More recently the concept of leapfrogging is being used in the context of sustainable development for developing countries as a theory of development which may accelerate development by skipping inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones. It is proposed that through leapfrogging developing countries can avoid environmentally harmful stages of development and do not need to follow the polluting development trajectory of industrialized countries. The adoption of solar energy technologies in developing countries are examples of where countries do not repeat the mistakes of highly industrialized countries in creating an energy infrastructure based on fossil fuels, but “jump� directly into the Solar Age.
meaning.. rather than go through a change incrementally/linearly/bureaucratically‌
jump right to where you want to be.
a deep/honest look reveals some major man-made technologies that no longer bode us well. we can now render irrelevant, ie: work, school, money, politics, poverty, war, .. as better options are available/doable. in fact these better technologies have been available for a while, we just keep letting our policies/politics get in the way.
like.. so many examples from ie: africa – Toby Shapshak et al like.. David Graeber on – acting as if we’re already free.
once we go down this path of questioning things.. there’s really kind of no going back. - Aaron Swartz
a problem deep enough as to resonate with all the people today. (ie: all 7 billion people are not currently concerned with poverty issues) a mechanism simple enough as to be accessible/usable by all the people today. (ie: there are no directions/trainings/manuals/languages all people can currently access, except that which is already inside them) a system open enough as to free all the people today as well as ongoingly keep people free. (ie: the system itself needs to rely on all the people re-generating it daily in order for it to sustain)
what we need to do.. we can now do.
jump over all the assumed steps to getting to a betterness. ie: a nother way; rev in reverse; 1 yr to be 5; 1 yr to try commons; ..
this.. from our time of experimentation. the stop/go ness.. of not enough free people.
deep gratitude to all the meanwhile focused folks. freeing me/us up.. mentally at least.. to focus on leapfrogging.
i believe this is a moment in time.. where we can leapfrog to a space 7 billion+ of us crave.
but for that dance to dance/sync it begs jump at once.
perhaps we haven’t yet seen/believed in the natural order of things (ie: stigmergy ness) because nature assumes inclusion. and we haven’t yet let go of our non-inclusive ness. enough. to see how we can dance. all of us. together.
ie: rather than changing (patent et al) laws; getting money out of politics; ed reform;‌. which all perpetuate an unnatural out of step ness..
let’s leap frog to what we want.
to where all the things that are keeping us from us become irrelevant.
:
redefineschool.com/leap-frog/