The Future
Looking, exploring, designing what is to be - perspectives into what's ahead of us
The Future
Why are we futuring to find solutions to the problems created by extrapolative, exponential, and extractive systems, when we should be futuring to imagine emerging novelty and construct transformative realities that would allow us to elevate our human, planetary, and universal experience above and beyond those systems?
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
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“What shocks me the most when i travel to the West is that even the new generations dread the future and display many of the symptoms associated with anxiety, including the inability to make plans and see them through.
As they can't identify the root cause of their distress, they indulge in fantasies about themselves and the world around them.
Thus
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There is no room for diverse futures in the boardroom when all they’re concerned with is hitting the next quarter’s KPIs.
Theo Priestley • Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures
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“Moving away from an Anthropocene into a Symbiocene requires a biological, psychological, and sacred perspective in our foresight & futures thinking work.... See more
Why? When we leave out the interconnected, vibrant, and emergent qualities of life in favor of only serving dominant systems of productivity, efficiency, and hyper-monetization, we fail to re
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
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"empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them"
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
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Fascinating Future
“Civium is a way of looking at cities, and specifically what a post-city world might look like.
It imagines an alliance between technology and the countryside replacing the city as the focus of creativity and wealth-creation.
It is the idea that there is no longer much point living in the middle of a large conurbation when you can n
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