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Homework: Imagining Future Scenarios
Background: Every human being has and uses foresight capacity to some degree. Future Studies/Foresight is a transdisciplinary field that has emerged to provide a more systematic consideration of how change could potentially unfold, and how we can work with it. In short, future studies are the systematic study of possible, probable, and preferable futures.
For this homework, we will consider potential future scenarios-with both positive and negative implications for business and society-and consider how these scenarios may provide threats and opportunities for future innovations in sustainability. Here is a link to a website developed by Richard Watson, a London-based futurist speaker and scenario thinker who helps organizations to think about emerging opportunities and risks.
Refer to the two specific high-resolution infographics that consider possible future trends.
Directions: Form in small groups and discuss two chosen trends/risks. Consider how these two trends would potentially have an influence on an industry of your choosing as well as the future of business and/or society. Answer the following questions and submit the saved document.
Task
Question I. What two trends did you select?
Question II. How will these two trends potentially impact your chosen industry? What opportunities or threats may be present? What innovations or pivots may be required to navigate the two trends that you chose?