Foresight Reports

Futurist consultants who work with client organizations are typically outsiders, who may bring subjectivity to their foresight work but also less expertise in the client’s industry than insiders possess. Challenges include recognizing internal competing constituencies, engaging participants across departmental silos, building stakeholder networks, and overcoming an issue many consultants face of clients’ expectation not just to advise but also to implement strategies based on the foresight work. By Timothy C. Mack

Abstract: This report considers the use of financial gain as incentive to accelerate sustainable approaches and the promotion and development of sustainability as a whole, including ecosystem preservation and climate-change mitigation. This approach has already yielded success in accelerating renewable energy generation and storage, as there had been little progress until costs dropped to the point of being the best solution financially. Here, we examine the particulars of this financially driven renewables success story, which enables us to collect and ideate similar approaches and technologies for ecosystem rejuvenation and sustainability. By Dennis M. Bushnell

Abstract: Society now faces many major, even existential, issues that threaten our future. At the same time that accelerating changes are converging to create enormous potential problems, prospective synergistic solution spaces are emerging that offer strategies—and hope—for the human future. By Dennis M. Bushnell

ABSTRACT: The tensions between privacy and security and between distrust of government and fear of hackers may not be relieved soon, but advancing technologies for digital identification and data storage make the possibility of national identity cards increasingly imminent. Potential benefits could include reduced fraud in tax and voting systems, but the “killer app” for a national ID card would be a solution for immigration reform. By Dr. Karl Albrecht