Futurometer (April Edition)
a measure of pressure changes on the Future
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Providentia’s Prospectus 2019 – Annual Report list-
ing 30 trends women futurists around the world are
watching.
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The advent of 3D Printed Housing at prices that
could help do away with homelessness for people
everywhere.
desire to live and live well might be the most unifying principle we share as
a species, regardless of our nationality, color, creed, race or gender. That
is the reason enough for us to ensure that HUMAN FUTURES magazine be-
comes a gathering place for dialogue about our very human futures.
One central question framing this dialogue is: ‘How will we — as a species
— ensure that our decisions and actions, our social movements, and the
advancing technologies and economic policies that drive the exponential
changes of our time are evolutionary choices for our global commons and
our common good?’ To think on this question deeply is to illuminate both
known and unknown unknowns, which not even the latest version of IBM
Watson can decipher (much less I), with its data banks of reserve world
knowledge. Still, it helps me feel a little more secure that we each have
a role to play in co-creating our shared futures, when I pay attention to
signals on the emerging futures landscape that give me hope or cause to
pause. And so here is the April Futurometer with ten signals I have been
watching.
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three
Happy Planet Index — We need a great transition to
a new economics that can deliver for people and the
planet. Enter New Economic Foundation with this
game changing metric.
four
Google’s open-source AI platform called TensorFlow
which helps linguists to build AI models for indige-
nous languages, thus helping preserve our linguistic
diversity.
five
Future Generations Wellbeing Act in Wales – a pol-
icy enacted with Commissioner of Future Genera-
tions to keep watch and hold current policy makers
accountable for sustainable decision making
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