Humanity is living through a period in which many of our greatest achievements and greatest risks are unfolding at the same time. Whole Life Times explores the future not as something that simply happens to us, but as something shaped through choices, relationships, institutions, imagination and participation. This field brings together questions of peace, governance, economics, social change, population, technology, culture, ecology and the possibility of an emerging eco-civilisation in which human flourishing and planetary wellbeing are understood as inseparable.
A major exploration of artificial intelligence, superintelligence, consciousness and the choices humanity may face as increasingly powerful AI systems become part of civilisation.
Read in the current issueWhat happens to work, value, livelihoods and social organisation if automation increasingly replaces paid labour?
Read articleErvin Laszlo and related contributors explore humanity's possible transition toward a more peaceful, coherent and life-affirming civilisation.
Read Special EditionThe Gaiarcadia Summit brings together thinkers exploring planetary consciousness, ecological civilisation and humanity's possible evolutionary futures.
Open Summit Special EditionZhiwa Woodbury explores ecological identity, climate trauma and the possibility of a more conscious human relationship with the living Earth.
Explore 2023 #1Gaiarcadia is especially relevant to Humanity & Our Future because it brings together the ecological, social, technological, educational and consciousness-related dimensions of transformation. Rather than treating the future as a technical forecasting exercise, it asks what kind of civilisation we are becoming and what forms of participation might help move us towards a more regenerative one.
Gaiarcadia Academy can provide an ongoing setting in which the future is explored not merely as an object of study but as a field of participation — linking ecological literacy, systems thinking, leadership, consciousness, culture and practical action.
Explore GaiarcadiaThe second Summit gives Whole Life Times a point on the horizon around which a continuing two-year exploration can grow. Articles, Dialogues, WLT Connect sessions and Academy activities can introduce people, ideas and questions long before the gathering itself begins.
Follow Summit 2028Questions about humanity's future cut across almost every field we are mapping. Climate and biodiversity connect with economics and governance. Artificial intelligence connects with education, work and ethics. Water connects with agriculture, cities, health and geopolitics. Peace connects with culture, inequality and the stories societies tell about one another.
The developing Whole Life Universal Field of Knowledge can make those relationships visible by allowing material from WLT, Gaiarcadia, books, Dialogues and carefully selected outside sources to meet around shared questions.
Future thinking becomes deeper when we ask not only what serves the present but what kind of inheritance today's decisions are creating. Preserving sources, context and relationships within the Field of Knowledge can help future generations understand both the challenges we faced and the possibilities we were trying to create.
Conversations with people imagining and building forms of civilisation capable of living within ecological limits while supporting human flourishing.
Exploring the institutions, relationships and cultural capacities needed to navigate an increasingly interdependent world.
Asking how emerging technologies, social choices and changing values may reshape what becomes possible for humanity.