1.3.2 The Problem Space vs The Artifact Space

Currently, society attempts to understand our world by measuring the artifacts we have created: the products, the services, the outputs. Dominant economic architectures measure precisely these things.

But artifacts are merely the frozen byproducts of previous interactions. By focusing exclusively on the artifacts, we are ignoring the underlying substratum of reality: The Problem Space.

If we are to survive, we must shift our diagnostic focus from the artifacts to the actual systems of interacting problematic situations that are motivating us to take action.