Published 07-10-2024
Keywords
- Innovative,
- World Futures Day,
- Event,
- Future,
- Global Foresight
Abstract
World Futures Day (WFD) is a 24-h round-the-world global conversation about the
futures and represents a new kind of participatory futures method. Launched for the first
time by The Millennium Project in 2014, WFD on March 1 evokes innovative ideas and
solutions to major challenges by sharing knowledge and supporting collective intelligence.
The paper summarizes the main future-oriented topics discussed during WFD 2022, ninth
edition of the event, following a mixed methods approach analysis. The Global Futures
Agenda 2022 is composed of four thematic clusters including their topics and contents.
Cluster 1 on complex solutions for complex problems includes topics related to suggestions
and solutions for future pandemics, wars, space, earth, food, cities and governance.
Cluster 2 on a hyper-technological humanity includes topics related to robots, changes
in cognitive abilities, cyber dictatorship, pluriverses, trans-human world, and AI global
governance system. Cluster 3 on education and learning includes topics related to learning
with AI, new metaskills, experiential learning for creativity, and futuring everyone. Cluster
4 on improving global foresight includes topics related to changes in Futures Studies, a
surprise theory, types of futuring, futures competences, scenarios as literature, and our
common threats and agenda.