Working with the Future
eBook - ePub

Working with the Future

Ideas and Tools to Govern Uncertainty

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Working with the Future

Ideas and Tools to Govern Uncertainty

About this book

Poli's book is
  • Theoretically robust
  • Provides a description of some of the major methods in the field
  • Describes some major applications (army and government, schools)
  • Shows quite a few cases of re-framing
  • Suggests connections with present frontiers of scientific research
  • A systematic, engaging introduction to futures studies, that any well-educated person will be able to follow
  • Provides a framework for understanding the complexity and the uncertainty of the present situation
The book distinguishes correct from wrong ways to understand the future.

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Table of contents

  1. Copertina
  2. Frontespizio
  3. Copyright
  4. Indice
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Forecasting, Foresight, Anticipation
  7. 2. Megatrends and Explorations
  8. 3. Risk and Uncertainty
  9. 4. Complicated and Complex
  10. 5. Working with the Future
  11. 6. Future Methods and Exercises
  12. 7. Collective Intelligence and Military Tactics
  13. 8. The Ability to Aspire
  14. 9. Fragments of Anticipation
  15. 10. The Skills of the Futurists
  16. Learn more: a guide to (the study of) the future
  17. Bibliography