Cybernetic Futures#
Dr Ben Swift
APS Strategic Futures Network · September 2022
I acknowledge the First Australians on whose traditional lands we meet, and pay respect to the elders past and present.
cybernetics#
the study of purposeful, self-regulating systems
a short (mostly wrong) history of futures#
two takeaways#
- the stories we tell about the future shape the systems we build in the present — and vice versa
- the relationships in a system determine its long-term behaviour
ANU School of Cybernetics#
tools to manage the transformation of “systems of autonomous systems” — including cybernetic futures
stories: the thing from the future#
in a ____ future, there is a ____ related to ____ … what is it?
relationships: influence diagrams#
identify components and pairwise relationships
look for the loops — use them to drive future scenarios
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