Urbanization: Post-Pandemic Scenarios
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Urbanization seemed like an obvious trend, and then COVID-19 changed the world. Can cities flourish after a pandemic? They often do. New York, Paris, and London experienced rapid growth after the Spanish Flu of 1918. People will always search for the connections that cities provide. By James H. Lee
Souvenirs for Time Travelers, Democratizing Capitalism, and more
Futurist Brain Tickler: Reverse Time Capsule
Here’s a challenge for time travel aficionados. Imagine you could visit your grandparents (or great-grandparents) 100 years ago, and you want to bring them a gift from the future. Create a time capsule from today—for yesterday.
Reverse Time Capsule
Cindy Wagner
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Imagine you could visit your grandparents (or great-grands) 100 years ago, and you want to bring them the gift of the future. Create a time capsule from today for yesterday. What would you put in it to bring to the year 1920?
Air Travel Competes for a Future, Futurist Ideas and Insights, Hot Topics, and more
Can Air Travel Compete with Virtual Travel?
As the current global pandemic has illustrated, digital technologies offer an affordable and time-saving alternative to physical travel, a phenomenon particularly affecting airlines and aircraft manufacturers, notes NASA scientist Dennis Bushnell in his latest article for the Foresight Signals blog.
Digital Reality versus Air Travel: The Responsibly Imaginable
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The development of digital reality (DR)—virtual, nonphysical presence—began with the telegraph, progressed to the telephone, then moved to telephones with screens, and now to computers. The nearer-term developments of DR include augmented reality and advanced virtual reality (VR), and it is heading toward five-senses VR and holographic projection. Going forward with the availability of ever greater bandwidth and direct machine-to-brain communications (bypassing the senses), DR is projected to be as good as, or better than, physical reality.
Black Futures Matter, Global Peace Trends, and more
Hot Topic: The Future In Black and White
Previously in Foresight Signals we have presented the work many futurists and organizations have been conducting to prepare their clients and the public for a post-pandemic future. This work continues, even as other threats to our collective future demand immediate attention, including ongoing assaults on the global climate, the economy, democracy, security, and human rights.
On Methodology: Technology Foresight (Event Report)
Tim Mack
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As part of its executive education webinar series on workforce planning in the “next normal,” Vanderbilt University hosted a Zoom lecture June 23 on “Technology Foresight: Predicting and Planning for the Future” led by Professor Andy Van Schaack of the School of Engineering Management. The goal was to present futures techniques needed to redesign workforces for a new business landscape.
More Post-Pandemic Resources, Moves in the Field, Remembering Irv Buchen, and more
Protesting Injustice, Fighting for Futures
Post-pandemic Scenarios and Resources, DIY TP, Weird Futurist Trick, and more
Foresight Resources on the Pandemic
Futurists and other international foresight strategists are developing post-pandemic scenarios, hosting webinars and discussion groups, and producing reports and guidance intended to help decision makers think past the immediate COVID-19 crisis.
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