worldview

The world 1.0 is that of the XXth century, the fruit of various secular trends.

Some of these structural trends will still persist in the XXIst century and the study of macrohistory will help us identify them.

However, other trends are already changing rapidly, as announced by the great thinkers within the last century (SOROKIN, BERGER, CAPRA, etc). It is essential "not to be a cork tossed around by the currents" (S. DALENS) but to identify these changes and to appreciate their impacts in the near, medium and long term. This is the role of exploratory foresight.

Now and then we can/must adapt to these changes, of which some appear only in their transitory form. This is why we speak of world 2.0, an already different world but still heavily dominated by world 1.0. This transitional period is a period of great turbulence, in which the old refuses to yield while the new begins its transformational work.

Innovation becomes obligatory to allow the invention of new solutions to old problems (hunger in the world, etc) as well as to new problems which are emerging (ageing, rarity of unqualified work, ubiquity, etc).

World 3.0 is the after-transition. It is as yet unknown, but it will define the XXII century. We can contribute to shaping it if we act now. That is, we can affect world 3.0 as the Enlightenment thinkers of the XVIII° century affect us today.