Looking to the future Charles Brass “The Age of Aquarius”“The Age of Aquarius” A New Dawn...

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Looking to the futureLooking to the future

Charles Brass

““The Age of Aquarius”The Age of Aquarius”A New Dawn for the Professional PlannerA New Dawn for the Professional Planner

be prepared to look as far into the past

as you seek to look

into the future

the extended presentfirst coined by Elise Boulding

the saga of Easter Island

700EasterIslandsettled

by nomadic

Polynesians

1722discovered

by theDutch

30 metretall trees

create canoesand

statues

1400

population

20,000

from Jared Diamond in Discover Magazine - August 1995

population1,500

the saga of Easter Island

700EasterIslandsettled

by nomadic

Polynesians

1500

last statue erecte

d

1722discovered

by theDutch

30 metretall trees

create canoesand

statues

1400

population

20,000

from Jared Diamond in Discover Magazine - August 1995

last talltree

chopped

down

population1,500

the saga of Easter Island

700EasterIslandsettled

by nomadic

Polynesians

1722discovered

by theDutch

30 metretall trees

create canoesand

statues

1400

population

20,000

population1,500

SuperannuationGuarantee

1992

SuperannuationGuarantee

1992 2002

FinancialServicesReform

Act(FSRA)

SuperannuationGuarantee

1992 2002

FinancialServicesReform

Act(FSRA)

2011

SocialImpactBonds

SuperannuationGuarantee

1992 2002

FinancialServicesReform

Act(FSRA)

2011

SocialImpactBonds

FOFAimplementation

20132013

SuperannuationGuarantee

1992 2002

FinancialServicesReform

Act(FSRA)

2011

SocialImpactBonds

FOFAFOFAimplementationimplementation

Australiapopulation36 million

20132013 20502050

SuperannuationGuarantee

1992

Australiapopulation36 million

2002

FinancialServicesReform

Act(FSRA)

2011

SocialImpactBonds

2013

FOFAimplementation

2050

scanning the environment

Social

Technical

Environmental

Economic

Political

Legal

Ethical

now

time

the futures cone

now

time

the futures cone

preferred

future

there is no such thing as “the” futurethere is no such thing as “the” future

/

extent of innovation

fundamentalincremental

extent of globalizationextent of globalization

purely localpurely local

truly globaltruly global

2012

creating the future

future taker

or

future maker?

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