What is the Future of Social Networks? |
| Published: June 14, 2008, 9:06 am |
| Tags: social networks, future studies, opinion |
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Who says only prophets and fair-ground psychics are able to predict the future? Understanding the future is beneficial to most industries in order to cope with technological and societal change. We take a look at what the future landscape of social networking might look like. Future forecasting “Futures Studies, Foresight, or Futurology is the science, art and practice of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. Futures studies (colloquially called Futures by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue, what is likely to change, and what is novel. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.” - Wikipedia entry Herman Kahn of the RAND Corporation, used scenarios to predict how a nuclear war could be won , while the Ministry of Defence's [ Full article ] |
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