THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

dozens of names involved in Chaos and Complexity themes were all
key milestones in that process.
'The old metaphors of the world as a soulless machine with humans
as separate "objective" observers have been replaced by a living and
learning world with which humans communicate and share part of
the responsibility for its evolution. Some say that we have been
forced into this new world-view to be able to deal with global issues
such as pollution, deforestation, climate changes or the weakening of
me ozone layer.
'One key integration catalyst was also a paradox. It arose when one
of the most Yang technologies of the entire industrial Age - the
computer - spawned for the first time a perfectly Yin space where
such an integration could flourish without constraints. I am referring
to the 'cybersphere" which succeeded the old Internet. The paradox is
even stronger when taking into account mat all this was developed
initially for the US military at the end of the Cold War. New
synergies between the virtual world and the physical world gave rise
to me integral Economy.
[As a reminder, the cybersphere is the virtual space where all
earlier communications technologies such as telephone, TV,
computers and payment systems converged into a coherent whole
(Chapters 3 and 4). The concepts of Yin and Yang, and of the integral
Economy will be explained below.]
The professor continued: 'To understand the full scope or that
process, a framework initially coined by the mid-20thcentury
anthropologist Teilhard de Chardin will prove useful.'
Suddenly a crisp diagram appeared as if floating in vibrant primary
colours a few feet in front of all four white walls of me room. The
professor moved in between the front graph and me wall. I became