Star Trek 50th Anniversary Convention is public launch of Phase 1 of The World Of Our Dreams
The World Of Our Dreams is a not-for-profit, 501c3 organization under development whose purpose will be to teach people, businesses & governments how to bring about a future of peace and prosperity for all, where humanity is primarily engaged in exploring new worlds.
Buckminster Fuller envisioned this future in his 1968 book, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.
Background:
"When I first read Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth in 1979, I learned that all of human society was set up based on the belief that "there isn't enough for everyone" ... and that scientific advancement had made that belief obsolete starting in the mid-1960s. This spectacularly important landmark had gone largely unreported, despite the best efforts of Buckminster Fuller, his friend Gerard Piel (the founder of Scientific American), and others to get the word out. I couldn't believe this wasn't front page news!", says Steve Brant, Project Founder & Chief Designer of The World Of Our Dreams.
"Realizing that the root cause of war - scarcity of resources - the fundamental reason people started fighting in the beginning of human history was obsolete awakened my childhood dream of a world at peace. That dream had begun with a class trip to the UN that I took at age seven. Twenty-one years later, I suddenly saw that this dream could become a reality! And so began a many years long quest to find a way to help make this happen."
"In these increasingly challenging times, I am more determined than ever to contribute my years of experience in the field of sustainable international development - what sustainability pioneers William McDonough and Michael Braungart call The Next Industrial Revolution - to the public dialogue. But I'm going to go beyond where their work goes."
"In addition to the challenge of how humanity relates to Mother Earth, The World Of Our Dreams will address the challenge of how humanity relates to itself! I believe the vision of Star Trek - of humanity using its energies and resources to boldly explore new worlds because it is finally at peace with itself - can be a huge help in this process. And I am working to get the necessary permissions from CBS Consumer Products, so Star Trek can be part of the educational programs The World Of Our Dreams offers in some appropriate way."
"Speculative fiction has helped power the imagination of people throughout history, encouraging some to pursue the achievement of those fictional realities for real. In my 2012 presentation on achieving a world beyond war, I mentioned that the entertainment industry has helped teach the public new knowledge a number of times. The First Motion Picture Unit (led by Jack Warner of Warner Bros.), Walt Disney's partnership with Wernher von Braun, and the SciFi Channel's Visions for Tomorrow project are just some of the times when Hollywood has helped make the world a better place."
"With The World Of Our Dreams, I intend to follow in that tradition... turning the public away from today's hate and fear-based sociopolitical economic dynamic to one based on optimism and "love thy neighbor"... with Hollywood's help. In a world where abundance has replaced scarcity as the foundation of how we think, that new direction is possible!"
"The World Of Our Dreams will ultimately help catalyze the design of a new system of human relations at the local, state, national, and international level... chart a course for the adoption of that new design... and be a leader in seeing that that new design is implemented."
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Steve Brant will be available for interviews all three days of the upcoming Star Trek: Mission New York convention at the Javits Convention Center, September 2-4.
The World Of Our Dreams will be at Booth 344 in the Exhibit Hall. Interviews can also be scheduled both prior to and after the convention. Contact Steve here.
Biography of Steve Brant:
1955 - Born in NYC
1962 - Class trip to the UN
1966 - 1969 - Watched Star Trek: The Original Series. (All future series and films)
1976 - Graduated Cum Laude with B.S. in Civil Engineering from UMass - Amherst
1976 - Began working for the US Army Corps of Engineers
1979 - 1984 - Studied Buckminster Fuller's work. Met Bucky in 1983.
1980 - Founding board member, New York CitiWorks, Inc a 501c3 organization
1985 - Began working for the NYC Department of Transportation
1991 - 1999 - Studied W. Edwards Deming's management philosophy. Corresponded with him.
1995 - 2009 - Studied Russell L. Ackoff's management philosophy. Mentored by Russ for 10 yrs
1992 - 1994 - Led NYC Community Quality Council Project
1992 - 1993 - Team member NYState Quality Council Project
1993 - 1996 - Participant, President's Council on Sustainable Development
1995 - UN at 50 exhibitor, Washington, DC
1996 - Launched Trimtab Management Systems
1997 - Explored creation of Star Trek-themed training & development project with Viacom
1999 - Organized panel on advanced international development principle, International Development Conference (IDC) Global Meeting of Generations, Washington, DC
1999 - Star Trek-themed scenario planning workshop (experimental) at Star Trek: The Experience
2002 - UN Global Compact Performance Improvement Model team
2004 - Founding board member, Keystone Alliance for Performance Excellence
2005 - Began blogging on The Huffington Post
2006 - International development conversation with Joseph Stiglitz, Tom Friedman, Ted Koppel
2007 - Future of the UN Global Compact/CSR movement presentation, Baruch College, NYC
2008 - "Capitalism Is Dead. Now What Do We Do?" published in The Huffington Post
2009 - Memorial essay to Russ Ackoff published in The Huffington Post
2010 - Pro-Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) essay in The Huffington Post
2011 - Interviewed by William Shatner for his "Get a Life!" documentary about Star Trek fans
2011 - 100Year StarShip project proposal team member
2012 - 100Year StarShip symposium presentation
2016 - The World Of Our Dreams - Project Founder & Chief Designer
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