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Scenario Planning Besopke Futures
This is a an interesting article on changing our perception in designing for the future. Lunenfeld brings to attention an important strategy: Scenario Planning. And applies a nice, lost term to the future: Bespoke
It is a no-brainer. But the problem I find with two generations (mine and the one after, I guess X and Y gens) in applying that strategy is our short attention span brought on by our lifestyles and all the tools for our daily work and play... just things as 'simple' as Google, the Adobe apps, the instantaneous locating of our music on iPods, digital cameras and camera phones and so on. These tools have brought about a lack of patience to plan in detail for events far ahead in time, or to even put scrutinizing attention to tasks at hand (ctrl+z).
My speculation is coming from my personal change over the past 10 years and how by using the internet and getting instant search results, I can't stand flipping through a printed resource to find my answer, or the 1 minute render time will seem like DAMN FOREVER. And think of Photosynth... are you kidding, will I have the patience to click for the next image on flickr?!
(I have been taken control of by my tools. Really, I'll admit it. It must change.)
That (scenario planning) is really smart. That's how we've come to be under the control of corporations. They planned it way ahead of time (think public transportation here in helLA). We need to take back the control and design our method of control. Not to sound like starting up the Death Star colony. But we need to think beyond aesthetics and experience (aX) for continuing living happily elsewhere, but aX for means of long-term survival of just control to prevent wrongful control (make sense?). I am sick and tired of being sold what's free, of having our freedoms sanctioned, censured and commoditized (is this a word?). I don't want breathing to be a service I pay for.
Not only have we messed up our environment, we've messed up how societies play out and interact.
On top of it all, we're drugged up on anti-depressants which make you sit around and do nothing. Between 1998 and 2002 anti-depressants were up 113% and 91% among girls and boys under the age of 18.
How can this population scenario plan a future?!
I'm banning pharmaceutical drugs and the exchange of money.
It is a no-brainer. But the problem I find with two generations (mine and the one after, I guess X and Y gens) in applying that strategy is our short attention span brought on by our lifestyles and all the tools for our daily work and play... just things as 'simple' as Google, the Adobe apps, the instantaneous locating of our music on iPods, digital cameras and camera phones and so on. These tools have brought about a lack of patience to plan in detail for events far ahead in time, or to even put scrutinizing attention to tasks at hand (ctrl+z).
My speculation is coming from my personal change over the past 10 years and how by using the internet and getting instant search results, I can't stand flipping through a printed resource to find my answer, or the 1 minute render time will seem like DAMN FOREVER. And think of Photosynth... are you kidding, will I have the patience to click for the next image on flickr?!
(I have been taken control of by my tools. Really, I'll admit it. It must change.)
That (scenario planning) is really smart. That's how we've come to be under the control of corporations. They planned it way ahead of time (think public transportation here in helLA). We need to take back the control and design our method of control. Not to sound like starting up the Death Star colony. But we need to think beyond aesthetics and experience (aX) for continuing living happily elsewhere, but aX for means of long-term survival of just control to prevent wrongful control (make sense?). I am sick and tired of being sold what's free, of having our freedoms sanctioned, censured and commoditized (is this a word?). I don't want breathing to be a service I pay for.
Not only have we messed up our environment, we've messed up how societies play out and interact.
On top of it all, we're drugged up on anti-depressants which make you sit around and do nothing. Between 1998 and 2002 anti-depressants were up 113% and 91% among girls and boys under the age of 18.
How can this population scenario plan a future?!
I'm banning pharmaceutical drugs and the exchange of money.
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