How to Future
On futuring, foresight and more.
How to Future
“The future is a weatherfront, and attempting to predict single lightning strikes is stupid and wasteful. Understand the future as weather, and yourself as standing on the shore looking out to the horizon. Breathe the air and watch the water. There are unpredictable riptides, and ancient trackways on the mud that flood and murder the unwary. There
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“Even setting aside bad logic and bad faith, it is not easy to think clearly about the future. Serious forecasts, the ones that aim to be more than snack food for the mind, aim to change our understanding and therefore our actions. If they change our actions, they are changing the very future they hope to describe.”
Future awareness games
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An interesting card game to think about the climate futures.
Why might you want a Malkovich then?
If you (from this world) hold the paper (from that world), then from the fingers up, you are knowing holding it as a futures exercise.
You will read it peering through the cracks in its construction, like watching Penn & Teller trick in a see-through box. And that is not really what it is for.
Instead, give people... See more
If you (from this world) hold the paper (from that world), then from the fingers up, you are knowing holding it as a futures exercise.
You will read it peering through the cracks in its construction, like watching Penn & Teller trick in a see-through box. And that is not really what it is for.
Instead, give people... See more