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Directed Fiction Defined: Directed fiction is a strategic foresight tool designed to simultaneously consider multiple plausible future...

Abstract: Alternate Futures are compared using the foresight technique of Directed Fiction. Directed Fiction seeks to blend the foresight...

Appendix A. Appendix A to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a continuation of the current economic status quo, big...

Appendix B. Appendix B to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event is immanent. The emphasis is on how...

Appendix C. Appendix C to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event has already occurred. There have been...

Appendix D. Appendix D to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event or phenomenon (often man-made) has already...

Appendix E. Appendix E to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a recognizable world absent of apparent transformations,...

Appendix F. Appendix F to Alternative Futures highlights what is perhaps the greatest strength of science fiction for use as a tool for...

Abstract: Classifying fiction illuminates the future. The technique for imagining the future presented in this paper using a rapid,...

Not all Steampunk novels feature airships, but enough of them do that it requires a deeper look. These amazing sky machines appear almost...