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Generative AI in the Newsroom: The Future of Media and News
This article includes insights and learnings from an applied workshop that I led with a group of European journalists in national public...
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Dec 31, 202313 min read


9 Steps to Plan and Write Your Novel
One of the best ways to share new ideas into the world is to write a novel. Why is that? Humans are wired for story. That is how we learn...
Beth Barany
Dec 31, 20236 min read


Questioning Our Assumptions About the Future of AI
Today, we work with many different forms of artificial intelligence, a number of which are relatively new. Some are almost mundane in...
Richard Yonck
Dec 30, 202310 min read


The Future of the Future
A university in the United Kingdom recently asked its students to write essays on whether the future was open or closed -- an open future...
Richard Watson and Oliver Freeman
Dec 30, 20236 min read


Perspectives on Narratives, And The Future of Personal and Systems Transformation - 2
Discerning & reframing narratives are fundamental to anticipation, particularly while navigating environmental and internal priorities.

Ashish Manwar
Dec 21, 20235 min read


A NEW BEGINNING FOR HUMANITY
Once the red light came on announcing that the portal was opened, I decided to take my coloring pencils and my sheets of paper to try to...
Jean Paul Pinto
Dec 21, 20238 min read


WELCOME TO PLASTICINE
[Excerpt of notes from my journal visiting 2673. The future beings were opposed to allowing technical devices like cameras or phones for...
Jeremy Wilken
Dec 21, 20234 min read


EVERYTHING IS FINE NOW
"So, what was my first feeling when I stepped out of the capsule?" "Yes, that's what I asked," the man on the other side of the table...
Elina Hiltunen
Dec 21, 20239 min read


COME BACK SOON
The following is a transcription of audio received during the World Futures Exploration Project expedition to the year 2823. Audio...
Emily Mudge
Dec 21, 20236 min read


ADVENT HOPE
Personal Reflections UN Special Mission: 2923 Day 1 “Remember to watch for hope.” The Director’s parting words echoed in my ears. In...
Nicci Obert
Dec 21, 20236 min read


TT20 LOG ExTRACTS
These TT log extracts are reprinted with permission of TT20, who has returned to their starting point seemingly of sound mind. TT20 001...
Maya Van Leemput
Dec 21, 20236 min read


NECROBELISK / CHANGEOVERS™ DIRECT MARKET RESEARCH
For me, the year 3523 means one thing: work. My company spends huge amounts to send market researchers ahead to strategically coordinated...
Julai Whipple
Dec 21, 20236 min read


THE CONTINUITY
Dear friends: This letter is an attempt to share a glimpse into the future and the lives our descendants will lead. I hope it also will...
Karessa Torgerson
Dec 21, 20235 min read


ADORNMENT THEORY
Of course, they were waiting for me. We knew I'd be a historical figure. I figured after two hundred fifty years, there'd be a huge...
Karl Schroeder
Dec 21, 20237 min read


Olive AND FIG
Olive stands in a gigantic sterile white room. The letters UN are stenciled in blue on each wall. A speaker bellows out: “Temporal...
John Threat
Dec 21, 20238 min read


THE GREAT EMPATHY CRISIS OF 2373
We rematerialized quite dramatically in the well of the United Nations Security Council. The terrible itch that was said to come with...
Luke B. Tay
Dec 21, 20236 min read


NICE ENOUGH BLOKE
YEAR: 2450 LOCATION: THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS Proceedings of the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands. Case Number:...
Ben Holt
Dec 21, 20236 min read


HARMONIC HORIzONS: THE VENTAURI REVELATION
As the chosen emissaries of Earth, Dr. Hana Abdulla and I stood before the pulsating portal, our passageway to a distant civilization...
Asma Yousaf Zainul
Dec 21, 20233 min read


#WASTE-FREE
Excerpt from Personal Log: Champa Dale Date: 17 May 2152 Location: To be confirmed Demographics: 34, Female, South African Occupation:...
Samista Jugwanth
Dec 21, 20236 min read


A LETTER FROM THE FAR SIDE: CHINA'S FUTURE
Date: 4 May 2023, NASA headquarter, Washington “We have returned to the year 2023, ladies and gentlemen. It is 01:23 in this time zone...
Mohammed Mazloum Hanafy
Dec 21, 20236 min read
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