EVOLUTION GUIDED BY DESIGN - A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

We are at a critical juncture of societal evolution where unprecedente d human fulfillment as well as a loss of direction are equally possibl e. However, we are not at the mercy of forces beyond our control but h ave the potential and the opportunity to give direction to our evoluti on by design and steer it toward a hoped-for future, provided we: (1) develop evolutionary consciousness (2) engage in conscious evolution ( 3) acquire evolutionary competence by evolutionary learning (4) create evolutionary images of our future, and (5) bring those images to life by design. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.