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SWR1 Leute – How We Can Shape the Future!
Future studies, right up until the industrial age, were primarily driven by trends and probabilities – the task was to adapt and integrate. The new era of Digitality (digital + reality), however, opens up an entirely different approach: one based on possibilities, rather than probabilities. Max represents this new school of futures thinking. He demonstrates how we can rethink the way we view the world – letting...
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New Book – Now Available: From Coal to AI. From AI to Coal.
How the Future Shapes Our Lives – and How Our Lives Shape the Future. 64 pages in a pocket-sized format. That’s all it takes to explain the possibilities of the future—and how we can shape them. Or as Max puts it: “Sure, you could write 640 pages on the topic. But my idea was to create a book that everyone can carry in their...
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What makes a futurologist different from a future-researcher?
What is a Futurologist? Futurologists are not the same as future researchers!Future researchers try to predict the future using data, statistics, and forecasting models. Futurologists, on the other hand, come from practice and include far more parameters in their considerations. They analyze which narratives have shaped past developments and why. They compare this with current societal culture and geopolitical dynamics—and instead of probabilities, they analyze possibilities. In other words, they explore how we can actively shape the...
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Keynote: The future lives differently!
Do you still live in the present or already in the future? How will we live in the future, how are we mobile, how will urban and rural structures develop, whole regions and the habits of the people living there? Yes, how will we live? How will our life, our education and our everyday life be structured? Co-Working has become a kind of fashion....
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Keynote: The 17 areas of life in our future – and how they will change our lives.
When we talk about the future, we often talk about how everyday life will change. That means: on the one hand, we “only” have the new technology, but it will be used in all areas of our lives. So not only in our everyday life, in our profession or in individual areas, but in all 17 areas of life at the same time. This...
