Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT IS HAPPENING? THE THIRD WAVE Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS NEW HISTORICAL ERA - WAVES ABILITY TO MANIPULATE MATTER TECHNOLOGICAL WAVES INFORMATION INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE GATHER-HUNT … 8000 BC Alvin Toffler: “The Third Wave.” Thomas Kuhn: “Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Schumpeter (wavelets of industrial age) 1700 2000 TIME Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GLOBALISATION - DEEP IMPLICATIONS MODERN ERA GLOBALISED AGE SHRINKING WORLD ECOLOGY - DEPLETION NO IMPACT HUGE IMPACT - DEGRADATION - DISRUPTION - DISASTER HUMAN HUGE SMALL TIME SLOW PRIVACY BROAD - TOP DOWN FAST NARROW - LISTS + GATES - INSTANT INFO - INTIMATE CONTACT - BOTTOM UP - TAGS + GRIDS - PERVASIVE+INTRUSIVE LIQUID WORLD ECONOMY SOCIETIES TIME TECHN. INFR. POWER SECURITY STATE CENTRED ROOTED SEGMENTED m-f 9-5 STATE + LOCAL STATE BORDERS GLOBAL TRANSNATIONAL FLOATING CONTINUOUS 24/7 GLOBAL NETWORKS STATE + NEW ACTORS FLOWS GLOBALISATION - NEW SECURITY AGENDA MODERN ERA Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GLOBALISED AGE NEW POLITICAL FAULT LINES HORISONTAL PEER COMPETITION VERTICAL ASYMMETRIC TENSIONS BROADER THREATS ONE-DIMENSIONAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL - PEER POLITICS - ASYMMETRIC POLITICS - NEW VULNERABILITIES - ECONOMIC BASE - TECHNOLOGICAL BASE - RISING ECOLOGICAL CRISIS Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT IS SECURITY? WHAT IS SECURITY? FUNCTIONING VITAL LIFE SYSTEMS Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT IS SECURITY? WHAT IS ’FUNCTIONING’? Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT IS FUNCTIONING? A DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN STABILITY AND MOVEMENT EXPLOSION THREAT ANALYSIS REST NOURISHING SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINED SECURITY SAFETY ACTION RISK VIGOUR STAGNATION Brodsky: ”It goes stupid.” David Eberhard: ”Trygghetsnarkomaner.” EXCITEMENT WHAT IS SECURITY? Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT IS ’CATASTROPHE’? Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS TRAGEDY versus CATASTROPHE IT IS NOT IT IS NUMBERS OF DEAD VITAL SYSTEM CRASH SORROW, SHOCK SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE TRANSIENT, INTANGIBLE LONG-TERM, CONCRETE SAD, BUT LIFE GOES ON NO WATER, NO FOOD TRAGEDY CATASTROPHE Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS DEATH 2001 - WHAT HOMINIDS DIE OF ESTIMATED GLOBAL DEATHS 2001 3,013 Selected Categories 26.3% 8,953 2,866 5.1% 2,001 3.5% 1,644 2.9% 1,318 2.3% 1,124 2.0% 3,947 7.0% 5.3% 477 0.8% 32 % 12 % 9% 3% 40 % 58.5% 7% 6% 8% 6% 7% 13 % 15 % 17 % 3% 23 % 53 % 19 % 14 % 13 % 16 % 12 % 10 % 9% 12 % 14 % 8% 30 % 5% 10 % 6% 5% 4% 6% 4% 8% 9% 7% 4% 4% 26 % 7% 25 % 27 % 26 % 30 % 12 % 14 % 10 % 16 % 20 % 14 % 7% 17 % 22 % 21 % 16 % 23 % 23 % 32 % 30 % 21 % 28 % 15 % 9% 26 % 655,476 837,967 493,091 WORLD Total Communicable Diseases Big Five HIV / AIDS Diarrhoeal Tuberculosis Childhood diseases Malaria Respiratory Infections Maternal and Perinatal conditions Nutritional Deficiencies Non-communicable Illnesses Big Three Cancers Cardiovascular Respiratory Accidents Traffic accidents Intentional Injuries Self-inflicted Violence War TOTAL DEATHS TOTAL POPULATION (thousands) 14,884 33,077 27,260 7,115 16,585 3,560 3,508 1,194 1,594 849 500 230 56,553 6,122,210 The World Health Report 2002. WHO, Geneva. pp. 186-191. 