The future will not be forecasted. It will be backcasted.

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AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums
Public lecture and Speaker Series at Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Duane Elverum
March 18, 2010

The Sausage Factory: How are we going to satisfy our appetite for a better world?
A forecasted world is one handed to us by experts who use our current capacities to make decisions about what is possible. Backcasting is a way to imagine the world that we collectively desire by trying to describe it together.

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