Choose the future

Quoting Alan Kay ("the best way to predict the future is to invent it"), this essay argues that planning in the next decade must be about rigour, understanding, and inspiration.

Choose the future

Faris Yakob

Prospection, the act of looking forward in time, is a quintessentially human endeavour. Some consider it the quintessential human endeavour: "The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future."1

"The fundamental purpose of brains is to produce future… brains are, in essence, anticipation machines."2

We spend much of our time projecting ourselves forward to motivate ourselves to reach towards our desired future, using the lens of that future as a way to understand what we should be doing now. Mankind is characterised by its nature as a planner.

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