Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

Urgent Futures Questionnaire as a way to help my students and my fellow futurists get to their own future truth.

“sensory accommodation.”

In high-income countries, 5 percent of all municipal budgets is spent managing trash.

The voice might say, “In a world that’s pretty much the same as today,” if you’re not trying to stretch your imagination very far.

Coursera, has seventy-seven million learners; edX has over thirty-five million. And user data reveals that two-thirds of them have already completed a bachelor’s degree or higher, while more than half are learning while holding a full-time job. There is clearly an appetite for continuing education—for new skills, new communities, new opportunities.

Positive visions of the future are an essential part of the healing.

actions you can take to increase your power to shape the future.

What if we treated secure access to food and shelter as a universal human right? How could we create a new world of guaranteed meals and guaranteed housing for all?

wanted to feel more powerful in the face of digital inequality, so I decided to change how I approach online teaching. I committed to making “low-bandwidth” versions of my free online Futures Thinking classes available for anyone with an unreliable or slow internet connection.