Our complex global village 2035
By Struan Mackenzie
Hi, I’m Jentzen Sarcofogi-Twayman, a neurodivergent project manager from the Sarcofogi School for the Terminally Gifted, and I’d like to talk to you today about what’s happened and why we did what we did.
Context is everything, so let me start at the beginning. Our global village was in the midst of an identity crisis. Wait, no, let me start further back than that, and also explain why we’re calling what’s left of Planet Earth the “global village.” The Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “global village” back in the 1960s to describe the phenomenon of increasing interconnectedness, brought about by media and technologies, that was recasting the world in the image of a global village. The term entered the popular lexicon, and it was from here that a literal reading of this concept made its way into our school’s portfolio system to risk-mitigate, forecast, and problem solve. It’s what we do, what we’ve always done. It just turned out this was the forecasting model we needed to intervene on.
