Futures Discovery is
a research portal that finds hot spots in
thinking about global futures and tries to distinguish influential
factors of rapid, positive change. FD encourages systemic,
non-linear approaches to planning and believes that effective
thinking about the future is enhanced by applying newly emerging
technology. Therefore, FD strives to be an agent of change by
introducing intellectual frameworks & tool-sets for
understanding the transition in which we are
living.
FD
believes that we are living in an era of global transition, to a
degree that our species has never seen before. The exponential
increase of human knowledge, and the acceleration of its application
through technology, is propelling humanity towards a new era of
thought and endeavor.
Society, science, ecology and commerce are converging at the
intersection of danger and opportunity. A complexity and
unpredictability that is beyond our past experience characterize the
challenges at hand. If humanity's preferred future is to be
realized, new tools for strategic planning and problem solving must
be invented and combined. We must think
differently.