On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
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On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
As futurists we look for signals—small, often weird things. They are usually new technologies, new behaviors, new narratives that don’t fit into the mainstream, but that are often precursors of important transformations. We then try to discern the larger patterns that these signals herald to understand where they might lead ten or more years down t
... See moreexploring alternate realities reveals the interlocking contingencies of the status quo, speculative stories may prove useful not just to those imagining the future, but those who seek to invent it.
Doing this enough, with enough variation, will allow you to merge these acquired skills into your overall posture, in the face of the present, to be more aware and open to signals, and attain your own ‘scenaric stance’. In the words of futurist and co-founder of the Global Business Network, Jay Ogilvy, the scenaric stance is a state of constructive
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