Stranded and siloed value. $4T+ in annual R&D and venture, yet ~80% of IP sits dormant.
Motion without movement. Capital chases incrementalism and quarterly wins, starving long-horizon breakthroughs.
Concentrated control. A few labs and platforms dominate frontier work; communities are locked out.
Fractured systems. No shared language, methods, or horizontal pathways; high-waste, high-risk, high-cost.
| Legacy Operating System | Architecture of the Possible (PS Model) | Shift in Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Optimization | Regeneration | From squeezing efficiency out of fixed systems to designing self-renewing, circular ecosystems. |
| Prediction | Simulation | Replace brittle forecasting with dynamic scenarios and consequence mapping before capital moves. |
| Fail Forward | Reuse | Treat every experiment as data fuel—failure becomes compost, not landfill. |
| Instant Gratification | Long-Horizon Stewardship | Prefer decade-long moonshots and multi-generational payoffs over quick wins. |
| Screen Saturation | IRL Connection | Balance digital with real-world labs and sensory experiences that create cognitive jolts. |
| Attention Economy | Imagination Economy | Reward depth and systemic breakthroughs instead of clicks and micro-dopamine hits. |
| Creativity as Side Note | Imagination as Prime Economic Asset | Fund and manage imagination like energy or infrastructure—a renewable engine of growth. |
| Ethics on Delay | Ethics by Design | Build equity, transparency, and safeguards into every prototype and algorithm from day one. |
| Short-Termism | Return on Future (ROF) | Measure by long-term system value—societal, ecological, and commercial. |
| Fragmentation | Open Commons | Replace walled gardens with traceable, remixable global knowledge networks. |
| Siloed Disciplines | Convergent Practices | Fuse systems thinking, AI, social science, and design thinking into one operating system. |
| Point-in-time Invention | Stackable Breakthroughs | Move from one offs to modular, remixable building blocks that compound. |
