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Seeds of a better future

Imagining what the seeds of a better future will look like as trees creates the possibility of change. New post at the next wave.

Photo by Marco Verch/flickr. CC BY 2.0. One of the tough parts of futures work is helping people step out of the present. The sheer weight of how we do things and think about things right here, right now, gets in the way of people imagining how things can change for the better. One method that I’ve used—and I’m very much standing on the shoulders of the futurists Wendy Schultz and Tanja Hichert…

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Making sense of the Gamestop moment

Making sense of the Gamestop moment: exposing the stock market for what it is. New post.

Stock prices can go down as well as up. (Chart source: Bloomberg) Like everyone else I have been trying to work out what to make of the GameStop bubble as it blew up last week. These are some notes from my reading over the week. I’ve been helped here by my son Peter, who sometimes hangs out in the reddit subgroup that has caused some of the trouble, and who wrote a nice explainer last week on…

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On visioning

Wendy Schultz on Visioning. @infinitefutures interviewed by @nextwavefutures. #4futr

As part of the Tools for Hope day I co-organised in London for the APF with Tanja Hichert, I interviewed all of the speakers about their presentations. The event was in November. Thee interviews are going to go up on the Tools for Hope site over the next few weeks.

The first to go live, as it were, is with Wendy Schultz, whom I talked to about visioning; why it’s been a bit neglected in the…

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