Labs - YouthCapitalism Joyful future history - by [e-mail]

[chris macrae]

When you look at the inventions that advance the human lot, over 90% were originated out in the field - often by an intergenerational network (such as a family and close friends network)

 

As the Industrial Revolution took over from society, Labs started to go inside big corporations and universities - to achieve a very different end. Owning a patent for how to process and mass manufacture things. Such labs have never wholly been capable of sustaining focus of social value creation. They have also become increasingly sponsored by deadly industries such as arms, nuclear and weapons

 

And as we emerge from an age of extracting things -and hopefully from one where politicians (tax peoples to) spend a quarter of all our lives on arms projects)-  to one where the great new economies will be sustained rounding how knowhow multiplies value in use (and in communal service)

 

Unlike the late 20th C's massive celebrations of consuming up things, we need to get back to labs that are gravitated -or at least partnered-  where most vital needs require solutions. Youth can be brilliant at celebrating (action networking ) such value. But only if we rid ourselves of the dumbing down (and image-ridden) dynamics that the half century of tv mass media spun.

 

Since the early 1990s media experts interested in webbing the world's most purposeful value chains have been placing labs at the transparent epicenter of society's greatest challenges

 

- 1995 labs of charterers that were published with the Macrae family and friends by The Economist Intelligence Unit -what purpose of each global market sector would sustina the greatest number of working lifetimes of the net generation

-2010 Africa's Ihubs and Free Universities coming next to Dhaka Bangaldesh

-2013-2015 Atlanta's Yunus Creative Lab. It is fascinating that the capital that gave the world the latest tv ad brand is now the laboratory for youth's most exciting collaboration network