Exact(2)
Choices concerning a preferable future should be based upon what is "best" and not what will merely benefit a particular individual or group.
The method aims at presenting the possible, probable and preferable future visions and directions of development for a given country, region, organisation, or even technology.
Similar(58)
Modality aspect of futures research: possible, probable and preferable futures are not to be mixed up.
In experiments, the probable futures began to appear alongside the preferable futures.
The ambition is not to predict the future, but to reach a better understanding around possible and preferable futures.
At this stage, students focused more on the preferable futures, because they had challenges to articulate explicitly.
Specifically, the interviewed practitioners addressed the importance of identifying preferable futures to inform and facilitate decision-making processes.
The purposes of the futures studies are to discover or invent, examine or evaluate, and propose possible, probable and preferable futures.
The distinction between possible, probable and preferable futures (the standard 1.2). is in many ways taken into account in the Futures Map frame and in its validity standards.
[38] Accordingly, Bell claims that "[t]he purposes of the futures studies are to discover or invent, examine or evaluate, and propose possible, probable and preferable futures".
Future studies refer to the science, art, and practice of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures; this may also include worldviews and myths underlying these postulations [1].
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