Futurism & Strategic Foresight

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Futurism & Strategic Foresight. They span 4 subdomains — sort by that column to group them, or click any subdomain to filter to it.

Abstraction	Subdomain	Description
Global catastrophic risk	Risk Analysis and Global Governance	A risk whose realized harm would severely damage human well-being or civilization across a global scale, distinguished from existential risk by not necessarily threatening permanent extinction or loss of potential.
Science fiction prototyping	Futures Design	A futures and design method that uses a science-fiction narrative to explore a proposed technology’s operation, users and social consequences before it exists.
Transition Scenario	Scenario PlanningTransition Studies	Transition scenarios are descriptions of future states which combine a future image with an account of the changes that would need to occur to reach that future.