Assignment: Imagining Future Scenarios

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Background: Every human being has and uses foresight capacity to some degree. Future Studies/Foresight is a transdisciplinary field that has emerged to provide a more systematic consideration of how change could potentially unfold, and how we can work with it. In short, future studies is the systematic study of possible, probable, and preferable futures.

For this assignment, we will consider potential future scenarios—with both positive and negative implications for business and society—and consider how these scenarios may provide threats and opportunities for future innovations in sustainability. Here is a link to a website developed by Richard Watson, a London-based futurist speaker and scenario thinker who helps organizations to think about emerging opportunities and risks. https://nowandnext.com/thinking-tools/ Links to an external site.

Please refer to the following links to two specific high-resolution infographics that consider possible future trends. These images are also embedded in the text below.

https://nowandnext.com/PDF/Mega%20Trends%20and%20Technologies%202017-2050%20(Web).png Links to an external site.

https://nowandnext.com/PDF/Table%20of%20Disruptive%20Technologies.png Links to an external site.

Directions: Form in small groups and discuss two chosen trends/risks. Consider how these two trends would potentially have an influence on an industry of your choosing as well as the future of business and/or society. Answer the following questions and submit the saved document.

Questions:

What two trends did you select?

How will these two trends potentially impact your chosen industry? What opportunities or threats may be present? What innovations or pivots may be required to navigate the two trends that you chose.