Influence evalutation and monitoring system

Radivis · February 4, 2015, 8:24pm

Continuing the discussion from How to make a futuristic society:

Actualy we get every day new ideas about possible future socities which seem to be inseperable coupled with a economic and political system. From sharing economy until RBE until interestless economy countless types are suggested. After my analyzes of different ideas Ive realized that there are all one sided and carry about some specific issues of human existence like environment only, social justice only, money based distribution only, technology only, etc. However Ive developed a kind of evaluation and monitoring system which cares about a specific set of balances and metrics which should measure the influences (negative and positive) on the used balances and quantify them. However the balances considered in my sims will be: social balance, environmental balance, technological progress balance, human health balance and human development balance. As soon as developments are one sided the other balances can mostly get destabilized which can destabilize the whole economical and political system. For instance in profit driven systems the envrionmental and social balance are increasingly disturbed, what have to lead to a system destabilization and possible collapse. Societies which focus on social balance and or environmentla balance alone mostly ignore the other mentionen above and so forth, allowing only poor technological progess for instance.

Thats`why when ever measurement of all kind are there proposed they can only be part of a bigger system including all the measurements for restoring the balances which keeps a society stabil as long as possible.

Your approach is interesting. It reminds me of efforts to find economic metrics that consider more different factor than the old GDP metric does. For example there’s the Genuine Progress Indicator by the Center for Sustainable Economy.

Also, there may be parallels to the methodology used in the State of the Future reports made by the Millennium Project.

In any case, I am interested in details about your metrics and how they work together. Have you made any texts or documents that explain your system?

Maximo_Ramallo · February 5, 2015, 6:25am

The problem seems convergence. One can have disparity of ideas and still get to a common conclusion, or even working separate and still achieve all goals. The case for making a great conclusion and acting is to cover the angles proposed but not refusing independent actions.
In short, a wiki kind of solves much of this. I know it may not seem perfect, but its upgradable. As a concept, it give base to other tools to improve further.