Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive

Why is it time to provide a meta-framework for looking at the city as if it were a whole system? In 100 years cities may, like beehives, be classified as just one of two kinds: wild or designed. Wild cities will be like the cities most of us know today — mostly unplanned, self-organizing, ever-evolving, suboptimal habitats of swarming humanity. But will designed cities be more than the cities that are starting to emerge from the deserts of United Arab Emirates or flicker as CAD/CAMs on the computer screens of developers, architects, engineers and visionaries?

Web 3.0: The Integral Landscape of the Coming Semantic Web

The semantic wave embraces four stages of internet growth. The first stage, Web 1.0, was about connecting information and getting on the net. Web 2.0 is about connecting people — putting the “I” in user interface, and the “we” into Webs of social participation. The next stage, Web 3.0, is starting now. It is about representing meanings, connecting knowledge, and putting these to work in ways that make our experience of internet more relevant, useful, and enjoyable. Web 4.0 will come later.

Mindsets in Action

With the goal of examining the subject of sustainability through a new lens, uncovering how business organizations are reconciling their role in the world today and into the future— and what it will take to realize that future—Avastone Consulting, a partner of Integral Life and Integral Institute, drew upon an integral framework to conduct the Avastone Corporate Sustainability Study (ACSS).