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Futuring in 2100
Glen Hiemstra is the founder of Futurist.com. An internationally acclaimed expert on long-range trends and creating the preferred future, Glen has advised professional, business, and governmental organizations for two decades and served as a technical advisor for futuristic television programs. He is the author of Turning the Future into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Future and co-author of Strategic Leadership: Achieving your Preferred Future, Kirkland, Washington, USA
It was futurists who turned futuring into a verb. In doing so, futurists took our most basic and ancient human capacities—to remember, to anticipate, to imagine, to dream, and to plan—and turned them into a vocation.
Assuming that human civilization survives to the year 2100, as I do, it is likely that interest in the future will be greater than ever. Survival implies that we will have solved the next energy question, dealt with climate change, and continued our technological, cultural, and social development, including new steps toward a true space-faring civilization. Thus, in 2100, we will have a greater capacity and likely a greater desire to understand and shape the future. Futuring will thrive, amplified by very high performance data analytics, but still, in the end, requiring people to decide on the future they want.
In this program, I will reflect on the history of futuring, embedded within the history of cultural images of the future, and then imagine what futuring, and future images, will be like as we turn into the next century.
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