Seven years ago, way back in the dim dark days of 1998, Tim Adalin of The Voice Club, and Neville Christie of Innovating Cosmos and STEEP Renaissance, created this unscripted dialogue.
When you add multiple dollops of Artificial Intelligence - the most revolutionary innovations of our lifetimes - into the discussion, what they probe is still highly relevant today.
It's about how we all can access the tools and systems to innovate collaboratively, change us, our futures, and the world we live in for the far better. Better for all of us. Creating a we-we-we world. Not just a me-me-me one!
It's about how we all can access the tools and systems to innovate collaboratively, change us, our futures, and the world we live in for the far better. Better for all of us. Creating a we-we-we world. Not just a me-me-me one!
www.nevillechristie.com
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Tsunami-like events continue to reshape our world. Chaotic times like now, are times of huge opportunity for us as families, tribes, communities, and coalitions of SMEs to pull together to revision our futures, and make positive dents in the transforming Universe. So, how about it?
- 01 January 2025, updated 21st March, 2025
- A personal story of where and what Neville Christie is about right now. And how you also might create your new pathways ane become an active player in the Third STEEP Renaissance.
- Three themes
- One - create a brand-spanking new AI-based life-long learning system.
- Two - sponsor a turnkey system that facilitates SMEs forming Dream Teams to innovate collaboratively and develop the Third STEEP Renaissance.
- Three - faciliate content providers producizing their offerings and marketing them through the new system.
- Three transformational eras
- At 83, during my life-time... I've so far experienced three pivotal STEEP Renaissances. That is, social, technological, ecological, economic, political [STEEP] transformation eras. Or Renaissances. First, was the tail end of the rigid, conformist, Second Industrial Revolution- cum-Renaissance. My schoolng and first three University quals were, unfortunately steeped in that era.
- I just survived these three Uni courses, rather than thrived with them. Far, far too much hard work when they were based on rote learning, and only two of our 10-12 intelligences. And they were only 10% relevant to my intelligences, skills and interests.
- Second, the cosmic-shaking Digital Revolution-Renaissance. My two extra quals as Gestalt pyschotherapist were rooted in this era. These learnings and suited me far better. So I thrived, given their 90% relevance. And their highly practical and interactive structure.
- And now, third, the highly radical, emerging, 4th and 5th industral, global-warming, new tech, AI driven, Donald Trump stimulated, Third STEEP Renaissance. This renaissance, happening right now, is turning the corner on the human race. And that has HUGE import.
- For the third STEEP Renaissance invites us to rethink what it means to be human in partnership with AI. And then to rework virtually every aspect of our lives - lifestyle, family, business, relationships, learning.
- All rather STEEP. And exciting! But daunting.
- A prediction
- Which is why...
- A new commitment Always a beggar for adventure, and in my definite non-dotage, I'm deeply committed... along with different Dream Teams ... to assist design, create and enhance our current, rapidly-evolving, DIY, self-learning, self-teaching education systems. In partnership with multiple AI tools. And joint venturing with an existing learning platform with many mllions of students.
- Sounds idealistic and impractical? Idealistic, yes! Impractical, definitely not! As one of our mentors, the famous American cultural anthropologist, Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that has."
What we all now need are new AI-enabled systems, to make sure the best aspects of the Third STEEP Renaissance keep happening! Together!
"Education that's totally humanised."
"You don't need to fix you. But grow you. That fixes you." - a #Nevilleism.
Does this attract, repel, or leave yor cold?
"Mentor, coach, student, life long learner - all in one: The self-empowered learning era."
The new DIY, online, Third STEEP Renaissance, education systems - now being created - are highly personalized, dynamic, and decentralised learning ecosystems They are light years away from earlier rigid institutional models. And early digital world models - which the new ecosystems transform and build on. They empower every one of us to be our own DIY teacher, mentor, coach. And to learn on our own terms, at our own pace, in the context of our real-world situations and applications. Unlike traditional and current education systems - which mainly follow a fixed curriculum and assessment model, the Third STEEP Renaissance Learning System is built on self-direction, customisation, and a seamless integration of knowledge and know-how into daily life, work, personal projects, and personal development. "Each of us owns our own multi-discipline university, think tank, and technology institute, tailored every day to our needs, interests, and wants."
