I understand this urge of TED speakers to always saying never before "no people at all" had made what they are doing or saying. Ok, it is part of show, but claim that last century there was no now trying to thinking about the future is too much for me. Last two centuries were all about how to emancipate humanity, which model fits better our needs and how to implement this model. The last two centuries are the history of the destruction of the tradition and implementation of the modernity, the implementation of the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. The main problems that we are facing todays is result of this logic of always looking ahead, think too much about the future and ignore our history and our every day reality (climate change, artificial scarcity, inequality, so on). For sure we need to re-think about the way that we think about the future (that's why foresight exercises are relevant) but to do so we need to have a strong analysis of what we had been doing so far (e.g.: study history)
I totally agree with you Wilson. But do not make the same mistake of throwing the baby out with the bathwater: as a futurist, like most of my colleagues, I anchor all my analyses in the deep and far past of our history (what we call macrohistory). We need to understand our past actions and their effects to be able to design and promote new courses of action, contributing to solve the many problems of our current and future every day reality if we don't act now. We are still on a continuing transforming path, and the Enlightenment of yesterday will seem dark age to the Enlighteners of tomorrow: as futurists, we work also to keep minds open to create better futures, precisely to solve these problems you mentioned.
A valuable resource: from the min.5.50 "Not a cultural expertise, but a social capacity...A civilisation ability...".
Burning Man has Ted Talks?
H.G. Wells was a professor of foresight.
Why is it shot at that angle though
The camera probably would've blocked the audience's view if it was at the same level as the man.
I understand this urge of TED speakers to always saying never before "no people at all" had made what they are doing or saying. Ok, it is part of show, but claim that last century there was no now trying to thinking about the future is too much for me. Last two centuries were all about how to emancipate humanity, which model fits better our needs and how to implement this model. The last two centuries are the history of the destruction of the tradition and implementation of the modernity, the implementation of the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. The main problems that we are facing todays is result of this logic of always looking ahead, think too much about the future and ignore our history and our every day reality (climate change, artificial scarcity, inequality, so on). For sure we need to re-think about the way that we think about the future (that's why foresight exercises are relevant) but to do so we need to have a strong analysis of what we had been doing so far (e.g.: study history)
I totally agree with you Wilson. But do not make the same mistake of throwing the baby out with the bathwater: as a futurist, like most of my colleagues, I anchor all my analyses in the deep and far past of our history (what we call macrohistory). We need to understand our past actions and their effects to be able to design and promote new courses of action, contributing to solve the many problems of our current and future every day reality if we don't act now. We are still on a continuing transforming path, and the Enlightenment of yesterday will seem dark age to the Enlighteners of tomorrow: as futurists, we work also to keep minds open to create better futures, precisely to solve these problems you mentioned.
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