Futures thinking
- To meet these challenges and increase the impact of foresight work, we need to rethink our approach from the very beginning of a project.
from The Beginning and the End of Foresight by Johannes Kleske
Mary Martin added 1mo ago
- 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.
from Cultivating Hyperstitions
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
- competitive intelligence is about the here and now—capturing and analysing information about an organisation's external landscape, which includes the activities of customers, competitors, distributors, technological trends, and prevailing market conditions. It typically has its sights set on the immediate future, up to five years ahead. It also ado... See more
from Strategic Foresight vs. Competitive Intelligence — Futures Platform by Bruno Jacobsen
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
competitive intelligence and strategic foresight
- 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.
from In the Shadow of Silicon Valley by Rebecca Solnit
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
- We do things to change the future, not the past
from How to think about time | Psyche Guides by Graeme A Forbes
Mary Martin added 6mo ago
- 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.
from What We Get Wrong About Manifesting
Mary Martin added 5mo ago
- Whatever action I take, walking, eating and excreting, incurs a cost to other lives, whether by killing and eating them directly, or by eating foods that they could otherwise have lived on. The most extreme impact my life has on other species is extinction, not just of their physical presence, but also of their memories, both those acquired within ... See more
from On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays by David Waltner-Toews
Mary Martin added 7mo ago
- 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.
from Exploring a Polyvagal Futures Literacy * Journal of Futures Studies by Kenneth Wee
Mary Martin added 1mo ago
- In February, scientists formed a new field, called organoid intelligence (OI), which is now considered the next frontier of biocomputing. To meet AI's growing computational needs, there's a shift away from traditional Von Neumann architecture towards more innovative approaches. One is neuromorphic computing, inspired by the brain's structure, which
... See morefrom What technology will matter most in 2024?
Mary Martin added 10mo ago