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About the Course

Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what’s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get better at changing what’s possible today – in your company, your industry, your community, and in your own life? This course will introduce you to the practice of futures thinking, as developed and applied for the past 50 years by the Institute for the Future, a Silicon-Valley-based research and learning group founded in 1968. In this course, you’ll build your understanding of what futures thinking is and what you can do with it. You’ll master essential foresight techniques. You’ll meet some professional futurists. And you’ll choose one or more future topics you want to investigate with your new foresight skills. This course is for anyone who wants to spot opportunities for innovation and invention faster. You can gain the skills and confidence to help YOU become someone who makes the future, instead of letting the future happen to you. Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course....

Top reviews

TF

May 16, 2020

Excellent overview of foresight studies. Nothing in any of the follow-on courses is technically hard, but I suspect putting it into practice is a bit like the game of Go: the rules are the easy part.

CK

Aug 3, 2020

I really liked how this course was structured with videos, readings, and activities. It has a nice flow, and lots of helpful information. I would highly recommend this for any aspiring futurist.

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By William B

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Mar 19, 2022

Everybody needs to acquire the skills, insight and learn how to use the tools to create a vision of the future now and plot their own pathway to successfully exist in itl

By abhijeet c

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Dec 10, 2019

Completely worth the time and content. It helps you to explore future possibilities with a better framework and science coming directly from practitioners in the field.

By Raimundo R

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Mar 16, 2022

The cuourse content, read material and videos are excellents. The way to present all contents and exercises help me to understand clearly the importance of the topic.

By Ana

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Aug 12, 2021

This course gave me new tools to think , to design future in business analyzing signals of our present with a wide view of reality of today to create future realities

By SANKHA S D

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Aug 2, 2021

A very well curated course videos and enjoyable along wide fun way to understand and imagine the future of the world. Also the community has been wonderful. Cheers

By Isabel S

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Feb 14, 2023

Much more substantial and educational than I expected from a massive online course. The assignments are super easy though, would have appreciated more challenge.

By Nathan K

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May 9, 2020

A great class to start off and get a basic introduction to the skills and abilities that futurists use in order to make forecasts and scenarios about the future.

By Carlos R

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Mar 10, 2021

Thank you very much for giving us this opportunity to learn something more about the future, in other words, knowing how to differentiate it from a prediction.

By Maribel M

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May 25, 2020

¡Muy interesante! Me parece que pensar en el futuro de esta forma es muy valioso, especialmente ante las grandes incertidumbres que vivimos.

By Kat W

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Dec 11, 2020

A really good, well structured and interesting course. Good variation of material, flexibility of working dates and engaging content. Thoroughly enjoyable :)

By Zain I

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Apr 19, 2020

This course was excellent. IFTF does a really great job at walking you through the basics and explaining things in ways you can easily understand and apply.

By Tamara E M

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Apr 19, 2021

Good Introductory course for beginners! I would have liked more readings and references, but I suppose that was reserved for the more advanced courses :)))

By Poragjyoti B

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Sep 8, 2020

Thank you for creating the insightful course. Surely it will help people like me to a vision of my life and create a future accordingly. Thanks once again.

By Rathmalgodage J U S

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Jul 17, 2020

This is an excellent course. Future thinking is a very important concept for everyone. This will help you to change your life and to change the world also.

By Sumaya J A A S

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Jun 14, 2020

كانت دورة ممتعة جدا

تعلمت أشياء كثيرة وصطلحات جديدة عن المستقبل وأن المستقبل حسب ما قاله الخبراء يبدأ بعد10 سنوات من الآن

أو قد يبدأ من الغد، شكرا لكم جميعا

By Jorge L O P

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Dec 3, 2020

Excellent course and very necessary for any businessman or person who wants to deliberately influence their own future and that of their organization.

By Jenith B C

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Apr 17, 2023

This course is one of its kind, it makes you think a lot on the possibilities and negativities of what your future is.. Looking back to Look Forward!

By Beatriz W

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Aug 31, 2020

Amazing course! Thanks Jane McGonigal and IFTF for the amazing opportunity! One feedback: I would love to exchange in realt-ime with others students

By Erik H

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Nov 16, 2021

Great introduction to the Futures Thinking and the specialization of Futures Thinking! I hope to continue along the list of courses for this topic!

By Rafael C B

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Sep 20, 2020

Excelente curso para entrar no mundo do foresight, imaginar futuros possíveis e lutar para criar o melhor para o maior número de pessoas possíveis.

By Deleted A

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Jan 10, 2021

This is a fantastic introduction to futurist thinking principles, and laid the groundwork for further exploration with solid tools and frameworks.

By Jessa I

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Dec 13, 2020

This course taught me the importance of being proactive about the future. We are not mere spectators of the future; we have the power to shape it.

By Petra B

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Oct 26, 2020

Very engaging, appreciate very useful visual support to the content shared in the course, and greatly inspirational course reading. Thank you!

By Suren N

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Mar 23, 2020

Definitely a course to be undertaken if you are interested in preparing for the future. Jane McGonigal is a fantastic presenter of the course.

By Penny T

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Mar 25, 2021

Very interesting topic. Completely new to me - futures thinking and it really has given me a good grasp on how to use this type of thinking.