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Affective Foresight
future that it portrays. Neither magicians nor psychics
Phil Balagtas • Making Futures Work: Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation, and Strategy
People understand things through narratives, including the future. Everyone is the science fiction writer of their own life. When hoping for a good life, and thinking about what might bring that about, we are utopian writers; when fearful that bad things will happen, we are dystopian writers.
Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight
Projection into the Future
Frederick E. Dodson • Parallel Universes of Self
People are creating documentation of what they would do or what they would feel or think. We study them as if they are real people already doing the things they imagine. What are the patterns in what they’re saying? What do they seem to be most excited about or most worried about?
Antonia Violante • The Craft of Forecasting Our Possible Futures: A Conversation with Jane McGonigal
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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