Canadian Association for the Club of Rome | Ruben Nelson Alberta's Struggle with the Future 03Nov2021 @canadianassociationforthec7885 | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Keywords: Alberta, future, politics, history
Summary:
Why it is that, even with all its many talents and blessings, Alberta has long had a problem coming to terms with the emerging conditions of the future? He will draw on his understanding of and experience with Alberta’s history, economy, demographics, mythology, and politics. He will focus particularly on the interplay among these factors with a view to understanding the resulting outputs and outcomes. Alberta will be shown to be one of the world’s great exemplars of a successful 20th Century version of a Modern Techno-Industrial (MTI) culture. He will explore the insight that it is Alberta’s commitment to keep this game going that inhibits its ability to even see, much less understand and respond to the emerging conditions of the 21st Century. He will identify some lessons that speak to the broader issue of understanding and coping with the “human problematique.”
Bio:
Ruben Nelson is one of the Canadian pioneers of serious futures thinking and its application in the practice is Strategic Foresight. In 1960, when still an undergraduate, he co-chaired what may have been the first formal futures conference in Canada. This got him hooked on thinking about the emerging future. Since then, Ruben has spent his life exploring the many ways we and our world are changing. He has used his insights in every corner and sector of Canada to assist senior executives in every sector make reliable sense of their adjacent futures.
Ruben’s research has led him to the view that, if we are to sustain success in the unique conditions of the 21st Century, we must develop new mental maps of where we are in history. Through no fault of our own, ours is a rare time of history in which the tacit understandings we as Modern Techno-Industrial (MTI) peoples and cultures have come to hold of our world and ourselves can no longer lead us to the future we most deeply desire.
Learning to do a better job of what we already know how to do, doesn’t cut it anymore.
Over six decades, Ruben has taught philosophy and comparative religion, worked for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, helped formulate Canada’s policy on Multiculturalism and been a leader in the Canadian Association for Futures Studies, the International Association for Humanistic Psychology, the World Futures Studies Federation and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science.
Keywords: Alberta, future, politics, history
Summary:
Why it is that, even with all its many talents and blessings, Alberta has long had a problem coming to terms with the emerging conditions of the future? He will draw on his understanding of and experience with Alberta’s history, economy, demographics, mythology, and politics. He will focus particularly on the interplay among these factors with a view to understanding the resulting outputs and outcomes. Alberta will be shown to be one of the world’s great exemplars of a successful 20th Century version of a Modern Techno-Industrial (MTI) culture. He will explore the insight that it is Alberta’s commitment to keep this game going that inhibits its ability to even see, much less understand and respond to the emerging conditions of the 21st Century. He will identify some lessons that speak to the broader issue of understanding and coping with the “human problematique.”
Bio:
Ruben Nelson is one of the Canadian pioneers of serious futures thinking and its application in the practice is Strategic Foresight. In 1960, when still an undergraduate, he co-chaired what may have been the first formal futures conference in Canada. This got him hooked on thinking about the emerging future. Since then, Ruben has spent his life exploring the many ways we and our world are changing. He has used his insights in every corner and sector of Canada to assist senior executives in every sector make reliable sense of their adjacent futures.
Ruben’s research has led him to the view that, if we are to sustain success in the unique conditions of the 21st Century, we must develop new mental maps of where we are in history. Through no fault of our own, ours is a rare time of history in which the tacit understandings we as Modern Techno-Industrial (MTI) peoples and cultures have come to hold of our world and ourselves can no longer lead us to the future we most deeply desire.
Learning to do a better job of what we already know how to do, doesn’t cut it anymore.
Over six decades, Ruben has taught philosophy and comparative religion, worked for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, helped formulate Canada’s policy on Multiculturalism and been a leader in the Canadian Association for Futures Studies, the International Association for Humanistic Psychology, the World Futures Studies Federation and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science.
