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Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures
- Futurism has promoted primarily white, male voices for nearly a century and has become a self-limiting element in the world of foresight that quashes competing visions that challenge the status quo. Diversity and Inclusion needs to incorporate not only different knowledge systems including Indigenous worldviews based on collective intelligence, but... See more
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Here is the problem: The future visions that are put out there into the world are either commonplace, boring, meaningless, (corporate) agenda-driven, uninspiring, or all of the above together.
The reason for that, in my opinion, is that our minds are stuck in old ideologies, old systems, and old narratives, which prevents us from thinking outside th
... See morefrom Unframing the Future by Thomas Klaffke
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At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagining possibilities of what the future could be. And if there was ever a time we needed such imagination, it is today.
from The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by walkerart.org
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- The futurists of the world struggle to convey positive and optimistic scenarios that encourage humane action.
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It is a fallacy to plan for ‘the future’ (singular). We need to be prepared for multiple futures (plural) and build into our strategies a flexibility that allows us to move resilient from the present moment towards the future. Being aware of the different paths the future might take, leads to more realistic and flexible strategies that will be more
... See morefrom Designing the Future Using Science Fiction by Marjolein Pijnappels
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- a good futurist spends a lot of time trying to decipher the present and to try to see it through the mask of present-day biases.
I sometimes think of “seeing the present” as trying on alien eyes; looking at the world as if I were an alien from another planet.
Trying to see beyond the immediate cycles of news is a challenge, because rather than being... See morefrom How to Future by Kevin Kelly
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