EATING TOMORROW: PODCAST LETS U.S. SOY START A CONVERSATION ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD
By Jeremy Nulik, Julienne DeVita and Matthew Jensen For as much as we try to move on, piece our lives together and soothe the fears of...
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Jun 116 min read
SAFE SPACES TO CHART COLLECTIVE FUTURES: SHARED FOOD PREPARATION AS A PARTICIPATORY FUTURES METHODOLOGY
By Estefania Simon-Sasyk The "bottom-up approach" resonates with the ideals of participatory democracy and community empowerment....
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Jun 116 min read
DEEPER VISIONS OF FOOD FUTURES: HOW TO ESCAPE THE TRAP OF TECHNO-CENTRISM
By Quinault Childs With the explosion in accessibility of generative AI, one thing we’ve noticed at the Institute for the Future (IFTF)...
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Jun 115 min read
SANKOFA: EMBRACING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURES OF FOOD SECURITY
By Fisayo Oyewale As our world grapples with a growing population, economic volatility, and the looming threat of climate change, the...
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Jun 118 min read
THE AMAZONS OF FOOD OR FOOD FOR ALL: EMERGING ISSUES AND SCENARIOS
By Sohail Inayatullah, Ivana Milojevic, and Hafeez Zainal Harnessing science, technology, and innovation (STI) is key to meeting the...
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Jun 119 min read
LEVERAGING FORESIGHT TO ADDRESS FOOD INSECURITY
By Ben Holt Food fuels everything that humans do. The calories we consume energise our bodies, and eating is deeply connected to culture...
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Sanjay Rout
Mar 116 min read
BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY: THE EMERGENCE OF IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES
BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY: THE EMERGENCE OF IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES By Prof. (Dr.) Sanjay Rout In thе еvеr-accеlеrating landscapе...
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Deidre Samson and Ian Paterson
Mar 711 min read
THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
Exploring a vision of mobility for the City of Cape Town in 2050 “The shifts in thinking, shaped by our scenarios, have been widespread...
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Wendy Schultz
Feb 276 min read
COLLAPSE RINGS MANY CHANGES
Source: ChatGPT/Dall-E prompted by Wendy Schultz People often ask why so many catastrophe movies exist, and so few utopian/protopian...
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Jim Murray
Feb 243 min read
BOOKS AND MEDIA REVIEW: BRIDGE MAKERS: BECOMING A CITIZEN FUTURIST
April Reagan encourages readers to think and act like a futurist in her new book, Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist. It serves...
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Dr. Monica Mastrantonio
Feb 237 min read
COLLAPSE: TO FALL TOGETHER
Collapse comes from the Latin verb "collabi," which means "to fall together." The prefix "col" is the root for "together," and "labi" is...
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Sylvia Gallusser
Feb 237 min read
WISDOM OF CODE: A FICTION
Source: MidJourney The day we buckled our seat belts in the helicopter is the date humanity 2.0 was set in motion. Six of us, crammed...
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Elina Hiltunen
Feb 199 min read
USING SCIENCE FICTION AS A TOOL FOR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ORGANIZATIONS TO IMAGINE THE FUTURE OF WAR
Image: Leonardo.ai "Go see the Harry Potter films; they'll give you some good ideas for product development," the head of an...
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Richard Hames
Feb 196 min read
THE CROSSROADS OF FATE AND DESIRE
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution. A juncture that goes to the heart of whether we are just another species on the path to...
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Mark Frauenfelder
Feb 195 min read
FIVE KEY PRINCIPLES FOR CRAFTING ENGAGING AND EFFECTIVE FORECASTS
Image by Mark Frauenfelder using Midjourney Computer scientist Alan Kay is often credited for saying, “The best way to predict the future...
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Jan 94 min read
Overcoming Facilitation Dilemmas in Foresight
Facilitation is a greatly underappreciated skill. And rightly so. When done right, facilitation should go unseen – an invisible force...
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Jan 97 min read
Adjacency Theory: The Science of the Twigs, Discovering the Forgotten, and the Omens of the Present
Nuance is our birthright. If speculative futures paint a picture of the future using our senses, Adjacency Theory is an inward journey...
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Jan 97 min read
Techistentialism: Could Superstupidity be as Dangerous as Superintelligence?
In 2017, we named our strategic foresight practice Techistential,[1] a play on “technology” and “existential.” Today, humanity faces...
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Dec 31, 20235 min read
Foresight in Action – A Personal Story
This story starts with futurist Patricia Lustig and me thinking about existential threats, while we were discussing our next book...
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Dec 31, 20235 min read
Many Routes for Self-Driving Cars
The dream of cars that drive themselves is finally something that some consumers are beginning to experience, but the vision and dream is...
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