Second Renaissance

I’ve noticed there are actually a few books out that use the term ‘Second Renaissance’.

From a superficial review they all seem quite techno-utopian in orientation.

The most interesting seems to be this one: https://books.google.yco.uk/books?id=EZGObIklvW0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
as it draws heavily on Ken Wilber.

Others include:

https://amzn.eu/d/bRZD7Xlggg

https://amzn.eu/d/8yT3tHK

I worked quite a bit with Robin Lincoln Wood about a year ago and read several of his titles. It’s all interesting and useful. (I did not read the specific Second Renaissance title, however).

Robin’s bio is very colorful. Among other things, he did a stint in corporate finance in the 1990s. Then at some point he decided a more alternative, eco-friendly lifestyle was to be preferred. He absorbed quite a bit of Wilberian and Spiral Dynamics influence along the way. His work in the past couple decades straddled corporate consulting and forward-looking lifestyle choices. His “Second Renaissance” was to be a movement to build the future, but the funding blew up around the Great Recession of 2007-08.

In my preferred Ikigai terms, Robin has always had his eye on the “What can I get paid for?” quadrant right along with “what do I love?” and “what does the world need?”. Inarguably, though, he brings dozens of dimensions to the question “what I am good at?”

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