Foresight: Foresight Somewhere in the Expanse between Futures and Technology Assessment

Cognitive Sciences Strategies for Futures Studies (Foresight)

Abstract: It seems before understanding the mind structure and laws governing the process of perception, we’ve gone into the application of science to build better futures. This is because the science begins with attitude not the reality.The major goal of this study is to identify qualitative relationships among key variables across of Cognitive Sciences (CS) with Futures Studies (FS).Ideas and...

Foresight, Technology Assessment and Evaluation - Synergy or Disjunction?

The series constitute ‘ideas in progress,’ after the notion described by I.J. Good in ‘The Scientist Speculates.’ Good also describes ideas about ideas as ‘partly baked ideas’ believing that “ ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right.” While the papers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may...

A Challenging Conversation on Integral Futures: Embodied Foresight & Trialogues

Constructing futures ; a social constructionist perspective on foresight methodology

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between a particular epistemological perspective and foresight methodology. We draw on a body of social theory concerned with the way that meaning is produced and assimilated by society; specifically, the social construction of knowledge, which is distinguished from its near-neighbour constructivism by its focus on inter-subjectivity. We ...

Emergence in the Foresight

The aim of this paper to present some items of emergence in the foresight that should be meant and handled scientifically. It highlights three resources of social emergence. One of them is originated from the development of shared future views at a community level from the individual future shapes. The second one is originated from the relations among the foresight and its social environment an...