At the very root of the challenges we face is a dying cultural paradigm: Modernity. The modern
era was itself a period of extraordinary human achievement and advance, initiated by a cultural
Renaissance or rebirth. However like any paradigm, modernity casts a long shadow, and
ultimately contained the seeds of its own decline.Sylvie Barbier, Rosie Bell and Rufus Pollock
Read the Second Renaissance whitepaper by Sylvie Barbier, et al.
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