Foresight: Volume 15 Issue 5

Water: how collective intelligence initiatives can address this challenge

Tony Diggle

– The purpose is to examine how collective intelligence initiatives can help address the challenge of water supply globally.

Thinking oriented towards the future – key to prosperity and sustainable development?

Pavel Novácek

The aim of this paper is to discuss key factors of long-term (sustainable) development and prosperity. There are three basic guidelines that seek explanation: dependence…

Scenario planning with integrated quantification – managing uncertainty in corporate strategy building

Sven Hirsch, Paul Burggraf, Cornelia Daheim

This paper makes a case for the benefits of quantified scenarios as a foresight tool for strategic planning. First it aims to set the context of quantification approaches…

Foresight of evolving security threats posed by emerging technologies

Aharon Hauptman, Yair Sharan

Many emerging technologies are being developed in an accelerating pace and are key drivers of future change. In foresight studies, usually their positive impact on the…

Through the megacrisis: the passage to global maturity

William Halal

The paper aims to give an evolutionary perspective and “collective intelligence” methods to help understand how the world could make the passage through today's “global…

The future role of logistics for global wealth – scenarios and discontinuities until 2025

Heiko A. von der Gracht, Inga-Lena Darkow

The aim is to present research results on global logistics scenarios 2025 with focus on the future contribution the logistics industry can make to the triple bottom line �…

Radical Abundance: How a Revolution In Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

José Cordeiro

The Millennium Project and beyond

Jose Luis Cordeiro