Shlomo Shoham - Future Intelligence
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As the pace of change in the world has grown more rapid, an emphasis on survival and shortterm thinking has increasingly pervaded the realm of leadership and political decisionmaking. Consequently, the need for creative approaches in addressing the future has become more urgent than ever. In a bold response to this problem, the Israeli Knesset established the Commission for Future Generations and appointed Shlomo Shoham as head of the commission in 2001. Shoham was tasked with the difficult work of representing the needs, interests, and desires of those not yet born.In this book, Shoham demonstrates how we can overcome the pitfalls of short-term thinking by developing our future intelligence. This kind of intelligence, he argues, is the key to infusing public administration with visionary thinking and creative foresight. As a seasoned practitioner of intergenerational justice, Shoham articulates new ways of conceptualizing and actively shaping the future for the better in education, health, environmental, and economic policymaking.
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2010 Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gtersloh
Responsible: Andreas Esche
Production editor: Sabine Reimann
Managing editor: Barbara Serfozo, Berlin
Copy editor: Josh Ward, Bonn
Cover design: Nadine Human
Cover photo: Tal Shani
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Responsible: Andreas Esche
Production editor: Sabine Reimann
Managing editor: Barbara Serfozo, Berlin
Copy editor: Josh Ward, Bonn
Cover design: Nadine Human
Cover photo: Tal Shani
Typesetting and printing: Hans Kock
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ISBN : 978-3-86793-300-1
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Table of Contents
Endorsements
From Reuven Rivlin
Shlomo, my dear friend!
Your book provokes admiration for the topic that you chose to share with your readers as well as for the books thoroughness and original approach.
I consider involvement in our future highly important and valuable. Most of us are stuck in day-to-day events and are hard-pressed to anticipate or plan even tomorrows activities, never mind those on the truly distant horizon...
Your sincere concern for fashioning the future of the generations to come has an altruistic dimension of a sort not found here and deserves every sort of praise. You do so in the spirit of those on-target words of the well-known Jewish-Polish educator Janusz Korczak: The one concerned with days, plants wheat; with years, plants trees; with generations, educates people.
I wish you great success in the blessed task that you have undertaken.
Sincerely,
Reuven Rivlin, MP
Chairman of the Israeli Parliament (The Knesset)
Reuven Rivlin, MP
Chairman of the Israeli Parliament (The Knesset)
From David Passig:
The Commission for Future Generations was a kind of gateway to the cosmic continuum that opened for the extraordinary group, headed by Judge Shoham, linking Israeli societys present and past with its future. The opportunity that presented itself enabled us to spin a special, unified web of legislation that would give significance to our existence in this region so ancient and saturated with history and creative flowering. The threads were the laws that the Commission initiated or for which they composed a true behind-the-scenes coalition. But the creation was a sketch of a mosaic of the future in which our children will live and from which they will view us when the time will come...
The book in front of the reader is the key to other similar gateways. One who knows how to read it will be able-if only he so wishes-to open new gates for anything he desires, gates that will enable many cultures to connect their past with their future with clear links and values that they acquire from the eternality of the cosmos.
Prof. David Passig, Futurist, Head of the Graduate Program in Information and Communication Technology and Head of the Virtual Reality Lab, Bar-Ilan University
Acknowledgments and Dedication
First and foremost, I would like to express my thanks to my mother, Hedva Shoham, may her memory be a blessing, and to my father, Yehuda Shoham, may he be granted a long life. In my writings on basic values and openheartedness, and in my writings on our obligation to future generations, my parents stand always before me as the ones who imprinted my soul.
Special thanks go to my wife, Orit, who has walked alongside me on the way these many years. To my children and grandchildren and to the children of the universe, I dedicate this book.
Exceptional thanks are reserved for the late Minister of Justice and Member of the Knesset Yosef Tommy Lapid for successfully looking far ahead and committing to our future. The Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset is entirely the fruit of his vision.
There are many excellent members of the Knesset and government ministers who had a deep understanding of the significance of the Commission for Future Generations and helped to empower it within parliament. To all of them, I extend a big thank you. I will mention the few who stand out in my mind at this moment and ask forgiveness of the many others: Knesset Chair Ruby Reuven Rivlin, a close friend and a man of truth, former Members of the Knesset and Ministers Shaul Yahalom and Eliezer Moodi Sandberg, Ministers Raleb Majadele and Gideon Ezra, Members of the Knesset Omri Sharon, Lea Nass, Dov Khenin, Michael Melchior and Yuri Shtern, ZL.
From the bottom of my heart, I extend thanks to the staff of the Commission for Future Generations, which accompanied our wanderings through the wilderness and helped to establish this unique body: Yonat Marraton, Adv. Nira Lamay, Adv. Vered Kiro, Iris Zur, Aviad Oren, Dotan Simchovitz, Ran Haklai, Dr. Shai Pintov and Lilach Yaish.
A special thanks goes to Professor David Passig, my methodology consultant for all my years of service in the Commission, who inspired this book as well.
I wish also to express my gratitude to all of the people who helped in the writing of this book-to Yonat Marraton, Dotan Simchovitz, Aviad Oren, Ran Haklai, Yael Mei-Ora and Keren Kolan. This book would not have been written if it werent for the exceptional and brilliant Johannes Meier, a close friend and a former member of the board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, who supported, encouraged and, above all, helped me to put my ideas to the test of reality and action.
This is also the opportunity to thank the Bertelsmann Stiftung, its vice-chair, Liz Mohn, and her daughter, Brigitte Mohn, for the support that made possible the unhurried, relaxed writing of this book. I thank as well Mr. Vincent Menken, Ms. Anita Janzohn and Ms. Ingrid Eimer, who make up a wonderful, loving, supportive and esteemed team.
I extend as well my heartfelt appreciation to Hadar Cohen, my faithful assistant, for her assistance in writing, her faith and for being who she is. Much praise is also in order for my supportive assistants, Adv. Meyrav Kenyon and Haya Mosak, and for Rochelle Treister, whose translations succeeded in capturing the feelings and the magic even in the transition to another language.
Last but not least, I wish to thank Barbara Serfozo, the editor of this book, for facilitating a wonderful intellectual and emotional experience with German-Jewish collaboration in letting go of the past and committing to the future. And, at the end of the day, I thank her for writing it down in a professional and readable way.
This book is dedicated to my children, Benny, Moria, Ofra, Ori and Noa,
To my grandchildren, Nitsan, Stav, Yael, Tamar, Smadar Hedva, Eyal,
Inbar and Meshi,
And to the children of the universe,
To my grandchildren, Nitsan, Stav, Yael, Tamar, Smadar Hedva, Eyal,
Inbar and Meshi,
And to the children of the universe,
You who have come from the infinite
And are en route to the infinite,
And are en route to the infinite,
Whose wings are spread wide,
Whose essence is liberty,
love and freedom,
Whose essence is liberty,
love and freedom,
To the children of the universe,
Which awaits you-with its mysteries
As a beloved mother,
Open to enclose,
Yearning to expose its secrets,
Which awaits you-with its mysteries
As a beloved mother,
Open to enclose,
Yearning to expose its secrets,
To the children of the universe,
Who are born whole and full of light,
Loved exactly as you are
Tuned to play your unique melody in the world,
Who are born whole and full of light,
Loved exactly as you are
Tuned to play your unique melody in the world,
To you this book is dedicated,
Fruit of love.
All that I ask,
Fruit of love.
All that I ask,
As sages of generations before me have asked,
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