by Suzanne Whitby | 3 weeks ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Reddit, for all it’s faults, is a fabulous place for futurers to “lurk”. One finds signals and provocations galore! Earlier this week on a thread about urban planning (yes, urban futures is one of my focal points), someone described how switching to an electric...
by Suzanne Whitby | 2 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
I live in a region where the glaciers are receding. Global heating means that the future of glaciers in Tirol looks bleak, with a new study from ETH Zurich suggesting that by 2100, only about 3% of the glacier mass from 2017 may remain due to climate change. The...
by Suzanne Whitby | 2 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
If anyone missed this in The Guardian yesterday, futures & trends firm Citrini Research posted a futures scenario on Substack that resulted in shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express falling. A SCENARIO. Of a possible – not predicted, possible...
by Suzanne Whitby | 3 months 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 months 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 | 4 months 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...
