A half-way technology is, by definition, half way to the right spot, and soon to be replaced by something better. In the case of OST, I think the "better" is what we have had all along (self-organization) but refused, or were unable, to recognize it. So it is all about half way to coming home again. And for all those who have seen OST to be something new and different, this may come as a shock. It is as old as the millennia, which is kind of nice.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas D. Germann, Sr. Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Half-way to this? Good friends-- Open Space is a half-way technology. So says Harrison. Half-way to what? Open Space Technology, The World Café, and the dozens of other meeting formats that have been appearing among humans the last few decades are harbingers of a growing shoot. The growing edge is to see what can be done to improve humanity in a fundamental way. The direction is toward collaboration, or more precisely toward growing us from the fact that there is something larger afoot. That something larger suggests that we are an intricate interwoven pulsating and throbbing one. Or can be. So we are half-way, perhaps, to developing technologies and sciences that bring us together, foster and grow from conflict, increase diversity and passion, and ensure that each generation following ours is more human than the one before it. Are we making any progress on the question of Half-way to what? :-Doug. Germann Seeking people making community change. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
