Farsight #19 - The Problem of the Future

Farsight unpacks the most urgent issues shaping tomorrow, fusing analysis and speculation to spotlight emerging change and challenge assumptions about the future. Insights from our resident futurists are included alongside articles and interviews from an international network of journalists and expert contributors, all brought to life through striking illustration and design. Farsight is published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, a non-profit think-tank (NGO) founded with the principle that many futures are always in play, and that future thinking can help us better make sense of them. Farsight helps readers map out these worlds and understand their own agency in shaping the future that they desire.

In this issue: 

This time we’re taking a closer look at cycles, patterns, and the lllusion of control. The world is a chaotic place, and the temptation to look for subterranean rhythms that give it some sort of order is hard to resist. After all, patterns are everywhere once we start to look.

This issue is dedicated to the manifold attempts at giving the future its shape, and to finding meaning in chaos, from medieval macrohistory to contemporary
´megatrends.