Interview by Sohail Inayatullah with ChatGPT This is the second part of a two-part interview with ChatGPT. In part one, I asked it to examine itself i.e., conduct a CLA. In this part two, I ask it to develop scenarios, a preferred vision, and a backcast of itself. The interview concludes with my reflections on the conversation. Introduction SI: well, do you know the Change progression scenario method developed by Inayatullah and Milojević. CG: Yes, I am familiar with the Change Progression Scenario method (CPS) developed by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević (Milojević, 2004; Inayatullah, 2020). The CPS method…
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Interview by Sohail Inayatullah with ChatGPT This is a two-part interview with ChatGPT. In part one, I ask it to examine itself i.e., conduct a CLA. In part two, I ask it to develop scenarios, a preferred vision, and a backcast of its evolution. The interview concludes with my reflections on the conversation. INTRODUCTION In January 2023, a LinkedIn colleague, Shiqin Choo, posted a chat he had with ChatGPT, an AI bot that uses human prompts to answer questions and engage in dialogue. He asked ChatGPT what Causal Layered Analysis was (Inayatullah, Mercer, Milojević, and Sweeney, 2023)? The answer was…
by Sarah Mecartney When I was a child, I had a dragon named Figment from the Disney Epcot Centre’s, Journey of Imagination. Figment travelled everywhere with me. We explored the world together discovering multiple possibilities. I lost Figment along the way but rediscovered the power and joy of imagination with strategic foresight. Futures has strengthened my ability to better make connections between imaginative thinking, creativity and practice in the strategic planning for organisational transformation space. Multiple futures tools can be used for individual needs but when connected they create greater impact. A key learning has been the importance of thoughtful…
By Ivonne Lonna El propósito de la rueda de futuros (futures wheel) en el marco de un proceso prospectivo, es identificar las consecuencias posibles de un conjunto de acontecimientos en un contexto dado. Esta rueda es una herramienta creada por Jerome Glenn en 1971 (Glenn y Gordon, 2009) y en el presente estudio se usa relacionando la ética en 9 tipos de riesgos (tecnológico, económico, político, social, ambiental, educativo, psicológico, cultural y legal) con 2 tipos de impactos, identificados en el pasado, presente y futuro, en una implicación que sobresale en las industrias creativas en México, los derechos de autor.…
by Taskeen Ali, Alberto Behar, John Clift, Rafael Ramirez The content represents the authors’ personal views. Introduction Space has been a source of curiosity for thousands of years. Now lots is changing. In 2031 the International Space Station will be de-orbited and replaced by a commercial enterprise, as private firms conduct activities previously dominated by national space agencies (NASA, 2021). With the global space sector already growing at a rapid rate (Morgan Stanley, 2020), challenges for global institutions and governance, as well as risks of negative spillovers from space to the global economy, have both given a new impetus for macro-economists…
Author: Colin Clouddance | Cape Town Curios | Twitter: @ColinClouddance Introduction Meteor showers occur several times a year; they are the small bits of debris left by comets as they pass through the inner solar system. From the ground, those bits of dust appear as beautiful falling stars, however each is a speck of dust that burns and is destroyed as it hits the Earth’s atmosphere. A meteor shower is the perfect cover for an alien invasion. Living in Cape Town, while on her way to work in the central business district, Deatra witnesses a theft. What is stolen is…
CLA of the Gods[1] Marcus Bussey University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia I had the good fortune to meet Sohail Inayatullah in Kolkata in December 1989. This small slice of biography is important as his personal and intellectual path showed me that I could break free of the gravity of ‘small’, find my own escape velocity, and leap into the Cosmos of possibilities. And leap I did! This early meeting also meant that I got to connect with him and his partner, Ivana Milojević in 1993 when they moved to Brisbane, Australia. This was when the method now known as…
Authors/Artists: Jenell Navarro | California Polytechnic State University | Instagram @jenell78 Cameron Clay| California Polytechnic State University | Instagram @cammz Leilani Hemmings Pallay | California Polytechnic State University | Instagram @nani.isabelle Cosmic Ancestry: Afrobliss Inner Space Explorations is a zine that operationalizes visual texts to dream of a world where the entire biosphere, including all of our human and non-human relatives (land, plants, water, animals, birds), live free from the reins of colonization. To do this we draw on many of the liberating images of Wakanda such as a world curated by the goddess panther Bast, the power of Black…
by Marcus Bussey, University of the Sunshine Coast I cannot find words for what I want to say. It has been that way for most of my life. I came to Futures because of this aphasic condition. Futures offered, it seemed to me, the place/space for the ‘unsaid’; for the emergent and ‘not-yet’. Yet in futures I must face my own finitude, my own limits. I must listen to the beyond as a distant heartbeat. I must renounce words yet use them to craft a space from which other anticipatory senses can perform their magic (Bussey, 2017). So here I…
by Ivana Milojević “‘Did you actually shoot people, shoot at living people?’ The eyes of the young people showed surprise and sparked with reproach and bewilderment. Life was sacred.” (Aleksandra Kollontai, 1922) To end war, we need to challenge the futures fallacies we use to construct reality. We also need to envision peaceful futures. This essay analyses a ‘failure of (futures) imagination’ behind wars and concludes with four meditations/visions on peace. Positive Futures Visions vs Used Futures One hundred years ago, Aleksandra Kollontai (Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й), a revolutionary, politician, theorist, and diplomat, wrote a short eutopian[1] story entitled…