Earthscan has published a thought-provoking book entitled Foresight in Action: Developing Policy-Oriented Scenarios which attempts to answer the question: how do experts assess the future? The authors report on their study of Dutch futurists who serve public policy clients. The book is part of the ‘Risk in Society’ series, which features the likes of Paul …
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What is ‘new’ about ‘foresight’?
Prominent areas of emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology often get accused of essentially being “old wine in new bottles” – that is, of repackaging an old product as a new one, or more crudely put as just being spin (empty marketing terms). In contrast, others contend that something significantly new is happening which …