Reimagining Tomorrow
In Search of Wisdom for Humanity's Future
Making Sense of an Evolving World
This site serves as a platform for ideas aimed at addressing humanity’s greatest challenges. It brings together my reflections on philosophy, science, spirituality, and project management, integrating personal experiences, research, and faith. Here, you will find blog posts, articles, papers, and curated book recommendations that explore new ways of thinking about our world.
With a focus on societal transformation, each item is cross-referenced to connect ideas across diverse perspectives, encouraging thoughtful exploration and discovery.
My recent work is centred around two core pillars: ideas for my upcoming book, Reimagining Tomorrow, and material prepared for my U3A group on Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality. These projects explore how humanity can address the interconnected challenges of our time by integrating insights from diverse fields. To support this focus, I’ve created two additional perspectives—Reimagining Tomorrow and Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality—to gather and organize related materials, encouraging deeper exploration and reflection on these crucial themes.
Click on one of the buttons below for access to articles, presentations and other resources related to these pillars.
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Terry Cooke-Davies
Folkestone, September 2024
Terry is proud to be a member of the Rotary Club of Folkestone.
A Broad Range of Materials
Cross referenced by Perspective, by Issue of Interest, and by Academic Subject,.
The Three Original Perspectives
When this site was first created in 2020, these were the three original ‘Perspectives” that this site’s materials represented.
Spirituality
Many people, especially in the Western world, are struggling to relate what they have traditionally learned about their Christian faith in church to the reality of the world we all live in. Yet advances in knowledge about what it means to be human in an expanding universe open the door to vast new possibilities.
In this theme you will find articles concerned with current issues facing people who want to understand the relevance of Jesus and the Bible for life in the twenty-first century. Many of the articles are suitable for small group discussion. It also contains links to books summarizing contemporary and fundamental research that illuminates the theme.
Life Today
It is hard to keep up with the amazing discoveries that are being made every day, that influence our experience of life. Homo Sapiens has been hugely successful as a species. We may have evolved from other animals, but with the development of self-aware consciousness, we’ve transcended the limits of purely biological evolution. Through our unique abilities we’ve created the Anthropocene epoch on earth, full of amazing technological and artistic achievements. But in the process, we’ve brought about a crisis that threatens the planet with serious damage and our own species with extinction.
In this theme you will find articles and posts about issues that are relevant to everyone who thinks about what it means to be human. It also contains links to books summarizing contemporary and fundamental research that illuminates the theme.
Management
Managing is the art and craft of getting things done through people. Whether you are managing an organization, a programme or a project you will constantly encounter situations that you have never encountered before. And there is a wealth of wisdom available both from formal research, and from anecdotes and stories from successful managers and leaders. Good management achieves amazing results, and leaves people feeling proud of those achievements. Bad management robs people of energy, satisfaction, productivity and, in some cases, their jobs. It has a high social and economic costs.
In this theme you will find articles concerned mainly with matters of ‘process’ and ‘facilitative management’. Especially inter-personal process and the means of harnessing people’s energy and resources in the service of the right tasks. The emphasis is on management as much as a process of learning together as much as seeking to control actions and events. It also contains links to books summarizing contemporary and fundamental research that illuminates the theme. My research interest in implementing corporate strategy through portfolios of programmes and projects arose from this focus on process.
How This Site Works
Every item on the site is cross-referenced in three ways: perspectives, subject categories, and issues of interest. Simply click on a word in the grey bar which sits at the bottom of every page, and you will see all other items on the website that are cross-referenced to it. Try it out in the bar below.
- “Perspectives” are described above. They are the represent viewpoints from which life can be examined. The three represented on this site are the ones through which I have examined my life.
- “Subject categories” are an academic classification of knowledge by subject area, as accepted for the division of faculties and departments in Universities.
- “Issues of Interest” are problematical topics of concern to groups of people that are of interest from one or more perspectives and on which research in one or more subjects sheds light
Different kinds of items are accessible on this website:
- Reference Books and papers, which provide background to an issue or are cited in specific posts. An example is “Aping Mankind“. Where the books are available on Kindle, the “Read More” button links to its published Goodreads extract.
- Blog posts on “Issues of Interest” are short articles written for this web site that are designed to make the reader think. An example is “Projects: exercises in shared intentionality“.
- Bible studies are courses of study written for small groups on topics of interest to Christians who seek to relate the tenets of their faith to advances in knowledge in the world today. An example is the series of studies about the Book of Revelation.
- Research Papers and other publications are materials that I have written and published elsewhere in journals, books, magazines, or conference proceedings. An example is “The Real Success Factors on Projects“.
- Sermons consist of the text of sermons that I preached, or notes from which I preached my sermons. An example is “God of the Poor“.
