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Although the somehow vague character is needed in the foresight exercises seeking for the unknown future, foresight studies may also benefit the systemic process common to the risk analysis processes.
The communicative part of the process supports thinking about the unknown future, provides knowledge for more informed decisions
Finally in this brief look, not into the unknown future, but into what is already coming about with much more to follow in every dimension of the STEEPV acronym,
In their agenda setting paper on FTA Porter et al. 1 note that there are many irreducible uncertainties inherent in the forces driving toward an unknown future beyond the short termand predictions need not be assumed to constitute necessary precursors to effective action.
E. Pruyt/Technological forecasting & Social Change 80 (2013) 419 431 irreducible uncertainties inherent in the forces driving toward an unknown future beyond the short term
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