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In 2009, in his book “World Crisis”, Franck Biancheri stated: “Our relationship with the future has fundamentally changed in fifty years […] the future now influences the present of our societies as much as the past”.
The idea was that decisions were once primarily driven by references to the past, habits, or traditions. This method of decision-making made sense in societies that evolved slowly, where the future was therefore distant, closer to God than to Man. From the 18th and 19th centuries onwards, scientific, socio-political and educational progress accelerated, feeding off each other, gradually filling the future with prospects for new developments and complicating reality to such an extent that, little by little, the past ceased to be of any help. The future is drawing nearer, it is materialising, it is within reach and our decisions are increasingly made in relation to it. This is what Franck Biancheri drew our attention to in 2009 in order to convince us of the urgent need to refine our tools for observing the future in order to improve the quality of our decisions, to better plan before acting, and therefore to learn to anticipate.
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