Instead of relying on standardised classrooms and formal degrees, we life-long learners curate our own educational paths - with guidance. We use modular courses, micro-credentials, AI-driven adaptive learning platforms, multi-media, and immersive experiences including virutal reality. Education becomes fluid and demand-driven. So each of us is guided by AI to identify what we need to learn, when we need it, and how best to integrate it into our lives. work, and lesiure. A key part of the new system is it guides us, with templates, stories, and examples to be able to do exactly that. And it is based on our 10-12 intelligences, not just the two of the Second Industrial Revolution - that put many of us into straight jackets. Given all the changes ahead, our early schooling, college and University years, will be structured very differently, and only part-time. With more active immersion in different locations, including work places, cafes, and homes. The Third STEEP Renaissance is a radical era of "just-in-time" knowledge and know-how acquisition. Skills and meta-skills are built and refined in real-time. We use peer networks, mentoring, work-based learning, multi-media and interactive digital environments. Memories are stimulated and reinforced. But rote memorisation is thrown into the rubbish bin.
We learners are no longer just passive recipients of knowledge, know-how, skills. and experience. We are also our own teachers, mentors, and creators, continuously refining our understanding through collaboration and practical application. Among many benefits, the structure and processes of this new sytem, enhances our agency-empowerment, and gestates us as serial entrepreneurs, innovators, agents of transformation, and masters of our lives and futures. Mmm, interesting thought. We emerge as Masters of Holistic Lifeology. Nah. Too corny... Unlearning also vital After all, as the world keeps pivoting on its axis, and our job roles keep changing, unfreezing and unlearning what used to serve us well, and learning what's adaptive and relevant, for this moment and this situation, are of equal importance. AI tutors, immersive simulations, and real-world projects replace traditional textbooks and exams, making learning a more active, hands-on, and exploratory process. Revolution among the professionalsIn this new system, professional educators, trainers, coaches, transition into facilitators, content curators, and community builders rather than gatekeepers of knowledge. Wisdom, more than information, now is enhanced and personalised. Business and service professionals transform into learning architects, facilitating individuals integrate education, know-how and experience, directly into their careers and entrepreneurial pursuits. With AI's assistance, we get our weekly work done in two to three days. And the workplace itself becomes a learning ecosystem, where all team members, including the entrepreneurial founders, daily upskill, and reskill, through AI-enhanced, on-the-job training, and peer-driven wisdom exchanges.
Ultimately, this DIY education model is not just about learning and re-learning. It's also about mastering the art of continuous learning - a vital necessity in a world where change is constant, intelligence is multi-headed and collective, and strategic adaptability is the most valuable skill of all.
- Our Purpose
That last provocative pafragrpah is key to our purpose ..And as of today, 01 January 2025, we're embarking on three key initiatives. we repeat the first one for completeness:
1. Global future-oriented DIY learning platform: Leveraging unique intellectual property developed over 71 active years, multiple parallel careers, and five diverse university qualifications, to partner with a "new development model" learning platform.
Our shared goal is to create a future-oriented DIY, online self-teaching system, using the expertise of different Dream Teams. And calling on the revolutionary advances the evolving range of AI tools.
This systems enables and empowers each of us to be both teacher, mentor, and coach, and life-long learner.
2. Decentralised dream teams innovating collaboratively: Slowly creating a turnkey system, akin to the interconnected nodes of the internet. Where Dream Teams of 6-10 SMEs and industry experts, share resources, create new ventures, and actively contribute to the third STEEP Renaissance.
Six to ten propsering SMEs have all the skills, asssets, resources, networks to form a Dream Team which becomes their own Venture Capitalist, Venture Manager, and collaborating innovators.
3. Enabling workshops and mentoring. Running tailored workshop, programs, and mentoring - for activating and on-boarding individuals, SMEs, and Dream Teams.
3. Enabling workshops and mentoring. Running tailored workshop, programs, and mentoring - for activating and on-boarding individuals, SMEs, and Dream Teams.
The evolution of educationFrom the Second Industrial Revolution's factory-model education to today's digital age, traditional educational systems have typically lagged evolving societal needs.
And these systems have often been a mismatch. Preparing us for the past. Not the future.
Now, our current STEEP global transformation demands adaptive, creativity-driven, lifelong learning ecosystems. Ecosystems that prepare individuals, businesses and institutions, not just to survive. But to thrive and continue throughout their lives to become the very best versions of themselves. In a far better world we create collectively.
Now, our current STEEP global transformation demands adaptive, creativity-driven, lifelong learning ecosystems. Ecosystems that prepare individuals, businesses and institutions, not just to survive. But to thrive and continue throughout their lives to become the very best versions of themselves. In a far better world we create collectively.
