Comments on: Thinking about long-term futures

By: Utopias and six generations | thenextwave

Utopias and six generations | thenextwave — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:20:55 +0000

[…] years and back six generations,” and therefore links to a couple of my previous posts on here: on six (or seven) generations, and on looking forward a hundred […]

By: Learning from long-term futures « thenextwave

Learning from long-term futures « thenextwave — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:48:59 +0000

[…] written here before about longer-term futures and how we think about them. Over the past year or so I have beem fortunate to work on a series of […]

By: Jonathan Roe

Jonathan Roe — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:01:52 +0000

I am interested in the 7th generation idea. I think Chris Wood was looking at Clare and then counting on 7 generations to look at what 7 generations of disconnection with the common land has created … a sense of total (perfect – 7) disconnection. Have you any further leads on this?

By: The 1910 time traveller « thenextwave

The 1910 time traveller « thenextwave — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:59:51 +0000

[…] done a number of 100-year scenarios recently, and in the spirit of Elise Boulding’s ‘200 year present‘ – 100 years back, 100 years forward – we’ve used the notion of the 1910 […]

By: Notes on the volcano « thenextwave

Notes on the volcano « thenextwave — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:13:46 +0000

[…] this is about scales of change. In The Clock of the Long Now Stewart Brand has a useful model, adapted from Freeman Dyson, of the ‘six pace layers’ of change, running from media and […]

By: General Motors and the 200-year company « thenextwave

General Motors and the 200-year company « thenextwave — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:44:40 +0000

[…] written here before about the future of the organisation and also about ways of thinking about long-term futures. These two themes have been brought together for me by some of the discussion about the collapse of […]

By: Bringing it all back home « thenextwave

Bringing it all back home « thenextwave — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:16:11 +0000

[…] other effects) ,but whose most recent work has been with The Imagined Village, a band I mentioned in passing a few months back. The Imagined Village project – about to set out on the summer festival trail – […]