The Fourth Transition Initiative

"A paradigm shift takes place when a question is asked that cannot be answered within the current paradigm… When a paradigm shift occurs, everything goes back to zero."

Joel A. Barker, futurist

Let’s be lucid for a change: the biggest business opportunity ever is in the fact that near 100% of all venture capital (VC) investments are grossly misguided. We have the data that proves it. In fact, some US $1,800 trillion of global assets, i.e., all there is, asset-wise, are bound to begin vanishing in the near future and likely to be all gone before 2050.

Instead, recent transdisciplinary research demonstrates that the life and death challenge, for the whole of humankind, right now, and thus the unprecedented opportunity is to start evolving very abruptly in technological/psycho-social (aka cultural) terms, away from the brink where it now stands, and complete the shift over a few decades, something that has never been achieved before.

The very large “woolly mammoth-in-the-dark-room” that (nearly) everyone fails to see is Dead State:1 the total energy costs of getting energy is now a whisker away from equating the total energy obtained. When this happens in the near future, everything grinds to a halt – Dead State.

The Dead State threat forces facing the 100% incompatibility between economics and

thermodynamics. Dead State also leads of a whole “herd of woolly mammoths” that 100% of

decision-makers transfixed by the Climate Emergency remain blind to. The emerging data is clear. Ignoring it would be foolish. The Climate Emergency is but one of the sets of consequences of the rampaging herd. To the best of our knowledge, the critical time horizon after which Dead State becomes irretrievable is around 2030.

“It’s the thermodynamics, stupid!”2

The herd of woolly mammoths cannot be addressed within the current technological/psycho-social paradigm. Evolving very abruptly a new paradigm is fundamentally a thermodynamic matter.

Sounds crazy? Yes. Challenges everything you believe in? Yes. Can you afford to miss an unmissable opportunity to change the global game, with ample rewards? No.

From time to time a major paradigm change happens. So, please read on…

The Fourth Transition Initiative’s nGeni Paradigm change: to transform the global game by

redesigning from 1st principles how we access and use energy and moving beyond the use of money in all its forms, all fiat, present cryptocurrencies and Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDCs) included:

• Achieving about three times more energy supply with about half the present total global installed power (electricity, transport, materials mining and production);

• Bringing humankind’s ecological footprint down to 0.5 Earth over some 20 years, from the present 1.75 Earth;

• Addressing squarely the incompatibility of economics and current monetary systems with thermodynamics, as well as with systemics, ecology of Life on Earth (Earth-Life), and anthropology, understood in transdisciplinary terms, i.e., differentiating between money and sustainable wealth: “Money is out, Wealth is in”; and

• Putting us on a different trajectory in terms of how we think, make decisions, do things and organise socially in sustainable, prosperous fashions.

  
  

The Fourth Transition Initiative’s 20-year goal: deploying globally the Cool Planet Internet of

Energy to achieve a Fourth Transition in record time (i.e., coming after the previous three major human transitions, hunting and gathering, agriculture, and industry).

This goal concerns the whole of humankind. We are acutely aware that presently only about 10% of humankind, the wealthiest part, is well supplied with energy (albeit unsustainably). Our goal and strategy extend to the 90% Remainder as well as to building the power capacity required to fix the extensive damages made to Life on Earth over the last, approximately 300 years.

Cool Planet Internet of Energy vision: a 100% solar-based, sustainable, highly profitable, energy and communications infrastructure embodying advanced, finely distributed, artificial intelligence, 100% solar-based, all at substantially lower costs than present and foreseeable energy legacies, so-called renewables and all forms of nuclear – enabling sustainable, prosperous living worldwide and rapidly bringing down atmospheric CO2 equivalent (CO2e, i.e., all GHGs and albedo impacts) to below 350ppm – also introducing transaction means beyond money in all its current forms and modes of decision-making beyond economics.

All by emulating the thermodynamics and systemics of Earth-Life.

Living-in-the-future Team

We are an Irish-based, cutting-edge, R&D energy entrepreneurial Initiative presently comprising four organisations (in Ireland, the Netherlands and Australia) with team members and associates distributed in Ireland, The Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, the USA, Australia, as well as in a number of Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Asian countries. FTI’s main founder has over 55 years of transdisciplinary expertise in engineering, technology development and marketing, thermodynamics, systems dynamics, ecology and anthropology.

Our executive team includes systems-thinking, science, engineering and finance people who have figured out the defining problem of our time: how and why current efforts to combat the Climate Emergency are bound to fail and make matters far worse; and that the much more urgent core problem is the Energy Seneca ending in Dead state in the near term. This led us to find out how to address the Dead State threat (and the Climate Emergency it includes): redesigning how we access and use energy with a patented package of breakthrough solutions and implementing these solutions over 20 years, in a rapidly self-funding, highly profitable way.

This speaks for itself. It has not been easy, with numerous knocks along the way. We persevered. We arrived. Our Initiative leverages a substantial body of prior R&D, with funding in the order of €50 Million. We are intent in catalysing the Fourth Transition in record time and make it highly profitable for all involved.