Futures thinking
Imagination
Futures thinking
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In recent years, neuroimaging has provided evidence to suggest that imagining the future relies on much of the same neural machinery as remembering the past. One hypothesis that such findings motivate is that memories must be reactivated in order to extract the information needed to “flesh out” detailed simulations. Indeed, if simulations involve... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
Research has found that strategic foresight has a significant impact on an organisation’s bottom line – those who think about the future could be looking at up to 33% higher profitability and 200% higher market capitalisation within their industries.
Willow Pryor • 3 Benefits of Futures Thinking — Futures Platform
The relationship between utopia and futurescape is thus cardinal because the former serves to host scenarios of futures, while futurescapes are the projects that give consistency and form to utopias.
From Utopia to Futurescapes: Futures Literacy for Next Generations of Architects and Designers * Journal of Futures Studies
Embracing Virtually: How Digital Interactions Mirror the Warmth of Real-World Hugs - Neuroscience News
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Novel technologies like artificial intelligence or neurotechnology are expected to have social implications in the future. As they are in the early stages of development, it is challenging to identify potential negative impacts that they might have on society. Typically, assessing these effects relies on experts, and while this is essential, there... See more
On The Social Complexity of Neurotechnology: Designing A Futures Workshop For The Exploration Of More Just Alternative Futures * Journal of Futures Studies
The Futures Triangle can also be used for inner
work. The pull of the future is where one
wishes to be, the desired personal life one
imagines for oneself. The weight of the past can
be blocks - inner or outer - preventing one from
achieving the vision. The pushes of the present
can be enablers or externals pushes one needs
to navigate.
work. The pull of the future is where one
wishes to be, the desired personal life one
imagines for oneself. The weight of the past can
be blocks - inner or outer - preventing one from
achieving the vision. The pushes of the present
can be enablers or externals pushes one needs
to navigate.
inayatullah-2023-the-futures-triangle-origins-and-iterations.pdf
Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions — by their very existence as ideas — function causally to bring about their own reality.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
Research has shown a staggering number of health benefits associated with dispositional optimism, from improvements in cardiovascular health, to how quickly wounds heal, to slower disease progression.