12.6% 29.3% 6.3% 6.2% 2.1% 2.8% 1.5% 0.9% 0.4% 100.0% AFRICA AMERICAS E. MEDIT EUROPE SE ASIA 55 % 77 % 35 % 20 % 53 % 86 % 26 % 27 % 2% 3% 4% 3% 1% 0% 6% 6% 9% 2% 16 % 8% 15 % 5% 10 % 13 % 1% 1% 1% 5% 1% 0% 8% 2% 27 % 16 % 40 % 43 % 27 % 8% 35 % 39 % W PACIFIC 6% 2% 4% 21 % 4% 1% 15 % 12 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 5 % 100 % 26 % 28 % 31 % 23 % 44 % 23 % 24 % 24 % 37 % 13 % 1% 21 % 874,178 1,559,810 1,701,689 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 99 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % DEATH: TRAGEDY versus CATASTROPHE Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS NUMBER OF DEATHS 58% ILLNESS (BIG THREE) (Old Age) 50% 40% BIOTERROR 30% 26% DISEASE (BIG FIVE) (AIDS, Malaria...) PANDEMIC 20% 10% RADIATION ACCIDENT 2% ACCIDENTS 0.4% WAR CYBERCRASH GLOBAL SYSTEMIC DISRUPTION WHAT IS SECURITY? Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT ARE OUR VITAL LIFE SYSTEMS? Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT IS SECURITY? VITAL LIFE SYSTEMS PEER POLITICS ECONOMIC BASE SOCIAL FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURAL STABILITY TECHNOL BASE SPIRIT ECOLOGICAL NATURAL RESOURCES EABITAT Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS WHAT ARE THE THREATS? SIX GENERIC THREATS = BROADER MISSION SPECTRUM STUXNET 2010, NORWAY 2010, GEORGIA 2008, ESTONIA 2007 DELIBERATE NATO 1999 EXTERNAL TENSIONS DAMAGE PEER POLITICS ECONOMIC BASE POLITICAL INHERENT STRAIN Y2K WALL STREET 2009 FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURAL STABILITY TECHNOL BASE DISASTER (unnatural) DOMESTIC TENSIONS ECOSTRESS DESERTIFICATION FOOD PRICES ECOSTRESS ECOLOGICAL NATURAL RESOURCES DEPLETION DEGRADATION HABITAT OIL PRICES SOLAR STORMS COST OF DISASTERS DISRUPTION Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS THREE DIMENSIONS OF SECURITY SYNERGY - TRANSDIMENSIONAL RICOCHETS = INTEGRATED RESPONSE EXTERNAL HARMONY ECONOMIC BASE POLITICAL FUNCTIONAL DOMESTIC HARMONY TECHNOL BASE ECOLOGICAL NATURAL RESOURCES ECOSYSTEM PANDEMIC Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS EPISTEMOLOGY YESTERDAYS SECURITY HORIZON ONE DIMENSION - One Dot EXTERNAL HARMONY POLITICAL Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS TODAY’S SECURITY HORIZON THREE DIMENSIONS - Six Dots - Ten Flashpoints - ALL INTERACTING EXTERNAL TENSIONS DELIBERATE ATTACK EXTERNAL HARMONY ECONOMIC BASE POLITICAL FUNCTIONAL DOMESTIC HARMONY INHERENT STRAIN FAST HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVETECHNOL No Tunnel Vision BASE INFECTIOUS + DISASTER SYNTHETIC SYNERGISTIC (unnatural) ANALYSIS LETHAL Awareness of Lateral Interaction DOMESTIC TENSIONS ECOSTRESS ECOSTRESS ECOLOGICAL NATURAL RESOURCES DEPLETION DEGRADATION ECOSYSTEM DISRUPTION Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS TODAY’S SECURITY HORIZON THREE DIMENSIONS - Six Dots - Ten Flashpoints - ALL INTERACTING EXTERNAL TENSIONS DELIBERATE ATTACK EXTERNAL HARMONY ECONOMIC BASE POLITICAL FUNCTIONAL DOMESTIC HARMONY UNCERTAINTY INHERENT STRAIN TECHNOL BASE PLAN DISASTER (unnatural) DOMESTIC TENSIONS + AGILITY + RESILIENCE ECOSTRESS ECOSTRESS ECOLOGICAL NATURAL RESOURCES DEPLETION DEGRADATION ECOSYSTEM DISRUPTION THREAT ANALYSIS - DEATH vs. SEVERITY Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS SEVERITY EXISTENCE VITAL COMFORT MORAL REMOTE POSSIBLE LIKELY HAPPENING LIKELIHOOD THREAT ANALYSIS - DEATH vs. SEVERITY Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS SEVERITY EXISTENCE VITAL COMFORT MORAL REMOTE POSSIBLE LIKELY HAPPENING LIKELIHOOD Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES visibility KNOWN THREATS FORECAST + COUNTER SURPRISING THREATS REACT + DODGE UNKNOWN THREATS SURVIVE + RECOVER PLAN AND MANIPULATE SHIELD: DETER, DEFEND TRANSFORM: NEUTRALISE, CONVERT AGILITY SPEED, FLEXIBILITY RESILIENCE ELASTIC, ROBUST, REPAIRING Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES ANALYSIS PRACTICE YESTERDAY TODAY NARROW REDUCTIONIST BROAD SYNTHETIC LINEAR CAUSALITY PROBABILITY LATERAL SYNERGY POSSIBILITY RIGID AGILE PLANNING CLOSED SPECIALIST LINEAR HIERARCHY BARRIERS AND CONTROL IMPROVISATION OPEN GENERALIST INTERACTING NETWORKS RESILIENCE AND DANCE THERE IS NO SAFE