10 Nordic Principles for a Hyperconnected Planet
Planet Earth is becoming hyperconnected. This transformation is called the Internet of Things, Connected Devices, Programmable World, and many other names. As a result, we are at a major crossroad. What are the conditions under which this change becomes the guiding development of our time? How can we support positive change and use technology to create a better world?
Independent non-profit Nordic thinkthank Demos Helsinki has identified 10 principles to guide development towards a hyperconnected, sustainable planet. Our claim is that if these principles are not followed, our hyperconnected planet will have a more dystopian than utopian future.
We’re using the principles to construct an index for comparing nations, cities, and companies, and providing them with recommendations about how to do this correctly.
I. The Parity principle
In order for hyperconnectedness to be the most significant development of our era, it has to play its part in solving the grand challenges of our times.
Currently, human development is tied to increased resource consumption. Decoupling this correlation is one of humanity’s biggest challenges. In order to ensure social in all parts of the world, disconnection of material and energy usage needs to be achieved.
The Parity principle is not only an opportunity, but also an imperative. Technological progress often provides applications and things that are nice to have, but it doesn’t always solve concrete and significant societal challenges. However, we’re currently living through a transition. More and more people are looking for substantive solutions instead of mobile games. Many of the pioneers of the digital era, such as Elon Musk, are calling for grand solutions. Mechanisms and actors such as the Founders’ Fund and the Singularity University are emerging to support initiatives that provide concrete solutions through technological innovation.
However, the Parity principle doesn’t only apply to technological innovations. It also implies a wider paradigm shift in which hyperconnectedness should initiate solutions for the world’s problems instead of gimmicks and insignificant applications.
These two approaches depict alternative routes through which hyperconnectedness can help to decouple the correlation between human development and ecological consumption. Progress can be measured through the slope between the Human Developmen Index (HDI) and the ecological footprint.
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I agree that the usage of finite resources will be one of the most challenging things of the near future.
Sadly decades have been lost here, mostly due to on the one hand people continuing as if there is no problem, and the only counterweight where tree-huggers who wanted us to start consuming less.
People will never consume less. We will just consume more and more, our kids, a our grandkids will use more than we did, just like we consumed more that our parents and grandparents.
Rather than fighting this trend (which is almost impossible) we will have to find ways to keep up that increased consumption of goods and energy, with a decreased usage of finite resources. Things like renewable energy and cradle-to-cradle design will be very important in this, as will a higher energy efficiency of all our processes be very important.
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