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To predict out futures accurately, we do best to envision, and then create, them."
Half of the famous painting depicting a naked Adam reaching out to touch the finger of God. It is a potent symbol of an old world paradigm now shared by only a few.
It is located on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. This iconic fresco, known as "The Creation of Adam," was painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512 as part of a series of panels illustrating stories from the Book of Genesis. It portrays the Biblical scene in which God gives life to Adam, the first man.
A potent symbol of the third STEEP Renaissance as an AI robot reaches out to partner with the humans who created it.
Get on board
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See: ShareRing - a digital identity blockchain-based ecosystem I co-founded in 2018. We now have offices in 6 countries, and over 60 team members.
Why get involved in manifesting the third STEEP Renaissance?
By participating, you'll be at the forefront of a global movement to transform education, business, collaboration, STEEP systems, and lives.
As we move from a credo of me-me-me to a credo of we-we-we, together, we create a more equitable, innovative, and thriving future for all.
Ready to make a difference? • Deep dive into www.steeprenaissance.com• Reach out to explore how we can work together: neville@nevillechristie.com
Ten-year time horizonOf course, personal, business, and organisational transformations are life-time processes. But in the light of the 5th Industrial Revolution, our ongoing global warming epidemic, the massive disruption of AI, and the evolving S.T.E.E.P Renaissance, for now, we adopt a ten-year time horizon.
Already, we have muliple programs and interventions designed, that together we further develop and drip-feed over the decade.
Already, we have muliple programs and interventions designed, that together we further develop and drip-feed over the decade.
What can Neville Christie offer?
I am now 83 going on 18, still highly energetic, motivated, and with most of my marbles still intact. Though I've developed many mechanisms that turn ADHD into a gift, it still slows me down a bit. I've been entrepreneuring and transforming lives and businesses in many, many ways since I was 12. Back then, changed family circumstances lead me to become the bread winner while still at school. This lead me to set up my first three micro-businesses. And then two more the next year. Those micro-businesses, all run while I was at school, and developed during boring lessons, brought in 3-4 times the basic wage. More than enough to support me and the rest ot the family That's 71 solid years of accumulated experience and insight. And I dare say it, as we all enter a New Creative and Wisdom Age, I now have elder statesman wisdom. And am engaged in the strongest, integrative and collaborating growth spurt of my entire life, to date. This is the first asset I freely offer to our community.
Second, my extensive portfolio of transformational intellectual property and know-how – some of it still in my head - is rapidly being dramatized, productized, shared, sold, given away, licensed, and leveraged for the greater good. Hopefully yours is too!
Third, there's a turnkey membership template website under development we can all use - individually and collectively.
Fourth, my vision is both ultra clear - and open to modification by you.
I am now 83 going on 18, still highly energetic, motivated, and with most of my marbles still intact. Though I've developed many mechanisms that turn ADHD into a gift, it still slows me down a bit. I've been entrepreneuring and transforming lives and businesses in many, many ways since I was 12. Back then, changed family circumstances lead me to become the bread winner while still at school. This lead me to set up my first three micro-businesses. And then two more the next year. Those micro-businesses, all run while I was at school, and developed during boring lessons, brought in 3-4 times the basic wage. More than enough to support me and the rest ot the family That's 71 solid years of accumulated experience and insight. And I dare say it, as we all enter a New Creative and Wisdom Age, I now have elder statesman wisdom. And am engaged in the strongest, integrative and collaborating growth spurt of my entire life, to date. This is the first asset I freely offer to our community.
Second, my extensive portfolio of transformational intellectual property and know-how – some of it still in my head - is rapidly being dramatized, productized, shared, sold, given away, licensed, and leveraged for the greater good. Hopefully yours is too!
Third, there's a turnkey membership template website under development we can all use - individually and collectively.
Fourth, my vision is both ultra clear - and open to modification by you.
What value can YOU offer?
That’s what we need to explore.
That’s what we need to explore.
Let’s dialogue.Let’s start a dialogue. No obligation. My home base is Melbourne, Australia. Yours can be anywhere.
English needs to be our shared language. Zoom, etc, our initial form of communication.
Best you email with a block heading in the subject line – something like DENTING THE UNIVERSE TOGETHER – at neville@nevillechristie.com
I’m keen to hear from you.
Neville D Christie
Best you email with a block heading in the subject line – something like DENTING THE UNIVERSE TOGETHER – at neville@nevillechristie.com
I’m keen to hear from you.
Neville D Christie
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