La technique n'est plus un intermédiaire incertain et incomplet entre l'homme et le milieu naturel. Ce dernier est totalement dominé et utilisé (dans la société occidentale). La technique constitue désormais une matrice qui se substitue à la nature.
– Jacques Ellul in “Recherche pour une Éthique dans une société technicienne,” Morale et Enseignement, 1983, page 7
Megatrend **#30** - The Acceleration Paradox: "As change accelerates exponentially, our challenge is to steer this incredible power toward a more humane and hopeful future, rather than increasing the destructive impacts we've seen so far!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)
We live in a time of incredible promise and yet one of terrible peril.
We are the most advanced species we have ever been, and yet, we are ultimately capable of not living up to the demands for success that history places upon us.
It seems that we are failing the test.
As someone who has built his career on. The issue of speed - how leaders can align to it, companies can adapt to it, and people can respond to it - I thought it fitting that the final megatrend in my series should have to do with this issue. Right now, accelerating technological change is reshaping our world, creating unprecedented progress and fueling significant societal instability and risk. The coming decade will intensify this trend, demanding we adapt to steer progress and manage systemic risks.
So what's it all about? The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, a phenomenon I call the Acceleration Paradox. We are witnessing not just incremental progress but an exponential surge in technological capabilities that presents both incredible opportunities and profound challenges. Put it another way, we're doing well at discovering new things, but aren't good at dealing with the reality of those things. Your PDF for the full report is here.
https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend30-TheAccelerationParadox.pdf
We are, as they say, living in the best of times, but doing our best to make it the worst of times!
Let's start here by considering just a few of the things around us that keep moving faster, and then consider how it is all going off the rails as entire nations turn their back on the promise of tomorrow.
Read the full post.
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Futurist Jim Carroll has focused on the issue of 'speed' in many of his books: The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast; Thing Big, Start Small, Scale Fast; and Ready, Set Done. Even his book, What I Learned from Frogs in Texas, featured a quirky story of what happens when you don't align yourself with the speed of change.
**#Acceleration** **#Paradox** **#Technology** **#Change** **#Innovation** **#Progress** **#Disruption** **#Future** **#Adaptation** **#Speed**
La société automatique de Bernard Stiegler : accélération, prolétarisation et désintégration
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Several dark comets – including the relatively large #2003RM – have been found in the near-Earth neighbourhood. These dark #comets 
underwent bursts of #acceleration, enough to move off their orbits by hundreds of kilometres every few years. What lies behind their erratic movements remains a mystery. They do not show any signs of material being ejected from their surface https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250807-a-japanese-spacecraft-is-racing-toward-a-mysterious-dark-comet-to-discover-the-secrets-it-holds
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@urlyman I hear and appreciate your concern about #Acceleration. I am not an accelerationist like #PeterThiel. I don't deny that tech and change is accelerating and creating conditions that have the potential to be damaging. Again, I am reminded of #FutureShock by #AlvinToffler It's an oldie but a goodie. Here is the youtube link. #WeCantGoBack #WeHaveToGoForward #WeHaveToGrowUp and be adult. https://youtu.be/fkUwXenBokU
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3000 RPM is exactly the middle of the range of a standard consumer car #engine. And for combustion engines it's where they are the most efficient in terms of horsepower over fuel consumption. You don't want to put any load, even moderate acceleration on your engine at low #RPM, which is basically idling.
See. You want to accelerate, ok, moderately, but still to accelerate. You need some amount of energy for that. The energy comes from burning fuel, nothing else. So, to accelerate at a certain rate you need some volume of fuel. Now, lets shift gears the way so the engine keeps low RPM, let's say 1500 RPM, the half of 3000 to simplify the math. At 1500 it will make half the strokes per second than at 3000. But you still have to pour the same amount of fuel per second to keep up with the acceleration. So the engine is forced to burn twice as much fuel per stroke. That means more compression in the cylinder, more stress on moving parts, more heat. And more heat means more energy lost into the environment. So no, accelerating even moderately at low RPM is not efficient. That's why automatic #transmissions are configured to rev up when #acceleration is requested.
3000 RPM is louder, yes. But in this mode the engine mostly blows air through its cylinders if the load is moderate. It produces relatively less heat because it burns less fuel per stroke. Also when the transmission is on lower gear the engine endures less stress.
So, no, it's not a scream. It's a song :)
PS: Very high RPM, like at 6000 is also not most efficient but it's used for max #horsepower the engine can produce when needed (Sports Mode).
𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝 **#18** - 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬: "𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛." - Futurist Jim Carroll
(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)
Product lifecycles have collapsed as things become 'things from the olden days' faster. It is not just that business models that once lasted decades now face obsolescence in years or even months. The ability to continuously reinvent your value proposition is no longer optional; it is survival.
Let's call it "The End of Enduring Advantage." In the future, pretty much every organization is going to have to navigate the era of compressed innovation, mimicking what leading-edge organizations are already doing today.
