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Droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains during the last half of this century could be drier and longer than drought conditions seen in those regions in the last 1,000 years, according to a new NASA study.

Peter Diamandis: In accordance with Moore's Law, by 2025 we'll see an acceleration in the rate of change as we move closer to a world of true abundance.

Via Société Française de Prospective

For all of us strategic foresight practitioners and trend researchers: How often do you get asked if you can predict the future? Whether you have a glass ball to see the future? Or when looking back on

FUTUR - À quoi ressemblera le monde dans 10 ans? Cet exercice périlleux de prédiction est un classique de la prospective. Et qui de mieux pour y répondre que des spé

Les générations futures ont leur média - Retrouvez toute l'actualité des générations futures

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At one time the future was consistently presented as this bright thing where all these problems were going to be solved. I remember that feeling of wow, starvation will be solved and the air will be clean, weapons will be obsolete because we’ll understand that there are better places to put our energy. And gradually that vision has just been nibbled away at until it’s basically not there. And what’s in its place is this very dark, negative version that everyone seems to have accepted. Damon and I kept looking at each other and asking what changed it? And is it possible to get back to it?

Understanding the symbiotic relationship between humans and our tools fundamentally requires an ability to appreciate and use both the knowable and unknowable attributes of complex emergence. For decision-making this implies not only a greater degree of humility when agency is wielded from within the constraints of probabilistic thinking, but also a paradigmatic leap to non-probabilistic ways of using the future that make it easier to make sense of the previously unknowable. Enhancing our grasp