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When It Comes to Thinking About the Future, Should We Push or Pull? Prop-Up or Provoke? Conserve or Challenge? Futurists, Foresighters, and…

We need to have a chat about worldbuilding. (I’m mostly talking to the futures people, here, rather than the literature people… but the latter may find it of interest anyway, so please …

AI and Future of FuturesCall for Papers This special issue looks at AI and Futures in light of transformative developments in the fields broadly described as artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing, Large Language Models, or expert systems). How will AI help reimagine the practice of Futures? How would it shape the ways in which communities imagine and build Futures?  How might Futures evolve in an AI dominated environment? How might this emergence of knowledge shape the body of knowledge? Important Dates: Extended Abstract submission deadline: August 30, 2023. Notification of acceptance for submission to JFS: November 30, 2023. Final paper submission to JFS: February 29, 2024

Our own adjunct professor Adam Cowart was recently published in the Journal of Futures Studies. Living Between Myth and Metaphor: Level 4 of Causal Layered Analysis Theorised Abstract The purpose of this paper is to propose the inclusion of emplotment and what we might call “situating metaphors'' while