What is the Future?
Contemporary scholars such as Sohail Inayatullah, Roberto Poli and Riel Miller emphasize the importance of futures literacy, which is the capacity to imagine, critique and reframe multiple futures. Futures literacy expands our ability to navigate uncertainty and enables people to generate new meanings rather than simply extrapolate from current tre... See more
Practical imagination
We can’t predict the future, but we can explore
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Exploratory economics would combine the insights of the discipline with the use of creative tools to design possible ways of organising firms, sectors, trading and investment in the future. Exploratory sociology would look at new ways of organising care, friendship or families. Exploratory urban geography might look at how we could organise cities,
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It’s better to prefer incompleteness over completeness; capacious imagination instead of futures that are too specific or neat; and experimentation and exploration over visions and blueprints. I’m sceptical of overly coherent utopias or the belief that societies follow simple logics. Instead, I see the work of imagination (and the life of real soci
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the climate crisis post-pandemic trauma social justice movements increasing economic inequality social and political tensions caused by refugee crises and mass migration automation of work decreasing birthrates in Western countries and a “youth boom” in Africa shifting religious majorities and increasing theological diversity the global switch to r
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