Futures thinking
Imagination
Futures thinking
Optimizing future well-being with artificial intelligence: self-organizing maps (SOMs) for the identification of islands of emotional stability
Fedor Galkin • Optimizing future well-being with artificial intelligence: self-organizing maps (SOMs) for the identification of islands of emotional stability | Aging
the actual study
Uncertainty is our only certainty when it comes to AI and the future of work. This does not mean workers, busi -nesses, and the government have no options to prepare for that future. The most important step they can take is to promote and strengthen workers’ noncognitive skills to enhance their ability to adapt and persevere amid rapid change.
Brent Orrell • The Age of Uncertainty—and Opportunity: Work in the Age of AI
Hope is a flower of a different order, one that blooms in a striving acknowledgment, even celebration, of finitude and whatever we can bear through its innumerable relations.
John Lysaker • Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas
Because their thoughts, words and actions are infused with wisdom andcompassion, a person rooted in the present moment is like a brightly shining star that can be used to help navigate in thedark. They invigorate those around them and point out theway to individuals wanting to leave behind mindless livingand find their inner self. Their capacity to... See more
Dr Edo Shonin • Mindfulness: the Art of Being Human
a polyvagal futures literacy offers foresight practitioners and learners a powerful framework for meeting the future with agency, hope, and inner resourcefulness in the face of its complexity.
Kenneth Wee • Exploring a Polyvagal Futures Literacy * Journal of Futures Studies
Note also that this view is consistent with and indeed emerges from the multi-component model of hippocampal contributions to episodic future simulation put forth by Addis and Schacter (2012), which links the hippocampus with distinct components of future simulations, including both retrieval of episodic details and recombining those details.
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
You can’t really be in favour of both democracy and billionaires, because democracy requires equal opportunity in order to participate, and extreme wealth gives its holders unfathomable advantages with little accountability.
Rebecca Solnit • In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
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
To meet these challenges and increase the impact of foresight work, we need to rethink our approach from the very beginning of a project.