Dialogue in socio-cultural evolution: Past, present, future

Abstract

In this closing chapter, first, we briefly review the purpose of this work and highlight the learning experience offered in the chapters of this compendium. Then, we follow the path of the unfolding evolution and explore the function of dialogue conversation in the history of human and societal evolution. This path leads up to the present. Today, we face a critical evolutionary predicament, as well as, the first opportunity in the life journey of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, to enter into the evolutionary design space, create evolutionary design communities, and use the power of dialogue in engaging in the deign of our future. © 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.