Foresight Forensics: Using Scenarios to Demonstrate Unintended Consequences Aug 27, 2021 By Jamais Cascio Foresight professionals typically don’t use scenarios as stand-alone forecasts. In most cases, we use scenarios as a way to give some emotional or visceral weight to an otherwise information-driven report. Sometimes, a set of scenarios will be accompanied by not just the core forecast but also elements like illustrations and artifacts, representations of the scenario world that can provide their own novel insights. IFTF’s 2017 Future Now magazine, with the theme “Reconfiguring Reality,” looked broadly at…
