by Suzanne Whitby | 2 weeks ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Earlier this year, Futurism reported that OpenAI has launched a health-focused version of ChatGPT that can ingest full medical records. When accessed, it issues an explicit warning it shouldn’t be used for diagnosis or treatment. This raises some interesting questions...
by Suzanne Whitby | 3 weeks ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
As a futures facilitator, my attention is often less on the artefact or the method (the scenario, the trend map, the framework) and more on what’s happening in the room. Are people speaking in abstractions, or from experience? Are they distancing themselves from the...
by Suzanne Whitby | 1 month ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
I’ve been reading Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp, and it’s made me reflect on collapse narratives. Although they can be useful (and I certainly use them in some contexts), I’m increasingly wary of collapse narratives in...
by Suzanne Whitby | 2 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Every futures process answers a hidden question before anyone speaks: Who is this space (or workshop or initiative) designed for? If participation requires quick thinking, public speaking, or confidence under pressure, then only certain people, and by association,...
by Suzanne Whitby | 3 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Although I know nothing about basketball, I’ve been thinking about something often called the “Chris Paul effect” since reading about it in Jamil Zaki’s article about super-facilitators in the Harvard Business Review. In case you don’t know anything about this...
