Visions of futures and futures of visions: Entrepreneurs, artifacts, and worlds

Visions, hype and confusion: selling computing futures in institutional marketing

Declining student numbers in the Information Technology field has prompted considerable discussion amongst academics in the past two years. Several authors (Young (2005), McGettrick, et al. 2004) have explored likely contributing factors and identified strategies for improvement. Key to many of those strategies is a change in student perception of the value of a career in computing. The authors...

Sustainability, foresight and contested futures: exploring visions and pathways in the transition to a hydrogen economy

This paper reports an innovative foresighting study which aimed to construct a small number of credible hydrogen futures and pathways to them, in order to inform the prospective transition to a sustainable hydrogen economy. Combining backcasting and multi-criteria appraisal the authors developed a novel participatory expert stakeholder-led methodology to build and appraise a set of visions, whi...

Long-Term Housing Futures for Australia: Using ‘Foresight’ to Explore Alternative Visions and Choices

3d3c Real Virtual Worlds 2010: Definition and Visions for CIOs

The goal of this paper is to define the field of “Real Virtual Worlds,” and to reveal its potential through visions in virtual Physical Therapy, Schools, Concerts, Shopping and Races. It is my assumption that the field of Real Virtual Worlds is destined to become a major force in 5-10 years. Much like the Internet, Real Virtual Worlds, will change, enhance, but inevitably sometimes hamper how w...

Visions and Re-Visions of Charles Joseph Minard

Charles Joseph Minard is most widely known for a single work-his poignant flowmap depiction ofthe fate ofNapoleon's GrandArmy in the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. In fact, Minard was a true pioneer in thematic cartography and in statistical graphics; he developed many novel graphic forms to depict data, always with the goal to let the data "speak to the eyes." This article reviews Minard...