The End of Speculative Futures or: The Future Burrito
In an era where AI can transform concepts into reality within seconds and globalisation creates multiple radically different lived experiences across the world, what does it mean to "forecast the future"?
Simone explores how traditional future forecasting approaches such as the future cone are being disrupted when tomorrow's imagined scenarios are already someone's lived reality today.
AI, long promised yet materialising differently than expected, has collapsed the gap between imagination and implementation. For those creating applied products, this raises critical questions: How can we overcome the "future fatigue" phenomenon where technological acceleration has made tomorrow arrive so quickly that we've lost our fascination with what lies ahead?
Join us to examine how designers and product innovators must navigate a world where the gap between speculation and implementation has narrowed dramatically, requiring new approaches to anticipate and shape what comes next.
