The Institute for Futures Research (IFR) published its first Business Futures publication in 1984 and since then has published an updated edition annually. The publication has also transformed over the years from a quite a substantial printed volume to an online web based portal allowing for easier access across the globe. The key motivation
Collapse futures are well documented in popular media, apocalyptic movies and video games resulting in all of us having many such memories of the future. In the South African context particularly, so much has been written and spoken about this future archetype and collapse scenarios have been well explored. But collapse is only one possible future, and by
“How do you know if a statement is true?” This is a question posed by world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman, in his book Thinking Fast and Slow. The question all but shattered my world view. As a young, spritely, newly employed systems analyst, I had been tasked by
