Future Dispersion Protocol (FDP) is the study of what types of changes in society, technology, and government agencies will be needed 100 years from today to make our lives and the lives of our ancestors better.

It all revolves around two questions:
1) What defines better for people in particular localities? Localities, being physical and virtual.
2) What individual and small group locality changes need to occur to achieve better?

After settling on a series of definitions, it’s a matter of tracking back to the present day in order to determine the changes needed. There are numerous paths and branches, which is part of what makes this both fun and useful.

It also requires tracking forward from today to the envisioned futures as a check to see if the paths look reasonably sound or if something has a high probability of going off the rails. Answering the why of success or failure then leads to refinements in our FDP models.

What does all this mean to you?

Historically, humanity has progressed forward in fits and starts–some of the progress being positive for the majority of people involved and some being negative. While we’re not advocating for detailed societal planning, which has proven to lead to a variety of problems, we are advocating for high-level planning and rubber-meets-the-road implementation to remove some of the haphazardness from our collective mission of making the future a better place for most people.

What does all this mean to business?

There’s always been this big question mark: does technology drive societal change or the other way around?

Take the world’s first computer: The Antikythera mechanism. It was a mechanical computer developed by the Greeks over 2,000 years ago used to calculate planetary locations in relation to the earth.

Not only were the calculations accurate, but the design, materials, and manufacturing involved in its creation were thought to be available to humankind for only the last few centuries.

Then Antikythera computer ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean as part of the content of a sunken ship–the technology lost to society.

Had it proliferated 2,000 years ago, what cultural changes would have occurred because of it? Would quantum physics have been thoroughly investigated during the Roman era?

More importantly, what types of societal changes would have been driven in our ongoing quest to achieve: better?

Or, was the computer invented because the Greeks were trying to achieve better?

And what commerce change would have been driven regardless of the above chicken-and-egg question?

Future Dispersion Protocol

The mission of those of us working on FDP is to move from the philosophical questions posed by our research to recommendations about what possibilities will be available during the next 100 years and what changes will be needed to make our collective and individual lives better.

 

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