"Strategic foresight is a way of structuring your thinking so that you can create the future that you want," says futurist Kristen Alford. Do you agree?
The number of young people getting their licenses and interested in getting cars is declining. If this trend sticks, we may actually be moving away from an auto-centered culture.
We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilization as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you'll need to navigate our future.
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Not all of these are the usual suspects to be on such a list:
Bogota, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Mexico City, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, and Tokyo.
A thought-provoking list. The "Corporate Disorganizer" could be the strategic foresight specialist who helps the organization see how they fit or might fit with plausible futures.
a cautionary tale for futurists
"...in 1860 a group of futurologists was asked to predict how New York City would look in 100 years. They all agreed that by 1960, New York City would not exist because to move the population of that city would have required six million horses, and the manure of six million horses would have created such a problem that the city would have had to have been abandonded!"
Over the last century and a half, science fiction has evolved just as science has evolved. But does this mean there is actually a causal link between futurology and real scientific research? Could science fiction actually determine what technologies humanity ultimately invents? And if so, can this new generation of crowd empowered futurists be the ones who shape our future world?