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    Directed Fiction: Scanning the future with scenario prompts
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 14

    Directed Fiction: Scanning the future with scenario prompts

    Directed Fiction Defined: Directed fiction is a strategic foresight tool designed to simultaneously consider multiple plausible future...
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    Alternative Futures: The use of fiction to explore competing visions
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: The use of fiction to explore competing visions

    Abstract: Alternate Futures are compared using the foresight technique of Directed Fiction. Directed Fiction seeks to blend the foresight...
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    Alternative Futures: Growth and Decay
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Growth and Decay

    Appendix A. Appendix A to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a continuation of the current economic status quo, big...
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    Alternative Futures: Threats and New Hope
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Threats and New Hope

    Appendix B. Appendix B to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event is immanent. The emphasis is on how...
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    Alternative Futures: Wasteworlds
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Wasteworlds

    Appendix C. Appendix C to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event has already occurred. There have been...
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    Alternative Futures: The Powers that Be
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: The Powers that Be

    Appendix D. Appendix D to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event or phenomenon (often man-made) has already...
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    Alternative Futures: Disarray
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Disarray

    Appendix E. Appendix E to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a recognizable world absent of apparent transformations,...
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    Alternative Futures: Inversion
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Inversion

    Appendix F. Appendix F to Alternative Futures highlights what is perhaps the greatest strength of science fiction for use as a tool for...
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    Imagining the Future: The rapid classification of fiction archetypes
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jan 17

    Imagining the Future: The rapid classification of fiction archetypes

    Abstract: Classifying fiction illuminates the future. The technique for imagining the future presented in this paper using a rapid,...
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    Steampunk Airships: Three features that (nearly) define a genre
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Dec 29, 2021

    Steampunk Airships: Three features that (nearly) define a genre

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