SPACE Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS THE FUTURE? DEEP GLOBAL TRENDS TO 2030 DEEP TRENDS Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS ZERO-SUM RELATIONS POWER POLITICS PEER WARS FUNCTIONAL FADING GLOBAL INTEGRATION ENTRENCHED ’WEST’ NEW ALIENATED MULTIPOLARITY EXTERNAL ACTORS GLOBAL HARMONY WESTPHALIA SOCIAL TRANS MIGRATION TRANS REVOLUTION TRANS CRIME STUXNET 2010 NORWAY 2010, GEORGIA 2008 ESTONIA 2007 ECONOMIC MORE NATO 1999 ANTAGONISTIC RISING ’EAST’ 20% POOR 20% RICH GET RICHER DEEP 20% POOR GET POORER DOMESTIC GLOBAL TURBULENCE STAGNATE HARMONY 40% MISERABLE CLASS TENSIONS SINK DEEPER BASE MONEY INHERENT MOREMORE DEPENDENT FUNCTIONAL POWER MORE VULNERABLE Y2K WALL STR 2009 TECHNOL GREATERMISCHIEF BASE TECHNOLOGY RISING NATURAL NATURAL ECOSTRESS ECOSTRESS RESOURCESECOLOGICAL CRISIS RESOURCES SCARCITY - FOOD PRICES, WATER TURBULENCE - DESERTIFICATION ECOLOGICAL NATURAL RESOURCES DEPLETION DISRUPTION ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION SCARCITY – OIL PRICES TURBULENCE - DISRUPTION, COST OUTCOMES 2030 Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GOOD BAD UGLY ARCTIC? SOCIAL DIMENSION PP -?? RUSSIA hate EUROPE? stress WEST? TP -2030 zero sum GLOBAL? PP -2010 PP -2030 toleration MP -2010 MP -2030 harmony TP -2010 non-zero sum FUNCTIONAL DIMENSION comfort 2010 wealth power STAGNATE ? CRASHmisery ? poverty helpless ECOLOGICAL DIMENSION 2010 plenty stable 2030? 2030? scarcity unstable MP – Multipolarity PP – Power politics TP – Transnational Problems (organised crime, refugees & migration, revolutionary terrorism) Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS NEW HISTORICAL ERA - WAVES ABILITY TO MANIPULATE MATTER INFORMATION INDUSTRY ? AGRICULTURE ? GATHER-HUNT … 8000 BC 1700 2000 TIME Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS FLOW SECURITY FIVE KEY COMPONENTS GLOBALISING FLOW SYSTEM BASE ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION HUMAN SOCIETIES Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GLOBALISING FLOW SYSTEM YESTERDAY’S ALPHA ACTORS WESTPHALIAN STATE Power - Economic - Scientific - Political - Military Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GLOBALISING FLOW SYSTEM TODAY’S ALPHA ACTORS TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS Power - Economic - Scientific POSTMODERN STATES Power - Political - Military Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GLOBALISING FLOW SYSTEM ENABLERS 1 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY - ILS – Logistic infrastructure - ITS - Transportation platforms - Goods - People - Information Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GLOBALISING FLOW SYSTEM ENABLERS 2 TRANSFORMATION PLATFORMS - Alpha Cities - Other Transformation Nodes Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS INTIMATELY INTERLINKED BASE Ecology Societies – Resources and Stage – Contribute, Consume or Attack ACTORS States TNC – Regulate and Enforce – Generate and Drive ENABLERS Transporters – Flow Cities - Platforms that Transform and Multiply Value Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS GLOBALISING FLOW SYSTEM PANDEMIC EARTHQUAKE STORMS DESIGN MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT THREATS SOCIAL FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGICAL POLITICAL CHALLENGE REGIONAL INSTABILITY SECURITY OF SUPPLY FRICTION - Piracy - Crime - Extortion TRANSNATIONAL NOKIA 1 HEADQUARTERS, 282 EMPLOYEES 31 R&D CENTRES, 16 COUNTRIES, 37,000 EMPLOYEES 18 FACTORIES, 10 COUNTRIES, 84,000 EMPLOYEES Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS TRANSNATIONAL NOKIA 1 HEADQUARTERS, 282 EMPLOYEES 31 R&D CENTRES, 16 COUNTRIES, 37,000 EMPLOYEES 18 FACTORIES, 10 COUNTRIES, 84,000 EMPLOYEES 160 COUNTRY MARKETS, 1.5 BILLION CUSTOMERS Tomas Ries – ISS / FHS
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