Innovating Responses to Crisis: Exploring the Principle of Non-Action as a Foresight Tool
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Technological innovation and private entrepreneurship are 'change-makers' increasingly counted upon to avert social and environmental crisis. However, as crisis deepens into the possibility of catastrophe, given the likes of resource wars and climate change, the quest for solutions is morphing into a requirement for near-salvation. The situation is an odd one. Messianic hopes are being invested in change-makers that are specialists at embracing the bulk of business-as-usual practices while Abstract
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