What is it about?
Ideas about time and ideas about futures have been evolving for thousands of years. This essay introduces important concepts from my recent book The Future: A Very Short Introduction, showing how humans in the past have deeply interwoven these concepts. By understanding how humans in the past have storied and framed both time and the future, we can gain a deeper appreciation of the significance of time consciousness on futures thinking and vice versa.
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Why is it important?
Very few people have written about the relationship between time and futures thinking and yet they are intimately interconnected.
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I think this is a seminal piece of work on the millennia-old relationship between how humans think about time in terms of how we frame our futures.
Professor Jennifer M. Gidley
University of Technology Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Imbuing Futures and Time with Agency and Urgency: Reframing Concepts for a Planetary Emergency, World Futures Review, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1946756717729512.
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