2. “FUTURISM IS AN ART OF REPERCEPTION. IT MEANS
RECOGNIZING THAT LIFE WILL CHANGE, MUST CHANGE,
AND HAS CHANGED, AND IT SUGGESTS HOW AND WHY.
IT SHOWS THAT OLD PERCEPTIONS HAVE LOST THEIR
VALIDITY, WHILE NEW ONES ARE POSSIBLE.”.
Bruce Sterling, science fiction writer
15. “THE RISE AND FALL OF IMAGES OF THE FUTURE PRECEDES OR
ACCOMPANIES THE RISE AND FALL OF CULTURES. AS LONG AS
A SOCIETY'S IMAGE OF THE FUTURE IS POSITIVE AND
FLOURISHING, THE FLOWER OF THE CULTURE IS IN FULL
BLOSSOM. ONCE THE IMAGE OF THE FUTURE BEGINS TO
DECAY AND LOSE ITS VITALITY, HOWEVER, THE CULTURE
CANNOT LONG SURVIVE.”
Frederich L. Polak: The Image of the Future 1961
16. “…UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF THE FUTURE AND
THE ROLE IT PLAYS IN WHAT WE SEE AND DO. EVIDENCE
SHOWS THAT PEOPLE CAN CHANGE HOW AND WHY THEY
THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE. DEVELOPING THIS CAPACITY
TO IMAGINE CAN BE A POWERFUL TOOL FOR CATALYSING
CHANGE TODAY.”
Riel Miller: Transforming the Future
17. “THE PURPOSE OF FUTURISM IS TO DISTURB THE
PRESENT.”
Gaston Berger – who set up the first futures practice in Paris
“WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH THE SCENARIOS IS TO GET
THE EXECUTIVES TO READ THEIR NEWSPAPERS
DIFFERENTLY.”
Pierre Wack
18. Hichert & Associates
The future does not exist in the present but anticipation does. The form the future takes
in the present is anticipation.
19. Hichert & Associates
TRANSFORMATIONAL SOCIETY
The end of current forms of behaviour, beliefs, norms, or organization, and the
emergence of new forms (rather than a return to older or traditional ones)
Two main sub-variants:
‘high-tech’ (technological) and
‘high-spirit’ (spiritual / consciousness) transformation.
And interesting ‘hybrids’ of these: trans/post-humanism