Future Scenarios
Future Scenarios
“We cannot create what we can’t imagine.” – Lucille Clifton
It can be hard to imagine the future. To get you started, here are some scenarios based on future trends gleaned from the Long View Interviews. Picture lifelong AI-powered tutors, the end of personal cars, societies unconstrained by energy and more. Are these dreams you hope to manifest? Are they nightmares you wish to avoid? These scenarios are challenges to engage your imagination and can be used in stakeholder discussions and classrooms to ponder how we can take action now to prepare for or alter what is to come.
These scenarios can be used as prompts for discussion, creative writing, or other projects engaging various audiences. We have collaborated with NC State University Theatre to offer one-day script-writing intensives based on our future scenarios, and they have also been used by Cli-Fi Imaginarium, a writing group imagining bold thriving within planetary boundaries. Contact us at [email protected] if you would like to collaborate on a project.
