How to study the future since the future does not exist as yet? There is indeed a one-way future that exists, and that is in our ideas and images. So, we do have some material to work on. In ancient Greek world, there was the oracle of Delphi but modern futures studies were born after WWII when world entered Cold War and the era of potential mass destruction. Futures studies institutes started to mushroom slowly around the world. Club of Rome, with its “Limits to Growth” report in 1972, was the first organization that commissioned study of the future of humankind by using global simulation models.
Later also the Millennium Project, under the UN, was established. Corporations became interested in using the scenario method in their strategic activities. Organizations and countries started to realize how important it is to prepare for very different kind of futures. In the course of the pandemic, we saw very clearly how some countries were very slow in reacting to new threats while others were much faster in reacting. Today, futures studies are beginning to be a standard academic discipline so, as field of research using specific tools and methods, future studies has come a long way.
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