The Future Mundane - Core77

Foresight supports designing for tomorrow, not today. Designing with the future and emerging issues in mind can lead to revolutionary product and service offerings today- if you dare! With the rate of change we are collectively experiencing, if you design for today, you run the risk of the products and services being obsolete before they hit the sh... See more

It is often said that most futurists are really predicting the present. It turns out that the present is very hard to see. First the present is obscured by the noise of 8 billion lives looking for attention, and it is overwhelmed by the flashy glitter of the new. Mostly the now is obscured by our deep assumptions and prejudices which makes it very ... See more

to be helpful futuring, your imagination should be disciplined.

Ideally your imagined future would have a history. Whatever happens has to happen one-step at a time. So for every new technology or cultural innovation there needs to be versions that are economically viable one step at a time.

the game for the futurist is to try and imagine what led to... See more

We’re at the dawn of something big and unknown. New technologies are shaping the future in ways we haven’t even thought of yet. Some of them will have extraordinary benefits, while others, through unforeseen capabilities or even sinister intentions, may have unwanted consequences. But as designers, it’s up to us to explore them early, dive into th

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