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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Users can explore and compare survey-based and automated data, examine differences across countries, and investigate how markets could develop under four alternative foresight scenarios: Baseline, Reimagining Progress, The Fractured Continent, and The Corporate Epoch.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FROM DATA TO FUTURES: THE 4GROWTH VISUALISATION PLATFORM IS NOW COMPLETE The 4Growth Visualisation Platform is now fully available, bringing together data and foresight analysis on the digital transformation of agriculture and forestry across Europe.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Eckhard from our team will join the network meeting and co-host a Barcamp session with Brigit Wintermann from the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The session will offer a first look at our upcoming paper on resilience, circular economy, and security prior to its official publication.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

CIRCULAR ECONOMY MEETS RESILIENCE ♻️ On September 28-29, the @bertelsmannst.bsky.social will bring together its network in Berlin for a networking meeting and Barcamp. We have been working on circular economy transformation and the policy conditions needed to support it for several years.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The book reminds readers that futures are shaped by culture, history, and the voices that are heard and by those that are overlooked. The novel further challenges assumptions about progress and invites us to imagine futures through a different lens. #Africanfuturism #SpeculativeFiction

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At the center of the story are questions of technology, identity, creativity, and power. Okorafor explores how innovation can both empower and disrupt, how narratives influence the societies we build, and how personal experiences shape the futures we imagine.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR BY NNEDI OKORAFOR The Africanfuturist novel moves between the life of a struggling writer, Zelu, the imagined world of her science fiction story, and interviews with her loved ones. The story also illustrates the challenges faced by Black disabled women in the US and Nigeria.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As part of the 4Growth Project, Eckhard from our team will be there to connect with other digital innovation projects and exchange insights on the future of digitalization in agriculture and forestry. If you’re attending, come say hi! 👋

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

SYNERGY DAYS 2026 🌱 On October 20-21, the Synergy Days will bring together the agri-food community in Kilkenny, Ireland, to connect, exchange knowledge and discuss the future of European agriculture.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Moreover, the report presents five alternative scenarios for AGI governance through 2035. The scenarios explore how different choices and governance approaches could lead to very different outcomes. 📘 Get the report here: www.millennium-project.org/publications... #AIGovernance

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AGI Governance - The Millennium Project

The transition from ANI to AGI will pose unprecedented risks unless governance frameworks are put in place.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Drawing on the perspectives of 55 leading AI thinkers, the report explores 22 key questions surrounding AGI, from its potential impacts to the challenges of governing increasingly capable systems. It then examines what effective governance could require at both the national and international levels.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

FUTURE AI–AGI: EXPLORING THE CHOICES THAT COULD SHAPE 2035 Jerome C. Glenn and the @millennium-project.org have just released ‘Future AI–AGI: Issues, Governance, Scenarios’- a report examining what the transition from today’s AI systems toward AGI could mean for humanity.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What makes the book particularly compelling is its long-term perspective. The future is presented as the result of countless interactions, unexpected developments, and evolutionary processes. ‘Children of Time’ offers a reminder that the future is often far stranger than we expect. #EmergingFutures

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The novel follows two parallel stories: the last remnants of humanity searching for a new home and a species evolving on a distant planet under entirely different conditions. Cooperation, competition, communication, and innovation – all become driving forces in shaping the future.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

CHILDREN OF TIME BY ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY ‘Children of Time’ begins with humanity’s attempt to engineer the future. But when the experiment goes wrong, evolution takes a path that unfolds over thousands of years and challenges everything we think we know about intelligence, civilisation, and progress.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As the platform continues to grow, it offers an increasingly valuable resource for understanding how digital transformation in agriculture and forestry may unfold over the coming decades. 🔎 Read the newsletter here: 4growth-project.eu/wp-content/u...

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The platform now includes quantified market estimates for the three holistic foresight scenarios developed by Future Impacts for 4Growth. These estimates enable users to explore how market developments in digital agriculture and forestry solutions may vary across alternative future conditions.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

FROM SCENARIOS TO MARKET INSIGHTS: NEW FEATURES ON THE 4GROWTH VISUALISATION PLATFORM The 4Growth Visualisation Platform continues to evolve—with a new beta feature that brings together foresight and market analysis in one place.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The workshop is part of the STRATOS project, which aims to strengthen strategic foresight in civil protection through research, methodological guidance, and capacity building. The project contributes to preparing institutions for an increasingly complex and uncertain future. #CivilProtection

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the @tu-braunschweig.de, and us to explore how foresight can strengthen preparedness and resilience. Cornelia and Eckhard from our team contributed international perspectives on strategic foresight in the security context, helped shape the workshop concept, and co-facilitated group sessions.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

STRENGTHENING CIVIL PROTECTION THROUGH FORESIGHT How can strategic foresight become part of decision-making in civil protection? This was at the center of a workshop as part of the STRATOS research project, bringing together colleagues from the Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz & Katastrophenhilfe,

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We’ve been closely connected to FEN over the years. Cornelia from our team served as President and Vice President of the network for six years, helping shape its development and its mission of strengthening futures thinking. 📘 Read it here: www.tutuseura.fi/11-our-world...

