I watched quantum physicist Shohini Ghose explain something that futures practitioners often feel in their bones: in quantum physics, uncertainty isn’t a measurement problem. It’s built into reality.
Some things are fundamentally unknowable. And instead of treating that as failure, quantum science treats uncertainty as a resource: something you can work with, design with, even build new capabilities from.
That resonated for me as a futures facilitation principle: we don’t wait for certainty to act. We design decisions that can adapt as reality reveals itself.
If you’re thinking about possible futures in your next meeting, it might be worth asking, “What becomes possible if we stop demanding certainty before we move?”