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Stealing from the future (or how to destroy the planet in seven easy steps) |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Monday, 30 January 2006 |
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Parents in today's western societies are cheating their children by funding their own lifestyles from the future, says Ian Lowe, emeritus professor at Brisbane's Griffith University and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
In a powerful presentation to an international audience at the Global Mind, Global Soul, Global Action conference at Tamkang University in Taiwan, Professor Lowe emphasised that the future is not somewhere we are going, but something we are creating.
"There are many possible futures. We should be trying to establish a future that can be sustained, even if not for the four to five million years that the earth is expected to last. Not doing that is selling short our children by funding our lifestyles from the future." |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 31 January 2006 )
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Thursday, 05 January 2006 |
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WANT TO BE A PROFESSIONAL FUTURIST?
2006 Masters of Strategic Foresight course at Swinburne University "Strategic foresight will be a cornerstone of
organisational success in the early 21st century."
What is it?
Strategic foresight is the ability to create and maintain high-quality forward views and to use the insights that arise in organisationally useful ways. Organisations equipped with an effective foresight capability will be better able to understand, and respond to, emerging threats and opportunities.
Why is it significant?
Foresight can check and ‘refresh' strategy. Strategy seeks the best way to get from here to there. But what if ‘there' isn't where you really ought to be? Strategic foresight challenges assumptions that may be embedded in corporate cultures, brings into play a range of creative resources, methods, options and strategies that are otherwise untapped.
Who takes the Strategic Foresight Masters?
The program attracts people who have completed first degrees, who generally have a good deal of work experience and who are looking for an innovative 21st century specialisation. It appeals to those currently working in a range of forward-looking roles such as sustainability; strategy; triple bottom line implementation, measurement and reporting; corporate social responsibility; ethics; culture change; values consulting and foresight functions in public and private sector organisations. |
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Self and dissenting futures |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Wednesday, 23 November 2005 |
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"We should set limits to our innovation, our ingenuity and our technological expertise. I think it is the responsibility of future studies to find out what these limits should be."
Presentation by Ashis Nandy, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi at the Tamkang Conference on Global Soul, Global Mind, Global Action (Taiwan November 2005). Alternative visions and interpretations of the global soul/mind are crucial if we wish to engage in global action that does not reproduce yet another nightmare.
Most pressing is moving away from the discourse of universalism, as the dominant strand of universalism is grounded in a European worldview that accepts as absolute the superiority of the human, the masculine, the adult, the historical, and the modern/progressive over the non-human/sub-human, the feminine, the child, the ahistorical and the traditional/savage. Thus in present times, the dream of 'one world' has become a nightmare and a threat to the survival of non-modern/western cultures. It portends a homogenised, hierarchised world that is sharply categorised - into the modern and the primitive, the secular and the non-secular, the scientific and the unscientific, the normal and the abnormal, the developed and the underdeveloped, the vanguard and the led, the liberated and the salvable. |
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