Future Matters
by Dr. Claire Nelson,
Editor-At-Large
G
reetings and Forward March! As the
newly-minted Editor at Large of Hu-
man Futures Magazine, I am gloriously
‘futurious’! (futurious ~adjective: full of all
things future). Why? WFSF — as the lead-
ing global network for the ‘futurati’ (those
interested in studying and learning about
the future) — is ready to march forward
to bring more futures literacy to the lead-
ership classes around the world. Yes! We
are taking Human Futures – our magazine
— out to the big wide world outside of our
members. To help do this, we have as-
sembled an adventurous team of futures
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explorers who feel passionate about WFSF’s place as the UNESCO
partner for futures studies. This position demands that WFSF sheds
its cloaking devices and reveal the insight we bring through our work
as futures studies and foresight academicians, advocates and agents
of change, to a broader audience. For truly, the challenges we face as
the human family are of monumental proportions and on a planetary
scale never seen before, so much so that some experts are calling
this era the age of the Anthropocene.
It goes without saying that in this volatile, uncertain, complex and
ambiguous world we inhabit, the over 30,000 NGOs with ECOSOC
status and their millions of members who are laboring at all levels of
living reality to bring about Agenda 2030 and futures of wellbeing for
the world’s 7.5 Billion and growing peoples, would benefit from ac-
cess to information that could advance their knowledge and improve
their policy and program design and decision making. For one thing,
I know us homo sapiens sapiens all want the same thing: that is to
arrive alive in the future we want. To arrive alive in 2525! Indeed, the
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