The possible fruits of such a journey are boundless: new methods to predict natural disasters and mount effective relief; new strategies for creativity and innovation; new ways of using smart technologies, open innovation, and the Creative Commons; a deeper understanding that life is short, and in the end we only have each other.
Shifts in consciousness are frightening because they demand that we deal with uncertainty in a new way. Many may quickly dismiss the proposals set forth here as "unfeasible." The unstated and unconscious premise is that uncertainty is the enemy; fear yearns for certainty and masquerades itself as reason. But what if uncertainty instead is the fountainhead of all creative breakthroughs and our deluded "knowing," the source of our dilemmas? If we can together achieve this breakthrough in consciousness and apply our insights in this crisis, future historians may well look back on Fukushima as the beginning of Japan's 21st Century Renaissance.
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- Copyright, Julian Gresser, August 2013; all rights reserved. Julian Gresser is an international attorney, inventor, entrepreneur, professional negotiator, and recognized expert on Japan. He has served as a Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Holbrooke in the State Department during the Carter Administration, to the Prime Minister's Office of Japan (during the term of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira) as well as the European Commission and other governments. He was twice Mitsubishi Visiting Professor at the Harvard Law School and is the co-author with Koichiro Fujikura and Akio Morishima of Environmental Law in Japan (MIT Press, 1981) among other works. His just published book, Piloting Through Chaos--The Explorer's Mind (Bridge 21 Publications August 2013) provides a blueprint on how to approach "wicked" environmental and social problems. Piloting Through Chaos--The Explorer's Mind is the world's first Living Adaptive Multimedia Book (LAMB - ) based on a smart platform which he co-invented.
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