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Humankind has long strug gled with the uncertainty of the future and particularly with how to foresee the future, imagine alternatives, or prepare for and guard against undesirable eventualities. This book does not provide answers to such prob lems. It is neither a manifesto that sets out to describe an undesirable state of afairs that might be termed the "uncertainty society" nor a toolkit for designing the types of futures we might wish to see. Instead, my aim is to problematize dif er ent ways in which socie ties conceptualize and act on the uncertain future and to understand how and why par tic u lar social technologies have emerged accordingly as well as how these technologies reshape and afect the ways in which we experience our world. My principal objective within this efort is to shed light on one par tic u lar technology for systematically thinking, envisioning, and preparing for future uncertainties: the scenario.The scenario-or scenario planning-emerged to become a widespread means through which states, large corporations, and local organ izations imagine and prepare for the future. Regardless of the dif er ent ways in which scenarios are created and used, vari ous itera

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN