Waterkant Festival2d ago

Who Gets to Decide About the Future? 🌱
// Baro Vicenta Ra Gabbert – Lawyer, Author & Spokesperson for Socio-Ecological Justice, Greenpeace Germany
Lawyer. Author. Founder of the Climate Clinic. Expert advisor on intergenerational justice. SPIEGEL's "Bearer of Hope 2025".

// At #Waterkant26, Baro brings together reading, talk and discussion: What does it mean to speak & decide about the future – because "No Future Is Not a Solution".

18 – 19 June 2026 // Waterkant Festival - MFG5 Kiel // GET YOUR TICKETS NOW.

#climatejustice #intergenerationalequity #greenpeace #futuresthinking

jessa3d ago

Station Eleven (by Emily St. John Mandel)

I first wrote about Station Eleven in an earlier post, and even then, I already knew it was the kind of book that doesn't leave you easily. But reading it two years into a real pandemic changed something about the experience. The dystopia Mandel imagined is far worse than what we lived through, and yet the emotional texture of it felt achingly close. Real close. Like she had somehow already been to a place we were only beginning to understand. The book follows multiple timelines—before […]

https://jessa.blog/2026/03/23/station-eleven-by-emily-st-john-mandel-2/

Station Eleven (by Emily St. John Mandel)

I first wrote about Station Eleven in an earlier post, and even then, I already knew it was the kind of book that doesn’t leave you easily. But reading it two years into a real pandemic chang…

jessa
jessa4d ago

Snow Crash (by Neal Stephenson)

I picked up Snow Crash because of an excerpt we read during a Scenario Club Meetup at the Urgent Optimists, and honestly, that one excerpt was enough to make me want the whole thing. The book is set in a near-future America where the physical world and a virtual one called the Metaverse exist side by side, and people move between them almost without thinking. Reading it, I kept pausing not because the story was slow, but because it felt uncomfortably familiar. Like Stephenson had written a […]

https://jessa.blog/2026/03/22/snow-crash-by-neal-stephenson-2/

Snow Crash (by Neal Stephenson)

I picked up Snow Crash because of an excerpt we read during a Scenario Club Meetup at the Urgent Optimists, and honestly, that one excerpt was enough to make me want the whole thing. The book is se…

jessa
Show threadStrategicForesightFeb 8

This helps you react faster when things change, without overcomplicating things.

#StrategicForesight #FuturesThinking #QuickWins #StrategicThinking #ScenarioStrategy #DecisionAgility #ExecutiveLeadership #BusinessGrowth #FastTrack #ImmediateResults (3/3)

Show threadStrategicForesightAug 27, 2025

Tip: Keep it simple. Don't make more than four boxes on your grid.
Example: A tech company tracked new law drafts this way and moved faster.

Why Try It:
This method helps you decide faster and get better at adapting.

#Strategy #DecisionMaking #Leadership
#StrategicForesight #QuickStrategy #Business #Agility #QuickWins
#StrategicPlanning #FuturesThinking #StrategicAdaptation #ScenarioPlanning #ImmediateResults (2/2)

Harald KlinkeJul 14, 2025
The @cfg-thinktank.bsky.social outlines five scenarios for how the AI transition might unfold: from technical stagnation to rapid self-improvement, from international diplomacy to geopolitical arms race. #AIgovernance #FuturesThinking #TechPolicy Read: cfg.eu/advanced-ai-...
Harald KlinkeJul 14, 2025

Possible futures of advanced AI – from plateau to take-off

The centre for future generations outlines five scenarios for how the AI transition might unfold: from technical stagnation to rapid self-improvement, from international diplomacy to geopolitical arms race.

The scenarios serve as stress tests for policy: to prepare, not predict.

#AIgovernance #FuturesThinking #TechPolicy
https://cfg.eu/advanced-ai-possible-futures/

Suzanne WhitbyJun 23, 2025

#FuturesThinking To what extent can Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a role in supporting climate action while boosting sustainable and inclusive economic growth?

This paper in #Nature proposes 5 uses that can make shift happen:

→ https://suzwhi.com/naturecc01

#climateaction

Thomas Ekman JorgensenJun 5, 2025

Thinking a lot about the future of #HigherEd, this is an important signal: a cancelled course being continued outside the context of the university:

"They can try to cancel us all they want. But this is the community we are going to build anyway."

Is the future of #AcademicFreedom an 'invisible college'?

#FuturesThinking #academia

https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-canceled-my-course-on-race

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.

This is not the time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah
Thomas Ekman JorgensenJun 4, 2025

#sustainability action requires a vision - example from #HES-SO in Western Switzerland how to apply #FuturesThinking for that vision:

"Universities, including my own, tend to report on this standard by describing existing strategies and actions without always explaining the vision of the future to which these commitments belong, nor the scenario to which they intend to contribute."

https://www.eua.eu/our-work/expert-voices/can-you-really-assess-a-universitys-commitment-to-sustainability.html

#HigherEd