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Ursula Eysin on Uncertainty and Future Scenarios

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What Is Futurism and How Do You Define It?

I do not consider myself a futurist and when I talked in the beginning with Karl Roser he said actually you know what futurist he's a futurists understand what I am doing the least. What I do it's called future scenario thinking of future scenario planning as mentioned invented by the US Air Force then famously adapted by Royal Dutch Shell for business usage. It is actually not about trying to predict the future and it's also not about calculating the future because that's also a quite powerless position for this. That probably in half a day now perhaps we should start talking about futurism here a little bit more specifically so let's start with and we kind of started backwards because

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