Alireza Hejazi's blog

Today, the increasing number of futurists, scholars, business planners, and others in the futuring field is a good sign of the usefulness of Futures Studies for humanity, just as Dator wished so 26 years ago (Dator, 1986).

Anyone interested in becoming a futurist can’t afford to miss these seven tipping points. In addition to the essential need of learning futures methods, theory, frameworks and philosophy, a futurist needs to be a disciplined guy in his profession.

There is a great need for fundamental change in our state of awareness and the way we feel reality, especially in terms of ‘futures consciousness’.

Futurists may be regarded ethical as far as their conducts are in conformity with the standards of professional moralities, but how do they define their professional ethics and to what extent do they remain really faithful to those ethics?

If we consider "thinking" as a cognitive process dealing with awareness, attention and process of factual, emotive and conative types of information, then we may characterize "collective thinking" (CT) as an interrelated cognitive process of such functions occurring among several individuals.

Developing frameworks for new theories in Futures Studies (FS) has been a field of interest among futurists. They make different efforts in finding new ways to deal with this interest.

"Masters' Insights" provides a theoretical basis for the students of Futures Studies and Strategic Foresight to grab common issues in the Futures field in a structured and constructive manner.

Organizing my thoughts about the futures, I did a little concepts exercise. The exercise helped me identify what I think is most important in Futures Studies (FS): Developing my mental model of FS; or a futurist’s futures thinking, or strategic foresight diagramed as an organizational function. Now, the output is a concept map that can be downloaded for free.

Becoming a student of Futures Studies (FS) is a challenging endeavor that should be navigated not only by the academic leaders and professors, but also personally by the students.

The neuropsychologists are studying the ability of remembering the past, present, and imagining the future, i.e. “Chronesthesia”. Their tangible results may affect our decisions in life, yet there are questions over practical aspects of Chronesthesia.