situation, marked simultaneously by the Anthropocene, global warming, digitization and exponential artificial intelligence, leads us to sudden and total change in global civilization and, de facto, to rebuilding the foundations of the international economy. Innovation Ecosystems explores the risks and opportunities facing the contemporary world by analyzing, comparing and categorizing the world’s most dynamic innovation ecosystems by region and city. This includes the identification of key characteristics – common or original – and learning from them in terms of culture, management, system and structure, in order to meet current challenges and think about civilizations of the future.
Smart Users for Energy and Societal Transition
Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are now realities. Their causes and origins stem from the energy, goods and resources relied upon by the lifestyle of a growing part of humanity. Smart Users for Energy and Societal Transition presents this much needed transition, as well as the scenarios and paths essential to mitigating the impacts of climate change. It deals with transitions experimented in the form of ecosystems in universities, cities and territories, as well as with concepts of smart buildings, smart grids and smart cities, addressed to smart users – or not – in an interdisciplinary research context. Sociological issues related to the role of smart building users are discussed, ranging from acceptance to the appropriation of the technologies made available to them. The book highlights the ethics of this essential transition and the importance of individual behaviors in safeguarding humanity on a preserved planet.
Futures in Action
In order to think about the future and bring it to life, Futures in Action emphasizes the practical and pragmatic dimensions of foresight. This book makes it possible to develop a vision of the future, to anticipate significant changes and pinpoint the weak areas. Foresight helps to rally players around a common vision, influence strategic decisions, and inspire innovation and organizational transformation. Futures in Action brings together the expertise of contributors from a wide range of public and private organizations. The diversity of their contributions puts into perspective the implementation of foresight both in France and worldwide. Exploring the major lessons and questions to come, this book is for all those who are convinced of the need to anticipate and build the future by taking action today.
Homo Sapiens Collapse or Fulfillment
Will Homo Sapiens be able to tame Artificial Intelligence and open the way towards a new human fulfillment? We are not living in an era that, like so many others, is merely chaotic, but in an epoch that could be a real turning point in the destiny of the human species. Homo Sapiens is not a finished product, but a work in progress, a living organism in evolution, one that has to adapt to new environments. Faced with serial challenges, social, economic, ecological and techno-scientific imbalances, our societies are losing their confidence in the future. And yet from long-time observations in the field, we can observe the discreet development of signs of a radical metamorphosis and new human fulfillment. Perhaps for the first time in its history, Homo Sapiens puts into dialogue its rational, emotional-relational, sensory and spiritual intelligences - and that changes everything.
Smart Users for Energy and Societal Transition
Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are now realities. Their causes and origins stem from the energy, goods and resources relied upon by the lifestyle of a growing part of humanity. Smart Users for Energy and Societal Transition presents this much needed transition, as well as the scenarios and paths essential to mitigating the impacts of climate change. It deals with transitions experimented in the form of ecosystems in universities, cities and territories, as well as with concepts of smart buildings, smart grids and smart cities, addressed to smart users – or not – in an interdisciplinary research context. Sociological issues related to the role of smart building users are discussed, ranging from acceptance to the appropriation of the technologies made available to them. The book highlights the ethics of this essential transition and the importance of individual behaviors in safeguarding humanity on a preserved planet.
Refaire société
Une société malade d'inégalités qui ne se résorbent pas. Une société éclatée en communautés qui ne parviennent plus à se parler. Des réseaux traditionnels qui permettaient de relier les individus - partis politiques, syndicats, religions...- en souffrance ou en perte d'influence. La conséquence est visible, de mouvement social en mouvement social : la France a du mal à se reconnaître dans un projet commun, susceptible de répondre aux attentes du plus grand nombre, et notamment des plus fragiles. A Lille, les SSF, fidèles à leur mission "penser ensemble pour agir et travailler au bien commun", ont dressé le diagnostic de cette France fracturée, mais aussi montré comment, sur tout le territoire, des femmes et des hommes se mettent au service de leur concitoyens. Expertises et analyses permettant de comprendre comment on en est arrivé là, mais aussi qu'il existe des chemins pour faire société, pour mieux vivre ensemble. Sans naïveté, mais sans désespérer de l'avenir.
Éloge de la métamorphose
Une voie pour faire face aux crises planétaires Au point de bifurcation de la civilisation où nous sommes probablement, les crises que nous vivons pourraient entraîner des catastrophes pour l'humanité en nous transformant en fourmilière ou permettre l'émergence de nouvelles voies que l'anthropo-sociologue Alain de Vulpian observait, celles d'une métamorphose humaniste, celles d'un nouvel accord entre l'Homme, la nature et le vivant. Au milieu des tempêtes, ce livre pratique un optimisme méthodologique prudent, en mettant en lumière de nouvelles voies et des exemples de terrain, fondés sur la régénération du vivant et la transformation des personnes devenues autonomes. Rien n'est joué. Ce sont nous, les gens dans leur diversité, gens ordinaires et dirigeants, manuels et intellectuels, jeunes et vieux, savants et ignorants, femmes et hommes... qui, par nos actions et inactions, alimentons la métamorphose humaniste pour construire la société du futur.
La créativité à l'oeuvre en prospective, Entretien avec Jean-Marie Bézard, conseiller de synthèse
La prospective n’est pas la prévision, la prospective n’est pas la science du futur. La prospective est un chemin qui se marche, à plusieurs, avec les yeux grands ouverts pour « voir loin, voir large, voir autrement ». C’est sur ce chemin – qu’il connaît bien – que nous entraîne Jean-Marie Bézard dans le présent entretien, nous invitant à déconstruire les évidences, à ouvrir grand les horizons et à multiplier les points de vue pour engager ce travail de création de l’« à-venir ». Au fil de l’ouvrage et de la conversation se dessinent ainsi les contours de la démarche prospective, de ses origines. Se posent également les défis qui jalonnent son application ...
