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Forum for the Future's latest Future of Sustainability report explores five key dynamic areas with major influence on human, planetary and economic health, and reveals four distinct trajectories emerging from the COVID-19 crisis.
A mix of Signals of change submitted by users around the world and longer-form Insights - explorations of the emerging systemic change we are seeing, from futurists, academics, business leaders, sustainability experts, that help with sensemaking - literally: making sense of the world.
A signal of change is like a seed of a possible future. It can be any development, idea or innovation that points to a future possibility different to today’s norm. We are especially interested in signals that point to the possibility of significant systemic change, or those that illuminate an unexpected aspect of an ongoing change. Not all signals do end up coming to fruition, because the future is inherently uncertain. Signals help us to think in terms of multiple possible futures, to think more widely and creatively about the future and to anticipate unintended consequences.
On the back of a new report into the future of sustainability, Chief Executive Dr Sally Uren reflects on how organisations are harnessing the disruption caused by COVID-19 to put us on a ‘transform’ trajectory
At the start of this year, we thought this would be the year of another climate COP, another year of rising carbon emissions, unheeded warnings, quiet despair at business as…
Backcasting is one of the key tools in the futurists’ toolbox. Pick a date in the future, decide where you want to be by then, and work back. If you…
James Goodman explores the benefits of community-led ‘futuring’ as a “starting reconfiguration” of the way things work.
Now is the time to ask what role we want tech to play in our future, and how we can make sure it works in favour of healthy societies.
Dr Agnes Kalibata, UN Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit, explores what it will take to build nutrition for all into the foundation of our future food systems.
Why empowering young people is crucial to any sustainable recovery – and could be the key to building resilient, regenerative societies.
Basic income is a long standing idea of giving everyone a recurring cash payment. Using new financial innovations, GoodDollar creates a sustainable money flow that enables any human alive to…
Google’s new product, Career Certificates, teach “job-ready skills” for high-demand roles such as IT support, with three further courses in the pipeline – targeting UX designers, data analysts and project…
The world around us is changing everyday in a blizzard of transient news headlines. But what are the deeper patterns and signals in the noise? What might they mean for how we live, create, consume, collaborate, and work? How are the deeper systems that we rely on shifting? Where might be the best places to intervene to accelerate change for sustainability?
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not just disrupting daily life, but also the fundamental assumptions, values people hold and their way of thinking about the world. The deepest changes come from…
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