Futures Thinking
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Urban heat island effect
There are days when I miss the cool of my hometown. It isn’t even summer here in the metro, but the urban heat is often too much to bear (much worse during the summer), affecting my productivity and engagement. Data shows that it will only get worse. As global temperature rise, urban residents may experience… Read more
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Work skills you need before 2030
Navigating our careers through changing times could be daunting, especially when we go through it clueless. And if we do not prepare ourselves while we can, we become reactive to whatever is going on. We might flail our way to survival, but it wouldn’t be so when we know what to expect. The Institute for… Read more
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Biosphere collapse, avoidance, and narcissism
When things are going well, it’s kind of challenging to imagine what it’s like to be in a world where everything seems to be falling apart. But with global catastrophic events increasing over time due to climate change, one could wonder what it would be like when systems are on the brink of collapse. Here’s… Read more
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Are people above sixty-five really “passive” these days?
If you’re wondering where the concept of life stages learn, work, and retire (in order) came from, here’s a passage from my recent read: When the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck implemented the first national old-age social insurance plan, he was attempting to “domesticate” the working class by offering them something to look forward to.… Read more
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Are you ready for a world in which you can’t trust what you read, see, and hear?
You probably heard the buzz words like fake news and post-truth. And living in a world where truth could be proclaimed a lie, and lie screamed as the truth, how can we trust everything we interact with? The Institute for the Future identified seven future forces reshaping our familiar building blocks of trust and a map… Read more
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Road to Zerophoria: Journal entries from 2033
Are you ready for a world where “zero waste” is the new normal? If you want to imagine what it’s like, travel with me from the future! Here’s a curated list of my journal entries from 2033, living in a zero-waste future. Read more
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Road to Zerophoria: Journal entry from the future #10
I am spending 10 days in the future, and this is what my daily life like in the year 2033, where zero-waste laws are strictly enforced, and no one comes to pick up the trash anymore. You can read more about this imagined future scenario here. Traveling in 2033, you’d usually see road signs as… Read more
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