Adjacent Possible Playground: 21C Literacies
Card-play conversations solving for preferable outcomes
In a network, card-play and card-play conversations designed for collaborative narratives, augmenting coordination of human effort addressing worthwhile dilemmas, solving for preferable outcomes evaluated against envisioned end-game scenarios.
A generative sequence:
question, card, … pattern of play …, card, … pattern of play …, insight, conversations, actionable insight, understanding, shared understanding as generative closure
… formulate and gather around generative center questions …
Card: Cards
Cards are fundamental
units of expression.
… pick cards and add your thoughts between …
… apply sign use conducive to exploring the relevant next …
Card: Intelligence turned Ability
Applying the cards to generative questions
along with human and AI-assisted annotations
to online communication fosters improved
understanding, alignment, and collaboration
addressing worthwhile dilemmas and solving
for preferable outcomes, evaluated against
envisioned end-game scenarios.
… apply sign use* and conversational intelligence*,
exploring the relevant next …
Card: Conversational Intelligence
By embracing conversational intelligence and
its components, individuals can navigate online
interactions with more empathy, critical thinking,
and meaningful engagement, contributing to
addressing and resolving important issues.
… apply sign use conducive to addressing
worthwhile dilemmas, solving for preferable outcomes …
Card: Cards as Toolkit
The cards serve as a versatile toolkit for
enhancing online communication and
discourse at scale, bridging between
human interaction and AI assistance
in ways that mind, cultivate and matter.
… engage in card-play conversations around center, generative questions, with human and AI-assisted card annotations addressing worthwhile dilemmas, cultivating shared understanding as generative closure, with thoughts, insights, moves, paths and preferable outcomes evaluated against envisioned end game scenarios …
Written in 2015 Mar 9:
2014–2016
The lost rabbit hole years, the last imploding stage of old, ersatz, 20C media.
2017–2019
Networks designed to enable (knowledge) logistics, rather than advertising.
2020–2022
Humanity rising to the occasion (or not) depending on how much resonance and resilience we’ve managed to broker through our new distributed, distributive platforms.
2023–2025
Data and Narratives. Uncovering the options we need, rather than using data to reinforce what we’ve already got.
2026–2028
Demise (and possible partial rebirth) of institutions on all levels. Core dynamic behind the transformation: awkward procedures, too much lag time between cognition and action. The insufficiency of Davos.
2029–2031
Understanding. Experiential understanding. A proliferation of grassroots movements. Most which will fail. Some which will succeed, turning societal imaginal cells, depending how quickly the institutions realize they need to either transform or remove themselves.
2032–2035
Last hours of ancient beliefs. All kinds of weird shit — tribes, reactionary movements, conspicuous consumption bordering on Elysium-levels. Out of which a deep unlearning of obsolete beliefs. Birth pains of sustainable regions, some which will make it, some which will not.
2036–2038
Equity and ecology co-evolving. Achieving decent livelihoods for all the human beings that remain. Regions increasingly coordinating needed efforts.
2039 and beyond…
The second half of the 21C will be characterised by our collective, collaborative, cocreative capabilities for stewarding in general and stewarding autopoietic shift in particular. There’s three main scenarios:
* conversational intelligence
Card: Conversational Intelligence
1. What role are you as a conversation participant assuming?
2. What purpose is your comment serving?
3. What needs can be addressed by the conversation?
4. What feedback, mutuality and learning is provided, by whom?
5. What (joint) focus on what story, tasks and what generative review?
6. What experience and knowledge is shared, what perspectives are explored?
7. What criteria are used, towards teasing out what insights?
8. Which are the necessary and sufficient conditions for a meaningful conversation, and what are the steps followed to ensure there’s shared understanding around these conditions?
9. What insights can be turned actionable, serving what local and community needs?
10. What intention, perspectives, language and tools are chosen and held, making for what action and practice?
11. What unique individual skills combined with what collective intelligence can help produce something extraordinary?
12. What networks of practice, co-evolving and co-creating what value, with what lines of inquiry?
13. Given all of the above, what key insights can be drawn and what actions taken, in order to solve what important issues?
* sign use
Card: Chat
Chat when it reproduces
what we think, is sign use.
… use conversational intelligence to level up your social media game …
Card: Chat
Chat does not reproduce what we
think, it makes us think together.
