Resources and Environment

  • Environmental issues

  • Biodiversity

  • Impacts of climate change

Futures Methodologies, Tools, and Processes

  • Factors that influence the accuracy of predictions

  • Methodologies that are most effective

  • Effectiveness of futurists in relating to the general public

  • Qualitative vs. quantitative methods

  • What new futures studies methodologies will emerge?

  • Impact of the rising power and influence of Asia on long-term and holistic thinking

  • What is the future of futurism itself?

The Future Itself

  • Which types of societies can best withstand and adapt to rapid change?

  • Which will prevail, the Western reductionistic way of thinking or the Eastern holistic way?  (Note: the way that this question is framed is itself reductionistic!)

  • Is the dialectic a mechanism of progress, and if so, will it continue to be?

  • How does "the future" happen?

  • What cycles influence the future?

  • What major challenges will exist in 2030?

 

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