"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
~ Leonard I. Sweet
Welcome to Designing the Future,
The newsletter about emerging trends and how to leverage them today.
In this newsletter, we aim to share:
an introduction to our newsletter
what you can expect of this newsletter
How to stay up to date
Introducing ‘Designing the Future‘
The daily news is filled with negative and horrific stories. Consequences of climate change, covid pandemics, social exclusion, racism, economic crisis, the oppression of women, and much much more.
All of this news shatters the positive images that people have of the future. This can create massive problems. Without images of the future that inspire hope and foster collaboration, people are less inclinded to pro-actively take action today for a better future.
Government organisations are working hard on preventing this lack of imagination, building up a capability in society called Futures Literacy.
Futures Literacy is a universally accessible skill that builds on the human capacity to imagine the future, a capacity every person has since birth. It offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the-imagination. For organisations like UNESCO, Futures Literacy is an essential competency for the 21st century.
In the ‘Designing the Future’ newsletter, we aim to improve the way you think about the future: giving your thinking some structure, provide you the right definitions and vocabulaire, and inspire you with developments currently going on. In addition, we want to guide you in taking action towards the future you prefer. A future you designed as your ideal future. That’s why we will focus on pro-active action taking, stimulating entrepreneurship and making use of emerging technologies today.
Summarizing, what topics we will write about?
Emerging Technologies & Trends
Foresight & Futures Studies
Exponential Business Opportunities
Launching & Scaling Exponential Ventures
Tools & Solutions you can use to leverage the latest innovations today
What you can expect as a subscriber
We aim to publish our newsletter once a month, curating the best knowledge available to make sure you learn the most in the least amount of time.
However, we want to make you one promise: we will not waste your time. We are dedicated to proving high-quality content only. And if we don’t have anything super-valuable to share? We won’t publish.
Only quality content about the topics mentioned above — no unnecesary reading.
Stay up to date
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Hope you will find our upcoming writing interesting, and will learn in every newsletter. I welcome any suggestion or question you may have, so feel free to reach out to me directlt by leaving a comment or sending an email to koen@might.design.
Until next time,
Koen Vegter