Here's what's up: the fundamental rhythm of economic change has quickened to a pace that invalidates long-held strategic assumptions. The shift from stable, defensible market positions to a state of perpetual flux is not merely an increase in speed but a change in the very nature of competition.
Products used to last months, years, and even decades before they were obsolete - today, it might be mere months or even days.
Behind this trend is the age-old reality that eventually, every product and service runs its course - its life cycle comes to an end. Joseph Schumpeter's concept of "creative destruction" described the "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." Historically, this was envisioned as a powerful but periodic 'gale' that would sweep through the economy over decades.
Companies lasted a long time, as did the products they brought to market.
That's no longer the case. Today, this periodic gale has transformed into a perpetual, high-velocity hurricane.
The impact? The actual average lifespan of a company has decreased rather dramatically in the last few decades.
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**#Innovation** **#Speed** **#Reinvention** **#Acceleration** **#Agility** **#Disruption** **#Transformation** **#Velocity** **#Competition** **#Future**
Civilisation machinique et clôture algorithmique : capturer les subjectivités, neutraliser le dissensus
De #Marx à l’#IA, la #lutteDesClasses s’est déplacée. La #civilisationMachinique capture désormais les #subjectivités, à #vitesseAlgorithmique. Hors du #code, plus #rien n’existe. #technique #subjectivité #empireCognitif #accélération #mégamachine #postMarxisme #postPolis #philosophie Depuis les fondations des sociétés hydrauliques pyramidales, la civilisation…
La dépossession du temps : de Bergson à l’accélération contemporaine
Du #tempsVécu de Bergson à la #colonisation du #mondeVécu (#Habermas), l’#accélérationTechnique (#Virilio, #Rosa) centralise la #domination : elle écrase la #durée, capte les #subjectivités et appauvrit la #mémoire. La #dépossession du #temps, c’est la dépossession du #monde. #accélération #cohabitation #futur #passé #présent La distinction de Bergson entre le temps mesuré (chronos) et la durée vécue…
Bergson, la durée et l’accélération technique : quand le temps vécu s’efface
Pour #Bergson, la #durée – le #tempsVécu, subjectif – s’oppose au #tempsMesuré des horloges. L’#accélérationTechnique moderne écrase cette durée, sacrifiant la #maturation et la #mémoireProfonde au profit de l’#instantanéité. #Bergson #temps #accélération #mémoire #cohabitation #philosophie #temporalité Henri Bergson a profondément renouvelé notre compréhension du temps en distinguant deux…
Le #postMarxisme devrait intégrer la critique du #travail, de la #croissance et de l'#accélération, ainsi, une fois l'étape post-marxiste passée, il ne restera plus que celle de la #postPolis de Michel #Serres pour #panser la #cohabitation .
Rouvrir l’espace des possibles : pour une cohabitation créatrice face à la mégamachine
Création collective (#Benjamin, #Barad, #Haraway, #Tsing), #désobéissanceFertile (#MorelDarleux), réinvention du #vivreEnsemble (#Illich) : face à la #mégamachine (#Mumford), à l’#accélération (#Rosa) et à la criseÉcologique (#Saito), il s’agit de rouvrir l’#espaceDesPossibles (#Nietzsche, #Bergson, #Bloch, #Gorz, #Deleuze, #Toynbee, #Jameson, #Latour) pour faire de la #cohabitation…
Déchiffrer le pouvoir : l’étude, condition de la lucidité face à l’accélération prométhéenne
Les discours ne suffisent pas : pour #comprendre et #déjouer les #dominations, il faut une phase d’#étude. L’#accélération vers le #murÉcologique exige une #luciditéCritique que seule une démarche patiente et collective peut offrir. #philosophie #écologie #pouvoir #postMarxisme #postTravail #postPolis Quand je repense au temps passé à déchiffrer les mystères du pouvoir, je suis…
Réencastrer la société dans le vivant : pour une écologie de l’interdépendance
De #Serres à #Haraway, de #Saito à #Tsing, repenser la #société comme partie prenante du #vivant : sortir de l’#extractivisme, reconnaître l’#interdépendance humains/non-humains et inventer de nouveaux #modesDeCohabitation. #écologie #cohabitation #postMarxism #postTravail #postPolis #acceleration #domination #postDomination Face à la crise écologique, un changement de paradigme s’impose : …
Forests Can’t Keep Up: Adaptation Will Lag Behind Climate Change
https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/forests-cant-keep-adaptation-will-lag-behind-climate-change
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #acceleration #forests #vegetation #biodiversity #ecosystems #mismatch #adaptation
"On peut opposer deux #stratégies au #temps.
Celle du moustique qui s'offre une orgie de sang et de lumière ou bien celle de la #tortue à la longévité #sacrificielle.
L'homme pourrait choisir une voie médiane, alternant accélérations et pauses létales.
Mais depuis que nous sommes gouvernés par les #machines , c'est l'#accélération qui prime.
Avec la #massification et la #numérisation, elle est le fait social de notre temps...."
Earthling84 
