You’ll never have a complete picture of what's possible in the future if you look at it from just one point of view. The best way to expand your vision? Engage as many people as you can, and “game out” the possibilities together.
In this course, you’ll learn how to use collaborative gaming techniques to go beyond your own thinking and see many, many different sides of the same future. Over the past decade, the Institute for the Future has pioneered new methods in “massively-multiplayer foresight.” You’ll learn how to adapt these methods to get diverse, surprising views of what’s possible, build your empathy for other people’s futures, and reduce your risk of being “blindsided” by the future. This course features content from the Ethical Operating System, a tool created by the Institute in collaboration with Omidyar Networks’ Tech and Society Lab. It’s designed to help technology companies anticipate risks and prevent unwanted consequences of the things they build. Whether or not you work in tech, the Ethical Operating System will give you the chance to participate right now in an urgent future forecasting game. The stakes of the game are the future of truth, privacy, democracy, security, and our collective well-being. It’s a unique opportunity to join creative and strategic forces with people who are making the tech that’s inventing the future, and with fellow futures thinkers like you. Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
RS
This course is amazing. And the lecturer also telling everything very clearly. It was very fun. Having lots of games to do. Recommend everyone.
PM
Absolutely loved it. I loved the Four Futures Feeling tool. It is great for helping you think outside your default parameters.
MC
Best course so far - Excellent - Practical tools and holistic thinking
JO
The courses are very profound and enriching to me as a learner. Thank you IFTF and Coursera for this opportunity.
SM
wonderful courses throughout - super informative, thought-provoking and helpful to proactively shape the future
JR
Excellent - very insightful and interesting course.
NW
THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO AVAIL THE COURSE IT WILL HELP ME IN MY FIELD OF EXPERTISE..
VR
Very good course, But the review takes some time. Waiting for the review result make us unrestful. Good. Happy to move forward
DJ
Engaging and thought-provoking with useful tools and approaches to use in the workplace
KP
Activities were so just making my mind work and fun to do! You can step yourself as a futurist as i did. I just loved Future wheel the most!!
AN
My favorite course in this specialization! Bravo!
AA
One of the best course I did on Coursera. Thanks for Institute for the Future Team and especially to Dr Jane McGonigal.
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One of the best course I did on Coursera. Thanks for Institute for the Future Team and especially to Dr Jane McGonigal.
Absolutely loved it. I loved the Four Futures Feeling tool. It is great for helping you think outside your default parameters.
Excellent - very insightful and interesting course.
This course is well presented by a Thought Leader in Futures Thinking. It is well designed with abundant readings, exercises, and videos. One of its most powerful components is the connection "Classmates" can develop with each other during the discussions and exam reviews. This is where the student gets chance to learn how people from around the world think on important issues and contribute to the character of the course. Ray Newkirk
Unfortunately there are non-English speakers who submitted their assignments in their native language which I was unable to read. Coursera also disallows copy-paste so I could not use Google Translate to try to understand their entries. I also received 0 points for 2-3 assignments by the peer reviewers which I could decipher were non-English speakers.
Thank you, Jane. I'm finding this whole specialisation very inspiring. The gaming idea really speaks to me. I've downloaded Unity and I've started working on the flooding game I did for one of the prompts. The Simtainers were also great - and I'm doing some VR with Unity looking at a couple of scenarios.
Very interesting. This course teaches how to involve another people into your Future Science activities which is very valuable because capabilities of one person are limited but group work can empower you with a lot of insights. I am looking forward to implement any of tools which the course provides.
Thank you very much for this course. Again, contents are super, accurate for the purpose I had, pragmatic and really useful. Thank you very much to our teachers, that did a great job, making everything easy. And thank you very much to my class mates that has reviewed my job, always helpful
A perfect class for teaching you how to work with others to game out the future, and discover all the possibilities. This is a tool I think every team and company should use, because what better way to forecast/predict the future than to include everyone in it together?
Thank you very much! I find this and other futures thinking courses absolutely perfect, and Janes lectures and other experts, and so many practical tools - it was very, very interesting and most important it opened eyes to so many things about past, future and myself.
Fun, thoughtful, useful, empowering! Well designed with a good mixture of lecture, visual aides, reading material and practical assignment. Learning should be fun, and this really was.
This course is amazing. And the lecturer also telling everything very clearly. It was very fun. Having lots of games to do. Recommend everyone.
Activities were so just making my mind work and fun to do! You can step yourself as a futurist as i did. I just loved Future wheel the most!!
The courses are very profound and enriching to me as a learner. Thank you IFTF and Coursera for this opportunity.
wonderful courses throughout - super informative, thought-provoking and helpful to proactively shape the future
very well structured course, lots of useful tools, great speakers. Very high-quality and interesting course!
Ready to collaborate to create the future! A really interesting and fun course! To crush your brain!
THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO AVAIL THE COURSE IT WILL HELP ME IN MY FIELD OF EXPERTISE..
Engaging and thought-provoking with useful tools and approaches to use in the workplace
muchas gracias, me encanto y ahora podre aplicar lo aprendido en mi carrera profesional