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The 6 driving forces and the 32 scenario prompts for 20235

Ron Immink
10 min readJan 30, 2025

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Hello, Future!: The World in 2035" is probably one of the best books I read on foresight. It is excellent. Framed in the current perma-crisis or poly-crisis, with the possibility of everything going wrong unendingly, no relief or resolution in sight, ever, nonstop, and inescapable.

The race between education and catastrophe

It is a race between education and catastrophe. Because the stakes are high and increasing, and through foresight, we seek to learn how today’s dreams and choices may influence and possibly even determine tomorrow’s outcomes. To escape the poly-perma-life-sentence-in-the-basement-crisis trap, we’re going to have to look ahead and see with clear eyes what’s coming,

The multi-shock universe

An increase in frequency and magnitude. It’s a multi-shock universe.

  • Future Shock: The dread induced by accelerating change
  • Geopolitical Shock: Mass war in the 21st century
  • Politico Shock: The breakdown of the social contract
  • Ecology Shock: The climate crisis
  • Techno Shock: The perfect digital storm
  • Demographic shock.
  • Energy shock.
  • Economic Shock: Economic stress…

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Ron Immink
Ron Immink

Written by Ron Immink

Father of two, strategy and innovation specialist, entreprenerd, author, speaker, business book geek, perception pionieer. See www.ronimmink.com

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