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Crowdsourcing a. 50-year Progressive vision

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Digital & technological democracy: data commons established; algorithmic oversight public; AI governance public interest.

Economic transformation: shift from growth-at-all-costs to well-being metrics; major investment in community, care economy, green economy; GDP decoupled from resource use.

Education revolution: free postgraduate/training for all; lifelong citizen education becomes norm; community knowledge hubs flourish.

Governance system matured: public banks fully integral; cooperative economy mainstream; civic assemblies and deliberative democracy embedded at many levels.

Foreign policy paradigm shift: military budgets drastically reduced; peace economy matters; war industries transformed to socially useful production pipelines.

Global progressive infrastructure: US progressive ecosystem part of global-progressive network with significant influence; progressive governance models proliferated internationally.

30 Years (2025-2055)

The transformed economy is well established: the predatory capitalism model is largely replaced with a people-and-planet-first model.

Wealth inequality dramatically reduced: top 1% share far lower; social mobility greatly enhanced; economic power widely distributed.

Earth/climate system stabilised: major ecological thresholds avoided; adaptation and resilience infrastructure in place everywhere; climate justice largely realized.

Democracy deeply resilient: authoritarian backsliding rare, civic participation high, media and narrative ecosystem strongly progressive and pluralistic.

Worker-ownership economy dominant in many sectors; major global supply-chains democratized; corporate file downsized.

Universal social security, health, education, housing systems are deeply embedded and robust under stress.

Technological governance matured: public interest tech infrastructure, data sovereignty, algorithmic democracy are standard; automation benefits widely shared.

Global migration and refugee systems operate under rights-based frameworks; global public banks/institutions exist; global progressive alliances strong.

Cultural norms shifted: decommodification mindset widespread; community and relational wealth valued; care economy central.

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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
 

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