By Futurist Thomas Frey
We’re a very backward-looking society. We’re backward-looking because it’s human nature and because, well, it’s easy.
Think about it this way: We’ve all personally experienced the past. We see evidence of the past everywhere. In fact, all information that we encounter is essentially historic in nature.
The past, then, is very knowable, and we’re hard-wired to look at the things we already know and understand. The problem is, we’re going to be spending the rest of our lives in the future. For this reason, we essentially find ourselves walking backward into the future, which is clumsy at best.
As a futurist, it is my job to help turn people around so they can anticipate the future and walk toward it, boldly and with confidence and inspiration about what the future may have in store for us.
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