Letter: Foresight prevents blindness.

Letter-, Word- and Mind-Blindness

Blindness and the age of enlightenment: Diderot's letter on the blind.

Several months after anonymously publishing an essay in 1749 with the title "Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can See," the chief editor of the French Encyclopédie was arrested and taken to the prison fortress of Vincennes just east of Paris, France. The correctly assumed author, Denis Diderot, was 35 years old and had not yet left his imprint on the Age of Enlightenment. His letter...

Foresight in Organizational Relationships

Opal is an EC funded project (IST-2000-28295) designed to establish if and how a computer application may support team building and partnership. The project focuses on the early stages of interaction where rapid and robust assessments must be made of potential partners’ competence, compatibility and confidence in each others’ future performance. One of the aims of the project is to assess wheth...

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...

Foresight Cognitive Systems Project

The objective of the project is to examine recent progress in two major areas of research – computer science and neuroscience, and their related fields – and to understand whether progress in understanding cognition in living systems has new insights to offer those researching the construction of artificial cognitive systems.