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The Agoras of the Twenty-First Century

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Guided Evolution of Society

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We have arrived at the last station of our evolutionary learning journey. We stop for a moment and reflect on the experience of the journey and ask “looking ahead” questions. The end of our present journey marks the beginning of our never ending self-guided evolutionary journey. We have learned enough, and have developed enough confidence to apply what we have learned in working with evolutionary designing communities as well as continue our evolutionary learning from our ongoing evolutionary work. We are ready to join our communities, help them to learn what we have learned, and enter with them into the evolutionary design space.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.

Margaret Mead

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Banathy, B.H. (2000). The Agoras of the Twenty-First Century. In: Guided Evolution of Society. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3139-2_12

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