My "living book" growing through conversations
Conversations around how to build a better future. Convergence one day?
The Imaginize.World website and video-audio podcast series is what I consider to be a "living book". It's alive, developing and evolving regularly. Above all, it brings together seeds for thought from people around the world.
Why did I start a "living book"?
After writing The Gig Mindset Advantage, A Bold New Breed, I realized that writing a second book was not what I really wanted to do.
This is what happened: I enjoyed the process, but when it was finished, out for a few months, I discovered a new perspective on what it was bringing to readers. I wanted to edit the description I had provided to Amazon, to share the new positioning, but my publisher said that was not possible. Once a description is formalized, that's it! Voilà. Done.
I had many ideas I wanted to explore.
So I decided to do this in conversations with other people in my network of networks and to share them "de vive voix" as we say in French. (in real voices)
I started several months ago. I discovered after doing my first interviews, or rather conversations! that each one left me with ideas that stimulated my thinking towards more ideas. I have also discovered a fascinating amount of crossover among my guests.
I recently interviewed David Weinberger and one thing he said struck me because it put into words what I had been feeling:
"Lifelong learning [is] more available than ever....It’s going to happen in the conversations, .... the 'normal' ones that we live in on the internet or whatever follows after the internet."
Lifelong learning or, in my case, a non-stop flow of ideas.
What is my overall goal you may wonder?
My goal for Imaginize.World is simple and is based on two questions:
Today we need to focus on the future for young generations. What kind of world do we want for them? How can we help them build it?
So that's among the questions I ask my guests. We often focus on the future, especially the future of education, but also the close or mid-term future that lies ahead of all of us. Or... is already here, depending on your viewpoint and life philosophy.
What's inside my living book?
Ten-Minute Highlights introductory "pages"
If you're like me, you like to get a quick sense of what something is about before investing time and digging in hoping you'll like it! That's why I have 10-Minute Highlight videos that correspond to all my conversations in the In-Depth series.
They are organized in a playlist on YouTube, but I have just finished linking them to all my guest pages on Imaginize.World so you can find the one(s) you want using the guest-page links below.
Guest pages
Each guest page now has links to the 10-Minute video, the In-Depth video, the Podcast, a short description of the guest, and – most importantly – a transcript (human-generated) for the full conversation.
Shaping our Reality with Chen Qiufan
After World with Debbie Urbanski
Sugata Mitra and the End of Knowing
Will future technology have our back? with Thomas Vander Wal
Immersive Technology with Mark Gröb of UPS
The AI Dilemma with Art Kleiner
Humanity Has No Borders with Robin Vincent-Smith
Wikimedia, essential infrastructure for open knowledge with Florence Devouard
More coming
That's it for now. More conversations are already happening and I'll be sharing them later. Please share with me any ideas or comments you have about everything I've said here!
Thank you for reading my article.