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Poll: If it’s true that “the future is already here, just unevenly distributed” where in the world is it most concentrated? (Future in broad sense: political, technological, cultural etc., and not necessarily good or bad)
  • North America
    23.4%
  • Western Europe
    9.3%
  • East Asia
    59.2%
  • Other (reply to specify)
    8.1%
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I think the point is not just geographically uneven distribution, but also that different aspects of “the future” are already present in different places.
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What he said ☝️ It’s about what futurists call ‘emerging issues’: changes across the STEEP spectrum that are currently rare but may become more prevalent in the future.
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I don’t know anything like a standard futures textbook, there are classics though: Polak’s Image of the Future, Jim Dator’s articles, Schwartz’ Art of the Long View, Ogilvy’s Facing the Fold, to name a few. I’ve mostly picked up these things from actual classes and reports. :)
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