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Our World of Futures Studies as a Mosaic 2 (Futures Series 11) – Tulevaisuuden tutkimuksen seura ry

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The article, written by Mara Di Berardo from the @millennium-project.org, explores how FEN has evolved since its founding in 2014 into an open European network connecting researchers, practitioners, institutions, and citizens working to advance futures thinking and foresight.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

12 YEARS OF BUILDING FORESIGHT ACROSS EUROPE A new article on the history of the Foresight Europe Network (FEN) has just been released in the latest issue of the edited volume “Our World of Futures Studies as a Mosaic, Part 2,” published by @yhys.bsky.social

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A room full of innovation professionals quickly converged on the same tension: most organisations are good at scanning for signals, but far fewer have built the internal machinery to act on them strategically. That gap, between insight and action, is where foresight earns its value.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Jessica led a session on connecting foresight to venturing decisions. The group worked through real signal-interpretation exercises, testing how foresight can serve as the common thread throughout an organisation's innovation process.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND CORPORATE VENTURING Last week, Jessica from our team was at the 2026 Advanced Training Forum, organised by Forest Valley Institute in collaboration with Edison.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A timely reminder that shaping resilient futures requires not only better tools—but also new ways of collaborating and thinking across boundaries. #StrategicForesight #FutureOfPolicy #EUPolicy #InnovationInPolicy #PolicyDesign

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

… policy design, the event explored how policymaking can better respond to complexity, uncertainty, and overlapping crises. What stood out: the growing need to connect disciplines, experiment with new approaches, and create spaces where future-oriented thinking can directly inform policy practice.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

POLICYMAKING IN TIMES OF POLYCRISIS: INSIGHTS FROM POLYFUTURES Recently, Eckhard from our team joined the PolyFutures Conference in Brussels, hosted by the EU Policy Lab of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Bringing together perspectives from foresight, behavioral insights, and …

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The writing’s minimalist style may feel cold, but it perfectly mirrors the landscape's emptiness. By the end, readers understand the weight of every decision and the meaning of love in extreme circumstances. #ForesightReads #PostApocalypticFiction #SpeculativeFutures #SocietyInTransition

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Their journey takes them through a world reduced to ash and ruin, where societal rules no longer exist and danger lurks around every corner. Yet, amid this desolation, moments of tenderness and moral choices shine even brighter. Life is fragile.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

THE ROAD BY CORMAC MCCARTHY In Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road,’ a father and his young son traverse a desolate, post-apocalyptic world. The novel's prose is minimalist, stripping away anything unnecessary and leaving only the essentials: survival, love, and the bond between parent and child.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

… and alternative foresight scenarios to support more informed decision-making. It allows policymakers to explore how different technologies are developing, compare trends across countries, and assess how these trajectories might shift under changing conditions.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

NEW BLOG POST: NAVIGATING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN AGRICULTURE 🌾 How is digitalisation in agriculture and forestry evolving—and what does it mean for policy? The 4Growth Visualisation Platform brings together real-world data, market projections up to 2040, …

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

At the same time, enlargement opens up new opportunities, such as accelerating decarbonization, modernising energy systems, and strengthening Europe’s overall resilience. Integrating these perspectives is crucial for developing a resilient climate strategy in an evolving geopolitical landscape.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

She shared insights from our foresight work with the European Climate Foundation on ‘Climate Action in the EU of 2035: Enlargement Perspectives.’ The conversation revealed a significant gap: EU climate targets are becoming more ambitious, yet, the implications of enlargement remain underexplored.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

CLIMATE POLICY & EU ENLARGEMENT As the EU moves toward greater climate ambition & enlargement, these agendas are becoming increasingly intertwined. At a recent public hearing by @eesc.bsky.social, Jess from our team contributed to the discussion on pathways to climate neutrality in an enlarged EU.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Foresight should not be an occasional exercise. Embedding it into everyday processes can strengthen engagement, resilience, and the ability to act, even in times of crisis. 📘 Read the interview with Cornelia (in German) in the newest issue of Impulse (05/2026).   #FutureThinking #BusinessStrategy

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Foresight is about preparing for what could happen. By working with scenarios, organisations can explore alternative futures, anticipate challenges, and identify opportunities for their business models. AI can support this process, but human judgment remains essential.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

WHY ENGAGING WITH THE FUTURE IS A STRATEGIC NECESSITY In a recent interview with Impulse Medien, Cornelia from our team highlights a key challenge for organisations: not engaging with the future is a risk in itself. It limits room for action and increases vulnerability in times of uncertainty.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Megathon demonstrated that a forward-looking, optimistic perspective is not about ignoring challenges, but about identifying opportunities for action—even in times of crisis. #FutureThinking #ParticipatoryFutures #innovation #SocialChange #UseTheNews

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As part of the @millennium-project.org, Moritz from our team contributed in various roles: co-delivering a keynote on confidence & optimism from a foresight perspective with Christian Schoon; supporting teams as a futures coach; and serving on the jury that selected the day’s standout contribution.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

IDEAS FOR A CONFIDENT FUTURE: INSIGHTS FROM THE MEGATHON IN COLOGNE At the recent Megathon in Cologne—organized by Projekt Zuversicht, an initiative of UseTheNews, Rheingold Salon, and Initiative18—participants came together to develop forward-looking ideas for media, politics, and the economy.

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Future Impacts | Foresight Consultancy & Research @future-impacts.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In this podcast episode, “Zukunft Circular Economy: Bekommt Deutschland noch die Kurve?”, by @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, Eckhard from our team discusses with Birgit Wintermann how to successfully transition to a circular economy and why it is far more than an environmental topic.

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