Entries tagged with: Praxis

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Forensic Futurism

If there's a common trope about "futurism," it's that it gets everything wrong. From jetpacks to vacations on the Moon, any discussion of futurism in broader culture very quickly turns into a listing of the various crazy things that "futurists"...

Posted on February 16, 2012 3:39 PM

The Future Isn't What It Used to Be (TL;DR version)

Technology foresight has been stuck for the last 10-20 years; we need to be paying more attention to social-cultural futurism....

Posted on January 17, 2012 12:34 PM

The Future Isn't What It Used to Be

Foresight is not about making predictions. Rather, it's a tool for identifying dynamics of change, in part by exploring the implications of those changes. This is a point I've made often enough that even I'm sick of it --...

Posted on January 17, 2012 12:18 PM

The Future is a Virus (my Swedish Twitter University "talk")

Not literally, of course. But if we think about the future as something that infects us, we gain a new perspective on our world. Human civilization has a weak immune system when it comes to futures. We can sometimes recognize...

Posted on December 12, 2011 12:33 PM

The Foresight Paradox

In every foresight or forecasting exercise, there are two overarching tensions: The more certain and detailed the forecast, the more people will accept it and believe it to be useful. The more certain and detailed the forecast, the less likely...

Posted on September 28, 2011 12:39 PM

About Foresight (a minor rant)

Why worry about tomorrow? After all, according to one of our most respected thinkers, "always in motion is the future." It's a reasonable question. Consistently accurate predictions about interconnected complex systems are functionally impossible, at least at any real level...

Posted on August 9, 2011 1:00 PM

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