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On or about 12 January 2005, under the guidance and coordination of OPUS, Listening Posts aimed at providing a snapshot of the societal dynamics of each country at the dawn of 2005 were held in fifteen different countries around the world (Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Finland, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, USA, and Britain - two reports). These were all reported in a similar format (see ‘Britain and the World at the Dawn of 2003’ in Organisational & Social Dynamics 3(1): 165-169), researched and analysed by the authors, to produce this Global Report.
The authors self-defined their task as follows. To research and analyse the National Reports with a view to:
Identifying common themes arising within the thirteen Reports;
To explore relationships between themes and to reduce these down to major or dominant themes;
To collate supporting information from the Reports for analysis of these themes; and
To formulate hypotheses arising there from.
For the sake of brevity this Report will only document the major interrelated themes identified, followed by an analysis and hypotheses regarding each.
For some while now the world has experienced an unprecedented and revolutionary social change that has shown no signs of relenting. Rather, the pace and intensity of change appears to be deepening and intensifying. The nature of the change is so all-encompassing that it