Omission biases and imagination deficits
Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more
Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
Successful introspection of a kind that leads to innovation involves a good deal of bravery because of how much of what we sincerely like, want or are opposed to differs from what society defines as normal. Prevailing assumptions about procedures and products often contain ideas and stock responses that have drifted very far from underlying truths,
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we don’t give imagination enough time.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
there are plenty of other people—usually outside universities—happy to speculate and invent, but often without the depth of knowledge needed to do this well, or in overly generic ‘futures’ fields that sacrifice depth for breadth. As a result, the analysts and the dreamers have lived in separate worlds, and we lack even a name for people who straddl
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