By: Alireza Hejazi

Thinking about the futures requires a personal awareness at the first step. While we are engaged too much with our daily and usual activities (even apparently scientific ones), how can we really think more than today, for tomorrow? Most of the times, people are not conscious with their own personal futuristic abilities and capacities. This is that they refer to others' perspectives and thoughts on futures or imitate great thinkers' ideas. Normally such persons disregard their own preferred ideas on futures or try to assimilate their thoughts to others' opinions.

They do not know how enjoyable the felling of independent thinking can be. They may have a great deal of experience in studying futures studies great works (articles & books), but they rarely have personal knowledge on their own pattern of futuristic thinking. The reality is that every one has his or her own pattern of thinking when he or she thinks about future. They may never elaborate their ideas on the most personal aspects of life such as life style, marriage, intimacies, job and etc. These kinds of people usually use other well-known persons' phrases and words when they want to talk about their lives.

Offering new copies of past works may seem sometimes good, but it is not always a recommended way of impressing others. The independent works and originally new ones have more attractiveness than new copied ones. This has more importance when you are offering a scientific job. For instance, when you are making a map of future science and technology discovering new trends, events, challenges and remarking wild cards, it is very important that your work seems new at least to those guys who have been monitoring scientific and technological trends within recent years. Surely there are some natural similarities among similar works when they are in the same field of study. But when you have studied a monograph on what is ahead in next 50 years and after a few months you receive a colored and graphic map of it, it may not attract your attention as it should. In such cases you rapidly recall what you had studied some weeks or months ago. I admire any kind of effort made in the way of promoting futures knowledge, but personally I prefer new ones.

In my point of view the lack of new produced content can be a major factor, but it can not be regarded as a reason for offering repeated works. The thirst of people for new ideas and topics especially when they are working in scientific fields can not be neglected. When we become accustomed to making new copies of past works, we gradually miss our clients and customers. This should be taken very serious when we are making money with our knowledge and expertise. Even a successful business plan does not let us perform our programs in a defective manner leading to scatter our users and consumers.

So what should we do if we want to keep powerful our competency among different competitors who are all offering futuristic items? I think the answer is laid in the first sentence of this note: personal awareness. Through personal awareness we recognize our inherent abilities. When we know our own futuristic capacities, we will put our efforts in the line of duty and making them more fruitful. The tree of our futuristic thinking can bear new fruits even kinds that we may have never known before. Harvesting new fruits from the tree of personal futuristic thinking changes our past imitated behavior into a new one that can be called independent futuristic thinking. The independent futuristic thinking is a way towards innovation in the field of futures studies and also an enjoyable experience. Try it and lets have a new world of new branded futuristic ideas and opinions.