<![CDATA[I sat before a professional futurist yesterday, who presented a set of 16 megatrends &amp; I was baffled that he kept insisting on his institute being apolitical when literally all of them are structural/cultural in nature.]]>I sat before a professional futurist yesterday, who presented a set of 16 megatrends & I was baffled that he kept insisting on his institute being apolitical when literally all of them are structural/cultural in nature.

He probably meant party affiliation, but this fear of "sounding political" propagates the idea that the future is not a political realm; that you can - even should - disregard politics when thinking about it.

I don't believe this is helpful.

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