If you want to read about this approach I'll recommend http://www.culturechange.org/auto_free_times.html and
http://www.bioneers.org/ . Note that the first one ended publication over 13 years ago. You may read it in the context of green radicalism of 1997 and realize that it's becoming the dominant culture of 2016.
For innovations you can look towards organizations like http://dignityvillage.org/ ... Literally, a legally recognized homeless community.
If you are expecting to find future cultural innovation coming from elite organizations, you're looking in the wrong place.
The disenfranchised through radical organization is where that occurs.
As it happens it deradicalizes. Things such as not smoking, abstaining from red meat, not attending religious services weekly or not getting married were once radical positions. But as the cultural barriers imposed by radical animosity fell, personal reservations against these habits fell with them and they gave rise to cultural change.
That's why you can't simply elongate the status quo by 20 years in a linear trajectory and get "The Future!"
For innovations you can look towards organizations like http://dignityvillage.org/ ... Literally, a legally recognized homeless community.
If you are expecting to find future cultural innovation coming from elite organizations, you're looking in the wrong place.
The disenfranchised through radical organization is where that occurs.
As it happens it deradicalizes. Things such as not smoking, abstaining from red meat, not attending religious services weekly or not getting married were once radical positions. But as the cultural barriers imposed by radical animosity fell, personal reservations against these habits fell with them and they gave rise to cultural change.
That's why you can't simply elongate the status quo by 20 years in a linear trajectory and get "The Future!"