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Seven forthcoming futurist and futurist-adjacent events
Dear Futurists, It has never been harder to predict the future. That’s because of: (You may have other issues to add to that list!) Nevertheless, despite this radical uncertainty, some profound trends seem to me to be likely to continue: … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Whittington, Bruce Lloyd, Dario Amodei, Democracy, Ezra Chapman, Future of Education, Gerd Leonhard, ICfS, James of Ârc, kinexum, Liselotte Lyngsø, London Futurists, LonFut, Matt O'Neill, Peter Scott, Pull The Plug, Take Back Tomorrow, The Adolescence of Technology, The Bad Future, Wow or Yeow
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Better foresight: 10 possible follow-ups
Dear Futurists This is a short note to aggregate various suggestions for topics deserving a deeper investigation following up the wide-ranging discussion in our webinar yesterday (Saturday), “How can better foresight actually improve the world”. If you missed that webinar … Continue reading
Three slides and two videos
Dear Futurists, In many ways, the world has never been better. But in many other ways, the world has never been riskier. That’s the headline on the first main slide of the short scene-setting remarks I’ll be sharing at the … Continue reading
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From forecasts to levers
Dear Futurists, It’s time to share a theme which will be guiding my plans for London Futurists in 2026: “From forecasts to levers”. Here’s the context: As I see it, futurists and other practitioners of foresight have often created impressive-looking … Continue reading
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Scenarios for 2030
Dear Futurists, A major complication in preparing for the next few years is that there are so many hard-to-predict factors that could quickly surge in importance – each one of which could overturn our previous assumptions about how human experience … Continue reading
Transcending mediocre futurism
Dear futurists The world is full of remarkable change – some of it awe-inspiring, some of it deeply concerning. Yet we often find ourselves surrounded by what might be called “worldly wisdom”, or “mediocre futurism” – claims that: Via London … Continue reading
Bold claims for a better future
Dear Futurists, What’s the most important book of the decade? Read on, to discover which book book is described that way by Max Tegmark, the President of the Future of Life Institute – and himself the author of two of … Continue reading
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The future of the future
Dear Futurists, The future is changing. Compared to years gone past, the kinds of conversations we futurists need to catalyse have become more urgent, and also more diverse. In fields as wide as politics, technology, psychology, and philosophy, we can … Continue reading
Two meetings in the next four days
Dear Futurists, 1.) Experiments with AI I start this newsletter with an experiment. “Imagine a map of the world highlighting London, Paris, and Riyadh”, I asked the Midjourney AI. I thought that such an image would be a good lead-in … Continue reading
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Priorities for 2025 and beyond
Dear Futurists, What should we do less in 2025, to allow ourselves more time and energy to increase our focus on other matters that we decide deserve more of our attention? Here, by the word “we”, I mean each of … Continue reading
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