Thinking aboutthe future

What will / shouldthe future look like?

EcotopiaErnst Callenbach

You have a model of where we’re headed or should head.

Sign your portrait of the future.

Leave yourself a few notes about it.

Give it to a classmate for safekeeping.

“Everything we think we know is a model.”

What is a model?

Whether mental or mathematical,models area simplified representation.

Models can help us to understand things.

All modelshave limitations.

Models can be refined.

The world is at, nearing, or past the points of peak production of critical nonrenewable resources...

The global climate is being destabilized...

Freshwater scarcity is a real or impending problem...

World food production per capita is declining...

Earth’s plant and animal species are being driven to extinction...

ThePost CarbonReader

Rapidly reduce dependence of fossil fuels.

Adapt to the end of economic growth.

Design and and provide a sustainable way of life for 7 billion people.

Deal with the environmental consequences of the last 100 years of fossil-fueled growth.

ThePost CarbonReader

Stories...

help us communicate information about...

situations (context)modelsexpectationsand more

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explainengage the imaginationspark new ideascreate a shared understandingpersuade

Stories...

Storytelling for User Experience

EcotopiaErnst Callenbach

Chapter 6

Thinking aboutthe future thinking

Reading Assignment

Introduction

Chapter 1

Assignment 3

Pick a system.Think about it.