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Fig. 2. Scenario matrix highlighting the main characteristics of four...
Download scientific diagram | Scenario matrix highlighting the main characteristics of four plausible alternative futures, arising from the combination of two axes describing key uncertainties regarding the future development of Transylvania (modified from Hanspach et al., 2014) . from publication: The role of scenarios in fostering collective action for sustainable development: Lessons from central Romania | Collective Action, Sustainable Development and Natural Resources Conservation | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.
Why is the world — including degrowthers — crying for innovation? | illuminem
Our global community is at a crossroads. Accepting the present quo is like navigating modern civilization with a typewriter and carrier pigeon—charming but impractical
Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply
Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.
Future Signals 2024 - Raging against the machine: artists fight back against AI with data poisoning
As the boom of text-to-image generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues, artists are threatened not only by cheaper, AI-fuelled competition but by the risk that their work is scraped from the web and used to train AI models, without consent or compensation. Recently, some artists have started to fight fire with fire, trialling ‘data poisoning’ as a technical solution: deliberately inserting corrupted or malicious data into the training material for AI models to prevent its proper function. Could this presage the bust to follow AI’s boom?
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What’s the best way to increase productivity? Stop producing
In many organizations, tightly scheduled calendars prioritize urgent projects with measurable short-term outcomes. Instead, make time to think about the future.
How to Prepare for a GenAI Future You Can’t Predict
Given the staggering pace of generative AI development, it’s no wonder that so many executives are tempted by the possibilities of AI, concerned about finding and retaining qualified workers, and humbled by recent market corrections or missed analyst expectations. They envision a future of work without nearly as many people as today. But this is a miscalculation. Leaders, understandably concerned about missing out on the next wave of technology, are unwittingly making risky bets on their companies’ futures. Here are steps every leader should take to prepare for an uncertain world where generative AI and human workforces coexist but will evolve in ways that are unknowable.
Debate on What is a Futurist with Rizzo, Fergnani, Bhagat & DaVanzo
#MuseumOfTheFuture #DubaiFutureForum2023 #DubaiFutureForum
Speakers:
Prof. Alex Fergnani, Rabat Business School
Sarah DaVanzo, Pierre Fabre Foundation
Alisha Bhagat, Forum for the Future
Moderated by:
Dr. Gabriele Rizzo, Foresight Executive Advisor
Held at the Dubai Future Forum 2023 (Museum of the Future, Dubai).
Re-uploaded with permission from the Dubai Future Foundation.
SESSION ABSTRACT
This session aims to give voice to contrasting views on arguably the most pressing yet unanswered question in the larger field of futures studies and strategic foresight: who is a futurist/foresight professional (and who is not)?
Answering this question means disentangling a set of underlying interrelated problems: what are the credentials necessary to be a professional in the field? Why have we not standardized such credentials yet? How can we describe and measure levels of capabilities and competencies regarding those credentials? What should the barriers of entry to become a professional in this field be, if any? How do we ensure that the field grows and achieves democratization without losing in quality? What and how do we define “quality”?
Dubai Future Foundation YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dubaifuturefoundation2066
Degrowth is an idea that critiques the global capitalist system which pursues growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. The degrowth movement of activists and researchers advocates for societies that prioritize social and ecological well-being instead of corporate profits, over-production and excess consumption. This requires radical redistribution, reduction in the material size of the global economy, and a shift in common values towards care, solidarity and autonomy. Degrowth means transforming societies to ensure environmental justice and a good life for all within planetary boundaries.
Communicating the Future: Foresight as Mindfulness – An Interview with Sohail Inayatullah * Journal of Futures Studies
View PDF Journal of Futures Studies, September 2021, 26(1): 91–100 Communicating the Future: Foresight as Mindfulness – An Interview with Sohail Inayatullah Bes Pittman Baldwin, Principal Futurist at Best Futures Forward, Durham, NC USA Sohail Inayatullah, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia ; Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan ;