Predict The Future, Feel Ready for Anything and Prepare for the World Ahead | Jane McGonigal (Replay)
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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Summary
In today’s era of ever-accelerating change, it might seem impossible to predict the future with any degree of accuracy. Likewise, it might be easy to assume that the only way to do so is through sophisticated AI algorithms and data science.
Incredibly, Jane McGonigal and her colleagues at Institute for the Future have been able to predict several of today’s most disruptive trends as much as ten years in advance.
Through her innovative use of alternate reality games, hyper-specific journaling techniques, and something called “future backcasting”, Jane continues to not only lay out seemingly impossible future scenarios, but also help prepare people to be proactive in building the future they want to see.
If you like what you see in today’s episode, then I highly encourage you to check out Jane’s latest book, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
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[Original air date: 4-12-22].
SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:40 | A New Approach to Futurism
13:23 | The Psychology of Predicting the Future
22:50 | Rehearsing Catastrophes
32:56 | How to Practice for the Future
38:18 | Crypto, Government, and Privacy
48:31 | Future Backcasting
53:54 | The Future of Web3 Gaming
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| 0:00.0 | Thatters law says any useful idea about the future should it first seem ridiculous. |
| 0:06.0 | And that's really important to hold in our minds, right? |
| 0:09.0 | Because, you know, on one hand, it's easy to prepare for futures that sound normal, |
| 0:15.0 | that feel like a kind of continuation of today, but it's the weird stuff that catches us off guard. |
| 0:21.1 | Is Datter's a lot trying to shock people or knock people out of the normalcy bias? |
| 0:25.2 | Exactly. |
| 0:26.2 | So we all have this normalcy bias. |
| 0:28.2 | Our brain is designed to make sense of the world in a way that doesn't overwhelm us. |
| 0:34.4 | And so it wants to believe that patterns that have been true in the past or things that are true today will continue to be so because if we're constantly waking up every day, being like, oh, how do things work now? |
| 0:44.8 | Like, oh, what's going on? |
| 0:46.3 | It's too stressful. |
| 0:47.3 | It's too overwhelming. |
| 0:48.3 | And so the brain normally assumes things will continue as they are. But what that means is it can be very hard to |
| 0:57.5 | wake up and realize this thing that used to be true is no longer true or this assumption I had |
| 1:06.2 | is no longer helpful. |
| 1:13.2 | Jane McGonigal, welcome to the show. |
| 1:13.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.0 | Excited to have you here. |
| 1:20.9 | So futurist, game designer, two things that I am obsessed with. |
| 1:27.1 | So when I heard that your new book was coming out about that imaginable, I was immediately hooked and intrigued. I think that we're living |
| 1:29.8 | through an incredibly disruptive, radical transformation moment. You talk about that in the book, |
| 1:37.7 | this idea of future shock. Walk us through the whole idea of being a futuristist because you're a futurist not like in a |
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