Never the environment is the desired one. A city with air pollution, a noise classroom, a hateful boss leading our company, a slow computer, a swimming beach full of jellyfish, crowed streets and politicians of bad reputation are some examples that show a difference between the actual state of the environment and the desired state.
This discrepancy between the actual and ideal environment not only affects the people, but several organizations. A public university with limited state funding, a country with hostile neighbors, a manufacturing company with more efficient competitors, an agricultural industry with businesses exposed to drought and pests, a municipality with tsunami-stricken coastline and a villa with a low frequency of transport are some examples.
Given this universal fact, thinkers of ancient Greece postulated the need to develop tools for narrowing the gap between the desired world and existing, emerging Cybernetics understood as the science of control, whose main mission is to drive the trajectory of systems within certain ranges, avoiding these unwanted states. Several centuries later, some geographers established despite these advanced tools, that human beings would never be able to successfully change the environment to their interests. This group of intellectuals defended their position by stating that a reverse situation, would allow to inhabit the extreme deserts and the poles as an example, a situation at this time not recorded. On the contrary and tacitly accepting some concepts of Cybernetics, other geographers in the early nineteenth century established a more "possibility" attitude, claiming that Man due its capabilities may render the environment, no matter how adverse it is. Forerunner of this doctrine is Lucien Febvre with his seminal works that altered the way of addressing environmental problems, conceiving the environment as an adjustable entity to the interests of society.
Today Possibilism doctrine declares that human beings with their technologies are able to control the environment, disregarding the attitude which set the subordination of men to environment variables, including weather. Survival of Man in the Ice Ages, the farm in deserts and walk on the Moon, are paradigmatic examples of Possibilism. Nevertheless, still there are remaining worldwide challenges such as the efficient management of energy, the conquest of extreme zones, the climate change mitigation and the elimination of food marginality among others. However, each country, municipality, company, family and other forms of human society has its own challenges in the transformation of the surrounding environment, and the Possibilism is an attractive way to drive them.
Journal of Technological Possibilism serves as an international forum for the publication of the latest technologies for changing the undesired estates of environments into others more pleasant than the actual ones. The journal publishes high-standard articles on theories, experiments, projects and other issues regarding Territorial Cybernetics, Human Enhancement, Environmental Negentropy, Enlightened Creations, Disaster Mitigations, Adaptive Production, Management of Lebensraum, Spatio-temporal Localization, Regional Integration, Directed Evolution, Development of Terroirs, Romantics Manufacturing, Outdoor Ergonomics, Food Safety, Mega Engineering, Autarkic Economics, Modern Geopolitics, Geomatics Systems, Ecopoyesis, Terraforming, Smartcities, Cosmic Explorations and Conquista of Extreme Zones.
This journal is therefore, not only a forum where scientists, engineers, philosophers, politician and entrepreneurs can exchange their ideas and experiences; but also serves as an educational channel for students, teachers and any others who would like to learn more about the new trends in this intellectual field.
Despite the diversity of Technological Possibilism, each work submitted must be both innovative and useful. Innovative in inputs and/or processes; and useful with the fair aim of increase the well-being of some society.
