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What is perhaps most striking is that there has been relatively little direct scientific inquiry into these many anticipatory systems and processes, in particular the performative attributes of conscious imagining that constitute the dominant form of the expression of the “future” in the present.\n\nAdvancing the exploration of the diversity of reasons and methods humans use to imagine the future has been the driving force behind a decade-long action-research/action-learning initiative that UNESCO has conducted in its role as a global laboratory of ideas. In collaboration with people around the world, we have been running specially designed experiments that we call Futures Literacy Laboratories.\n\nThese Labs are designed to probe the processes and assumptions at play when humans make use of the future. 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What is crucial to realise is that, like reading and writing, there is no way to know what people will do with the enhanced capacity to understand why and how they imagine the future. Capabilities are open, without any particular necessity or causal relationship to an outcome. That said, humans are accustomed to using the future in specific ways. The most dominant reason for imagining the future is to predict what will happen. From oracles to prophets to visionary leaders, humans have long relied on probable or desired images of the future to guide their decisions. Today is no different, as attested to by the horde of forecasters, pundits and planners who make their living by trying to predict what will happen in business, the economy and politics.\n\nWhile it may be true that today’s fortune tellers are more systematic and analytical than their predecessors, they still cater to only one way of using the future. 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Most people also know — at least intuitively, on the basis of their own life, which unfolded in ways that were unimaginable in advance — that complexity as the creative nature of our universe is unavoidable. Uncertainty or change is the only certainty. Yet we are addicted, particularly at the level of the stories we tell ourselves about security and the role we expect humans to play in the world, to controlling tomorrow. By confining our imagined futures to the realisation of what might be characterised as a ‘god-like’ role we under-utilise the power of our imagination to go beyond the pursuit of certainty with its obligation to describe the future on the basis of what we already know — that is the past. We can use the future for emergence or to liberate our perception of the present from the blinkers of futures-imagined in order to colonise tomorrow. Futures Literacy Labs offer evidence that everyone is capable of engaging their imagination in an effort to describe images that are not framed by what we know from yesterday and today. Images that are inspired by another purpose, to discover the differences that emerge all around us all the time. \n\nLetting go of the imperative to colonise the future also opens the door to diversifying how we imagine the future. Once you expand the reasons for imagining the future it also becomes evident that we need to expand the ways in which to do so. Planning the future, efforts to control and dominate tomorrow, bring a strong bias towards imagining the future on the basis of probability — the past extrapolated into the future — and the projection of current preferences so you can plan a better or desired future. \n\nAnticipation for emergence calls for another set of tools: ones that attempt to let go of the past, including the past desire to control the future. 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If what we can perceive in the present is powerfully influenced by the futures we imagine then the key is to become better able to use the future to sense, and make sense of, the experiences we are having now: the novel emergent present that is not knowable in advance. If we are locked into the fear and arrogance that accompany our efforts to impose our will on tomorrow then we diminish our ability to appreciate the richness of a complex universe characterised by constant creativity, the well-spring of difference. This matters a great deal for many of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. Blinded by our sense of superiority and the arrogant belief that we can and must, for glory and power, control the future, we wreak havoc on the universe around us and become apologists for the proposition that the ends justify the means. 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GESDA is committed to protecting the privacy of its stakeholders, communities, and other contacts.\n\n## Scope\n\nThis privacy policy applies to all personal data processed by full-time and part-time employees, volunteers when acting on behalf of GESDA, contractors and partners doing business on behalf of GESDA, as well as all legal entities, all operating locations in all countries, and all business processes conducted by GESDA.\n\n## Information Collected\n\n#### What information do we collect?\n\nGESDA collects the following personal data in line with the use purposes explained in a subsequent section:\n\n  * Your name and contact details\n  * Online profile data/usage\n  * Contact information\n  * Social media profile information\n  * Education and professional information\n  * Registration and participation in GESDA events and activities - Information about service usage\n  * Cookies\n  * Authentication data\n  * Location information\n  * Author and peer review information\n  * Other information you upload or provide to us\n\n#### How do we use your information?\n\nGESDA uses (and, where specified, shares) your personal information for the following purposes:\n\n  * To provide support or other services. 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We may also use this information to confirm compliance with licensing and other terms of use and may share it with your company/institution.\n  * To assist in your participation in GESDA activities. GESDA will communicate with you, if you are participating in certain GESDA activities such as the GESDA Summit, authoring or reviewing a GESDA article, or GESDA humanitarian activities. GESDA may send you information such as update messages related to those activities (such as but not limited to the event's content, and event logistics)\n  * To update you on relevant GESDA events and opportunities. GESDA may communicate with you regarding relevant GESDA events and opportunities.\n  * To protect GESDA content and services. We may use your information to prevent potentially illegal activities and to enforce our terms and conditions.\n  * To get feedback or input from you. 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If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 16, please contact us.\n\n#### How will you know if the Privacy Policy is changed?\n\nGESDA may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes you will be notified by means of a notice on our website prior on the date the change becomes effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.\n\n## Technical And Regulatory Information\n\n#### Logging practices\n\nGESDA automatically records the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of visitors. The IP address is a unique number assigned to every computer on the internet. Generally, an IP address changes each time you connect to the internet (it is a \"dynamic\" address). Note, however, that if you have a broadband connection, depending on your individual circumstance, the IP address that we collect may contain information that could be deemed identifiable. 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