Saw a person propose a summer reading list for futures interested people and it is crap.

Futures studies people have an extreme bias about the future being desirable. The whole book list is about this idea. That's not guaranteed at all and it creates a blind spot. Consider possible negative scenarios and bad outcomes for a complete picture of the future.

Read Breaking Together by Jem Bendell and At Work In The Ruins by Dougald Hine, and also see the recent paper in Nature about planetary boundaries (posted earlier today).

These extreme positive near term scenarios are also extremely unlikely now. But if you talk to futures people they are way out in la la land and will react negatively to the idea.

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Millennium Project: “Our #future is Where the Heart is: How #futuresliteracy Can Enhance #youthvoice and the Case of #youthpolicy Development in #Laos” is a new publication by @ShermonCruz, Chair of our #Philippines Node, et al. in the #Journal of #futuresstudies. Read more: millennium-project.org/futures-litera… pic.twitter.com/NaUSr9cc9B https://twitter.com/MillenniumProj/status/1603400247912370177

Millennium Project: Experts from our Nodes will be joining “Beyond the now – Living the #Future”, an international conference in #FuturesStudies hosted by the @PMU_KSA in cooperation with @worldfutures, December 6-8, 2022. in Saudi Arabia. Read more: https://www.millennium-project.org/pmu-international-conference-in-futures-studies-dec-6-8-2022/
@ShermonCruz @ibonzugasti https://nitter.net/MillenniumProj/status/1599766996937105409#m

Millennium Project: Is it possible to expand the way the #futurecone is used in #futuresstudies? Read more in this essay by @notis13 from our Greece Node published in the Journal of Futures Studies: https://www.millennium-project.org/a-new-essay-about-the-futures-cones-journal-of-futures-studies/
#futuresstudies https://nitter.net/MillenniumProj/status/1597543567467372544#m

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