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Apr 3

Terranascient Futures Studies and Foresight: Sustainability & Re-generativity

By Alexandra Whittington and Teresa Inés Cruz In 2012, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. The objective was to provide a framework of comprehensive goals and targets addressing the most urgent environmental, political, and economic challenges. Ten…

Futures Studies

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Terranascient Futures Studies and Foresight: Sustainability & Re-generativity
Terranascient Futures Studies and Foresight: Sustainability & Re-generativity

Mar 1

Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight

The importance of learning, unlearning, and relearning the wisdom in foresight By Alexandra Whittington and Teresa Inés Cruz Futurist Alvin Toffler famously said, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” It is time for…

Futures Studies

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Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight

Feb 28

Tomorrow’s Shopping Mall is Taking Shape Today

Tomorrow’s Shopping Mall is Taking Shape Today by Alexandra Whittington and Bart Édes U.S. shopping malls have been on the decline for many years, victims of a consumer culture that has turned toward strip malls and on-line shopping. Then the pandemic arrived and shoved many malls over the edge. Iconic…

Futurism

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Tomorrow’s Shopping Mall is Taking Shape Today
Tomorrow’s Shopping Mall is Taking Shape Today

Jan 24

Your Future Digital Workplace: Three Scenarios of Remote Work Teams

By Alexandra Whittington The way we work is shifting. The pandemic accelerated the remote working trend, and many companies now embrace the benefits of telecommuting, such as higher employee satisfaction and productivity, plus considerable cost savings. …

Futurism

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Your Future Digital Workplace: Three Scenarios of Remote Work Teams
Your Future Digital Workplace: Three Scenarios of Remote Work Teams

Jan 11

After the Pause: The Unspoken Futures of Higher Education

By Alexandra Whittington What are the most surprising or unexpected plausible future scenarios imaginable for the university? Even before the pandemic, mainstream debate about the future of higher education tended to oversimplify the issue into a binary choice between online learning and face-to-face instruction. In practice, it is extremely optimistic…

Futurism

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After the Pause: The Unspoken Futures of Higher Education
After the Pause: The Unspoken Futures of Higher Education

Nov 11, 2021

Ten EdTech Tools for the 2020s

Educational experiences are becoming more diverse by the day. Mobile, wireless, smart, and social technologies allow for learning at any place and at any time. Along with a strong trendline favoring lifelong learning, more and more people seem to sense an education is never complete. Now that on-demand, personalized learning…

Edtech

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Ten EdTech Tools for the 2020s
Ten EdTech Tools for the 2020s

Jul 5, 2021

The Content House: How to Make Friends and Influence People…From Home

This article is an excerpt from a new report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future. — A “collab house” or “content house” is a house where social media influencers live while creating shareable digital content. It is a creative and social media-friendly living environment. In the future, will every house be a content house? The 2020s could be a decade saturated with media emerging from living…

Future Of Work

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The Content House: How to Make Friends and Influence People…From Home
The Content House: How to Make Friends and Influence People…From Home

Jun 27, 2021

Smart Homes: Brain-Computer Interface in the House

This article is an excerpt from a new report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future. — Should a home literally stimulate the mind? A 2020 global survey by Ikea found that the majority — 78% of us — felt home was a refuge during the pandemic. Home became the place we frequently sheltered, worked, and learned during COVID-19, and it was a sanctuary for many. During…

Future

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Smart Homes: Brain-Computer Interface in the House
Smart Homes: Brain-Computer Interface in the House

Jun 21, 2021

A Visionary Home for the 2020s

This article is an excerpt from a new report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future. — The homes we inhabit in the 2020s could serve as a personal headquarters for building the good society. How can a house help create a more positive future? Here are four ways the home of the future might support meaningful personal commitment to the greater good.

Future

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A Visionary Home for the 2020s
A Visionary Home for the 2020s

Jun 13, 2021

Living in the Post-Pandemic USA

This article is an excerpt from a report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future. Scenario Vignette 1: Hotel Life Hotels and abandoned malls become pandemic-proof senior citizen communities Travel and retail sectors were never the same after the 2020 disruptions. It was not that they never recovered, but they were never the same.

Futurism

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Living in the Post-Pandemic USA
Living in the Post-Pandemic USA
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