Exploring alternative futures
summary
Visions shape decisions and also narrow them, so the piece argues for expanding story sources and building tangible scenarios to test alternatives. It shows a 24‑hour immersive lab called citizen rotation office that uses a citizen assessment, actors, props and an algorithm to force different daily lives; cites Nollywood as the world’s second‑largest film industry by volume; offers tools like the four generic futures and the futures wheel to map consequences and surface surprising policy and design levers.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:36Visions of the future
- 3:14The power of narratives
- 6:01Breaking limited mindsets
- 8:41History of futurism
- 12:00Alternative perspectives
- 14:46The role of storytelling
- 17:43Speculative science fiction
- 21:03Design and futuring
- 23:15Building scenarios
- 26:04Four generic futures
- 28:49Applying foresight
- 32:13Q&A and closing
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