Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of a Greater Depression: A Three Frameworks Perspective
Abstract: Explores the ethical implications of a Greater Depression from three philosophical frameworks: Utilitarianism, Deontology, and...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Jan 21
Surviving the Greater Depression: How National and International Legal Systems Will Adapt
Abstract: Explores the potential impacts of a catastrophic global economic collapse on national and international legal systems from the...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Jan 19
The Greater Depression and the Reshaping of the Political Landscape
Abstract: Examines the potential impact of a fictional Greater Depression on Global Multimodal Logistics (GML) from the perspective of...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Jan 16
When the Global Economy Fails, So Does the Planet: The Environmental Costs of a Greater Depression
Abstract: The environmental consequences of a Greater Depression can range from air pollution, to water scarcity, to the loss of...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Jan 13
Facing the Unfathomable: Government Strategies for Dealing with a Greater Depression
Abstract: Explores how economic policies governments might employ to respond to the Greater Depression, a hypothetical future economic...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 22, 2022
From Crisis to Innovation: How the Greater Depression will Shape the Development of Technology
Abstract: Explores how the Greater Depression, a hypothetical future economic crisis, could shape future technology development. It...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Sep 24, 2022
How Would a Greater Depression Affect Society?
A Greater Depression is a nebulous term. There is no formal definition of an economic depression, but these terrible economic calamities...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 14, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Jan 17, 2022
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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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 29, 2021
Book Review - Becoming a Professional Futurist: A Five-Step Approach
For sound and practical advice, tons of useful information, and an assortment of extremely helpful tools, “Becoming a Professional...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 7, 2021
Strategic Foresight – Axes of Uncertainty
(paid link) Debunking Preterism by Brock David Hollett: This book grew on me. My initial interest in Christian eschatology was sparked by...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 7, 2021
How Do You Use Strategic Foresight?
One of the explicit motivations for writing my novel was to showcase some of the tools and techniques of Strategic Foresight for a...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Jul 1, 2021
Strategic Foresight - Futurism
(paid link) Future Smart by James Canton: Increasing velocity and complexity define the world, and you’d better figure out how to deal...
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