Nicole Woods

@nicolejwoods

Said differently, society today frames productivity in a way that only sees “doing” and excludes “being”
from Aliveness: Reframing Productivity by Thomas Klaffke
As author and philosopher Bonnitta Roy would say, we must “dream ourselves awake.”
from The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
“The Official Future” tells us to “think exponentially, act incrementally,” beckoning us to utilize foresight in service of the ever-expanding present systems of quantifying, micro-analyzing, extracting, consuming, and automating. This way of futuring is at the heart of Epistemic Uncertainty. “The Emergent Future” instead challenges us to “ think t... See more
from The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
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?
from The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
“This or that will happen in the next 1, 3, 5, 10+ years” is a predictive mechanism that shackles and impoverishes humanity’s need to cultivate imagination-empowered and experiential consciousness that transcends the boundaries of time and space.

from The Future Thinker’s Dilemma