Category: The future of ________
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The blog post title is based on the IFTF Newsletter: Foresight Moves Us to Make Good Choices(Issue #21 | June 2, 2026). I was in kindergarten when I first visited a Coca-Cola factory in Davao City. The plant tour was part of our educational trip. I can’t remember the technical details, but I still remember…
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The blog post title is based on the IFTF Newsletter: Foresight Moves Us to Make Good Choices (Issue #21 | June 2, 2026). Since grade school, we have scheduled earthquake drills every year to ensure that we know what to do during and after an earthquake. The last time I participated in one was in November…
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In my previous post, I shared with you a chapter from The Ministry for the Future, which describes a world where the War for the Earth is raging. And why was there a war for the earth? Because the extreme weather events (like heatwaves) are amplifying the gap between the rich and the poor, with…
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Can you imagine a world where the carbon-intensive activities and resources are terrorized to the point of killing thousands of people, business people, innocent people nonetheless? Read this chapter from The Minsitry for the Future, in a world where the War for the Earth is raging. The thirties were zombie years. Civilization had been killed…
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Would you trust an AI-written product review?
1–2 minutesBefore purchasing products, do you read product reviews first? What if the product reviews you have been reading, the ones you’ve been trusting and actually based your purchases on, weren’t written by people who used the products but by AI? And according to a 2025 study, you wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference.…
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I really find AI tools empowering, enabling me to perform tasks and produce better results than I would on my own. As Ethan Mollick puts it: Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience The Cybernetic Teammate But like in this TED Talk, Mark Hoffman compares artificial intelligence…
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I first heard about solar geoengineering from one of the futures scenarios at the Urgent Optimists, where we were tasked to imagine waking up to a future where every day is winter after some governing body implemented a solar geoengineering program. Then, I read about it from The Ministry of the Future (a climate fiction…