How to predict the future | The TED Interview
Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi
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What Is the Long Term Impact of Future's Thinking?
Jane mc gonigal: What is the long term impact of future's thinking? When, when people imagine the world ten years out, does it really change how they experence the next decade, the actions they take? There is not a lot of good longitudinal research on this, and it's really hard to get funding to study. The other thing i wanted to say is, there's an ethical issue, a kind of outstanding ethical question, which stems from something we know from he research literature. And that means that being a future forecaster, somebody designing scenarios, there is a sort of ethical dilemma in that people will believe that whatever world i've imagined is more likely.
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