The end is near, and so is the beginning. The almost 250 year experiment in American democracy is coming to a close, with a failed and spectacular ending. But the story of the United States is mixed and complex. What comes next will determine whether we look back on this experiment as a springboard to a better world, or a curious caution tale in the grand scheme of history.
So, what comes next? Or the more salient question, how are we going to design and built what comes next? This talk will explore the civilizational-scale inflection point we are facing, the dreams of the future that might activate our collective minds, and how to become inventors of the next society.
Jake Dunagan
Director, Governance Futures Lab, Institute for the Future
Jake helps people see and feel alternative possibilities so they can create better futures. He directs the Governance Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research, and education group in Palo Alto, CA. He also teaches foresight in the Design Strategy MBA program at the California College of the Arts, the Center for Integrated Design at UT-Austin, the Diseño de Mañana program at CENTRO, and IFTF’s Foresight Essentials. His work as an experiential futurist, political system designer, and professor of foresight centers around the concept of social invention—developing futures concepts and participatory platforms to help organizations around the world re-imagine and re-design their futures.