3 Benefits of Futures Thinking

3 Benefits of Futures Thinking — Futures Platform

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Foresight supports designing for tomorrow, not today. Designing with the future and emerging issues in mind can lead to revolutionary product and service offerings today- if you dare! With the rate of change we are collectively experiencing, if you design for today, you run the risk of the products and services being obsolete before they hit the sh... See more
Jenna Guarascio added
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“We think creatively (not predictively) about the future in order to decide what to do now in order to make possible different futures. There is no reason to be ‘future-oriented’ other than to try to change things, from now on . This means that you must be very careful when trying to ‘future’ to ensure that you are not unwittingly reproducing impl
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from The Future Thinker’s Dilemma by TFSX
Keely Adler added
At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagining possibilities of what the future could be. And if there was ever a time we needed such imagination, it is today.
from The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by walkerart.org
Keely Adler added