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The best attitude for a serious futurist is not pessimism or optimism, but a deep sense of engagement. -Bruce Sterling | The best attitude for a serious futurist is not pessimism or optimism, but a deep sense of engagement. -Bruce Sterling | ||
+ | The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. - William Gibson | ||
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+ | If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother teaching them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. -Buckminster Fuller | ||
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+ | Integral Theory suggests that four irreducible perspectives (subjective, | ||
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+ | At the heart of Embodied Foresight is the development of capacity to sit with uncertainty and not- knowing, to develop tolerance and acceptance of the discomfort that comes with doubt. A healthy relationship with doubt is seen as central to good practice within a conceptual understanding of the future as non-predictable and in-determinant. -Alex Burns | ||
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+ | Zen is strongly grounded in practise; there is a program of training that supports the development of the practition- er rather than development of the practitioner' | ||
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+ | Future studies give us in the Southern world a chance to break out of this shell of progressivism. Or, if you prefer, developmentalism or modernism. It gives us a chance to think about the future in our own terms, and without the constraints imposed by nineteenth century social theories and the categories popularised by social science disciplines, | ||
Translating global insight, the forte of futures studies, into local action, the forte of action research, would seem to be a promising challenge yet social change as structure and agency are integral to each other. Foresight without action is meaningless, | Translating global insight, the forte of futures studies, into local action, the forte of action research, would seem to be a promising challenge yet social change as structure and agency are integral to each other. Foresight without action is meaningless, | ||
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