resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @grescoe: China's largest cities where the action is—but China Daily reports air, water quality make them barely liveable. http://t.co/G… May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Resilience and Recovery of Overexploited Marine Populations http://t.co/vZ58gqG6ZQ Fish resilient but too much fishing erodes resilience May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Changes in leading causes of death, years of life lost, & DALYs from 1990->2010 http://t.co/SKR2FTgtpa #GBD #visualization May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @rhizomia: Guatemalan Rios Montt's conviction of genocide annulled - 'technical reasons. Una vergüenza http://t.co/Vwd7LO6dNW May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Instability & surprising synchrony of ecosystem services in #urban planning http://t.co/Toygu75g93 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @Revkin: I chat with @MarkTercek on range of approaches needed for a thriving #Anthropocene: http://t.co/lp6Ov501L3 (video) @aspeninstit… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @macroresilience: believe it or not, best book on immigration & problems of integration I've read: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography ht… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: For Swedish speakers- Swedish EPA interviews Carl Folke about ecosystem services. Podcast from @Miljodep: http://t.co/vPzNAlolN6 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Rate of zoonotic disease emergence is closely tied to ag-environmental interactions, but limited ability to predict http://t.co/3eagecRaGH May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Impact of 2008 crisis on inequality across OECD: Income inequality rose but taxes & transfers mitigated impact http://t.co/RQBOEurjQT May 22, 2013
Tag Archives: narrative
Scenarios have to be plausible, but reality is under no such constraints
Following up on my comments on William Gibson‘s discuss of his science fiction where I wrote that “Scenarios have to be plausible, but reality is under no such constraints” Futurist, scenario planner, and co-founder of WorldChanging, Jamais Cascio writes on his weblog Open … Continue reading
Murakami on fiction for an unreal world
One of the problems with scenario planning is that it requires plausible scenarios, but that reality is behaves in ways that are implausible. This is another way of describing what Nassim Taleb named Black Swans, significant unexpected events, that change … Continue reading
Pattern recognition
I quoted William Gibson‘s book Pattern Recognition in a workshop on Expertise for the Future the other day. Gibson wrote: … we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Hubertus Bigend, narrative, Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
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