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The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
Nevertheless, nary a month passes by that we don’t get yet another bright and shiny foresight methodology that promises to granularize information and atomize data so that we can finally solve the pesky problems plaguing the planet that were caused by — you guessed it — our extrapolative, exponential, and extractive practices of granularizing and... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
On the other end of the spectrum is where we experience the “Pull of the Future,” or the intentional thinking and acting around aspirational and transformational futures. As you might have imagined, this part of the spectrum aligns with the emerging novelty and anticipatory imagination of “Ontological Unpredictability.” Here — where the very nature... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
Thinking in utopia or dystopia is too black and white. We need to consider transtopian matrices. You know that Tim Urban graph that shows a single line going to the right, forking out into more and more possibilities in the future? While we can’t predict precisely what society will be like in 2045, we can map the categories, questions, and
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