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Aubrey Yee, John Sweeney and Gaming with the Future(s)

On October 19, 2012 By jose ramos
Gaming with the Future(s) is one of the most interesting research projects I’ve come across in a long time. The research will involve an “experiential scenario-based game”  in which players will weave their way through the streets of Honolulu engaging in four alternative futures. The research is fundamentally about power, and in this to understand ”how [...]
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Introducing Shermon O. Cruz and the Center for Engaged Foresight

On September 18, 2012 By jose ramos
I met Shermon O. Cruz through my capacity as the consulting editor for the Journal of Futures Studies. He wrote an excellent article on the futures of liberal arts, something of keen interest to me, my B.A. was in comparative literature. I’ve been horrified in Australia over the past decade to see one liberal arts [...]
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Futures of Work

On August 29, 2012 By jose ramos
Together with colleagues Gareth Priday and Tim Mansfield, I’ve embarked on a rather novel journey into the frontiers of foresight, combining open participatory web technologies with conversations and explorations of the futures. Its called the foresight epidemic. Our fearless leader, Gareth Priday, is leading us into round 2 on an exploration of the Futures of [...]
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Why Futures Studies: An Interview with Jim Dator

On July 16, 2012 By jose ramos
Why Futures Studies? An Interview with Jim Dator from Jose Ramos on Vimeo. I had heard so many things about Dr. Jim Dator, professor of political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The ‘father of futures studies in north america’, one of the ‘pillars and inventors of the field’, that it felt intimidating [...]
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Venessa Miemis: Open Foresight and the Future of Facebook

On March 18, 2012 By jose ramos
This is the third interview in this series on foresight in the network era. Venessa Miemis is one of the originators of the Open Foresight concept. In some regards it is a re-iteration of an older idea, Anticipatory Democracy, developed by Clement Bezold, Alvin Toffler and others, but the deliberative and generative nature of the anticipation is squarely [...]
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Jake Dunagan: The Institute for the Future and Gamification for Social Foresight

On March 10, 2012 By jose ramos
This is the second part in a series on network based approaches to foresight. I was fortunate to catch up with colleague Jake Dunagan, director of research at the Institute for the Future (IFTF). IFTF is doing absolutely remarkable work bringing together social media, gaming, and foresight (among many other things). Significant is IFTF’s social focus, [...]
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Elina Hiltunen: Finpro and Crowdsourcing Foresight

On March 1, 2012 By jose ramos
This is the first in a series of interviews with futurists using state of the art network based approaches to foresight work. Network based approaches can be seen as those which utilize ICT technologies together with collaborative cultural frameworks (e.g. peer to peer) to co-generate futures thinking, strategy and policy. In this first part, I [...]
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Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution: a discussion with Michel Bauwens Part III

On February 25, 2012 By jose ramos
This is part three, and the last segment, of this series. In this final and short response to questions about the future, Bauwen’s discusses two possible futures for the development of peer to peer society globally, the ‘High Road’ and ‘Low Road’.  
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Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution: a discussion with Michel Bauwens Part II

On February 21, 2012 By jose ramos
This is part II of Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution, a discussion with Michel Bauwens, founder of the The Foundation for P2P Alternatives. How does Occupy Wall Street prefigure wider changes? Bauwens talks about the failings of the current system: artificial scarcity and ecological crisis. Peer production prefigures a way of life which is based on sharing [...]
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Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution: a discussion with Michel Bauwens Part I

On February 18, 2012 By jose ramos
Michel Bauwens, founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives , talks about Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy movement as an example of peer production. I was fortunate to catch up with friend and colleague Michel Bauwens in Chiang Mai in Nov. of 2011. It was truly inspiring to be with Michel, who I consider one of the most brilliant [...]
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    • The Wind Dragon: a Chinese tale of wind power June 4, 2012
      by Fabrizio Bozzato Because of the hectic pace of China’s economic and social development, Chinese energy demand will continue to grow rapidly in next 40 years. Beijing appears determined to pursue a low-carbon development strategy, and wind energy is going … Continue reading → […]
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    • U.S.-China Ten Year Framework for Energy and Environment Cooperation April 14, 2012
      Washington, DC – The United States and the People’s Republic of China held the 8th Joint Working Group Meeting of the U.S.-China Ten Year Framework (TYF) for Energy and Environment Cooperation April 9-10 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant … Continue reading → […]
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    • Reflection – The Future of Cities in the Asia-Pacific January 22, 2013
      Well, Happy New Year! I have to admit, I’ve delayed posting this reflection because I wasn’t sure we’d make it to a new b’ak’tun and what would have been the point? But I’m glad we’re all here, safe and sound. The … Continue reading → […]
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    • Reflections – The futures of Childhood Education December 11, 2012
      We’ve been away a while haven’t we? We’re also couple of reflections behind, this one will cover the Futures of Childhood Education and Tim will post one up for the Future of Cities. Then we’re going to take a break … Continue reading → […]
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