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Affective Foresight
Ideally, the future of humanity is about capturing the upside of emotion while minimizing the downsides. AI is a perfect instrument to help us achieve this balance.
Scott Belsky • Joyspan, Emotional AI Bumpers, Persona Designers, & More Wild Concepts Bound to Become Commonplace Plus Where High-Tech Entertainment Brings Us
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a polyvagal futures literacy offers foresight practitioners and learners a powerful framework for meeting the future with agency, hope, and inner resourcefulness in the face of its complexity.
Kenneth Wee • Exploring a Polyvagal Futures Literacy * Journal of Futures Studies
In general, foresight is about opening your mind in novel ways, helping you to make connections that weren’t available before. We are not limited to right and wrong or stand-alone answers here, thus enabling breakthrough creative ideas and thoughts.
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In relation to DAs
- Foresight has an action problem (too quick to action before considering alternatives, possibilities and consequences due to our preference for short-termism, quick wins, productivity, efficiency, etc.)
- Foresight has a “past”problem (assuming that the future will always mirror the past and present, when both the nature of the future is changing and o
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
A technologically advanced culture cannot flourish without getting better at anticipating the future. That’s why science fiction matters. That’s why scenario planning matters. That’s why complex software simulations that enable us to forecast things like climate change on the scale of decades matter.
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Steven Johnson • Ways of Flourishing
This way he was able to address key risks/pitfalls early on – humans have a unique ability to see into the future given the right perspective
Kyle Tibbitts • #19 — John Andrew Entwistle — Traveling into the future
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We need to be aware that we use a kind of ‘everyday foresight’ in order to conduct our daily lives, based on certain assumptions, such as public transport being reliable, travel bookings being trustworthy, and weather forecasts being mostly right.
Jennifer M. Gidley • The Future: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
When the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.