I have just started a new series are Prepare with Foresight about what strategic foresight is and how it can be applied to contingency planning and disaster preparedness. What is the most important tool in your survival kit? Is it the tins of food, the can opener, the gun, the bullets, the gas lamp? Your … Continue reading Using Strategic Foresight in Disaster Preparedness
Tag: Futures Studies
Many self help authors want readers to connect to their future selves, but none of them offer any practical tools for doing so. Such authors look too narrowly at the future to guide readers into visualizing multiple, plausible futures, and readers often give up or lose faith when their actual future turns out differently than they … Continue reading Learn more from your future than you do from your past
I have written before about how unprofessional it is for journalists and bloggers to say, "it may sound like science fiction but...." This statement is a reflection of the popular disdain for science fiction and of anyone who looks at the future. After the decades of journalists writing about science fiction predicting that which is … Continue reading Common Mistakes When Thinking About the Future
A friend and I have decided to try starting a more intensive blogging site. ad Futura is intended to be a foresight magazine for the masses--popular foresight in the same meaning as Popular Mechanics or Popular Science. ad Futura is taken from the latin to mean "to the future." We actually borrowed the often quoted … Continue reading ad Futura
Virtual reality is extending beyond the headset as researchers tap into all five senses to find new ways to immerse users in electronic experiences. When these technologies converge, users will have complete immersion in virtual worlds bringing viable solutions for businesses with improved collaboration and development; for health with pain management and physical rehabilitation; for … Continue reading Senses working overtime commentary
