IAF has developed Primary Care 2025: A Scenario Exploration, a set of scenarios describing the alternative futures of primary care in the U.S. in the year 2025. These scenarios consider the nation’s economic challenges, political polarization, and opportunities afforded by disruptive technological advances and new delivery systems. The report includes implications and recommendations based on the scenarios, developed at a National Workshop of leaders. The scenarios help organizations, associations, and communities to gain greater understanding of the challenges facing primary care as well as the options we may have in the years to come.
Source: altfutures.org
Stowe Boyd: Audi Urban Future Initiative
THE AUDI URBAN FUTURE INITIATIVE IN NEW YORK, 6TH TO 9TH MAY 2011
The results of the Audi Urban Future Award 2010 were first presented parallel to the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2010 in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia within a walk-through architectural environment…
Source: audi-urban-future-initiative.com
“Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development,” a new report, features four very different—yet very plausible—visions of how technology could profoundly alter how we address some of the most pressing challenges in the developing world.
Source: rockefellerfoundation.org
Gwynne Dyer: Four harsh truths about climate change | Straight.com
As some of you know Gwynne Dyer is one of my favourite writers who often formulates things I have been thinking about. Even if the thinking isn’t new it is really clear here! A must read!
Food will be the key issue as temperatures rise more quickly than expected
Leading through uncertainty - The McKinsey Quarterly - Leading through uncertainty - Strategy - Strategic Thinking
A whole issue of McKinsey Quarterly about crisis management and of course scenario planning.
Imagining the Google Future - January 01, 2006
Vahid V Motlagh reminded me of these four scenarios Business 2.0 wrote on the future of Google. I wrote about it somewhere then but don’t remember if it was online or not.
