Shaping the Future

According to Popper, Lempert, & Bankes (2005), scientific uncertainty often becomes an excuse to ignore long-term problems, such as climate change. It does not have to be so. In everyday life, responsible people look out for the long term despite the needs of the here and now: we do homework, we save for retirement, and we take out insurance. The same principles should surely apply to society as a whole. But how can leaders weigh the present against the future? How can they avoid retrenchment by scientific uncertainty? Analysts have turned to techniques such as scenario planning that involve exploring different possible futures rather than gambling on a single prediction. This article speaks largely on technological innovations shaping the future. One needs to see how this approach works in practice and figure out what exactly the computer should calculate (Popper et al., 2005). The writer is in agreeance that the future is uncertain and the world is facing many challenges. Analysts are researching ways to preserve the environment, safeguard the future of social security, and shield against terrorism and manage the effects of novel technology. Popper et al. (2005) suggests that there should be constructed, rigorous, and systemic methods for dealing with deep uncertainty. Using computers and technological innovations was one of these researchers’ primary solutions. As the future will always be uncertain, Morselli (2013) reports we must assume that educators will continue to design learning opportunities and learners will participate in those learning opportunities and will learn in ways that they would not have done if educators were not involved. Morselli (2013) assumes that teachers will continue to have a central role, and that technology is not going to be obsolete. Learners will continue to want and need opportunities.