#jim dator

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Wait, he lectured in my journalism class once...

[nextwavefutures]

Images of the future

How images of the future create agency for change. New post at the next wave.

I was at a workshop in Cambridge during the summer, called ‘People and Patterns”, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The workshop was designed by Sarah Woods and Paul Ingram, as part of a research project that is trying to combine narrative and systems to develop new approaches to thinking about risk. It’s a new project—it’s been running since January 2023–and this was a…

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Giant Leap, or Too Little Too Late

‘Giant Leap, or ‘Too Little Too Late’. How futures is failing us—a ‘provocation’. New post on The Next Wave’.

I was invited to speak at the end of January at an event to mark the last decade of the journal Futures, and the retirement as editor-in-chief of Professor Ted Fuller. I was asked for a five minute ‘provocation’ looking backwards and forwards at futures work, and this represents the ‘director’s cut’ of that, since it includes some of the material that I cut for the event to stay to time. Finding…

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Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous

Jim Dator

[brianjohnspencer]

Any useful statement about the futures should appear to be ridiculous.

Jim Dator

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[orion-coalition]

Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous [in the present]. —Jim Dator

[s7vn]

Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous.

Jim Dator