{"id":101845,"date":"2016-07-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/anteversion-ce-quil-faut-retenir-du-futur\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:16:59","slug":"anteversion-ce-quil-faut-retenir-du-futur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/anteversion-ce-quil-faut-retenir-du-futur\/","title":{"rendered":"Anteversion, What We Must Remember about the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have here a foresight study that takes quite a surprising form. In just a few pages, Dider Schmitt, a former member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA) at the European Commission, offers a number of thoughts and brief stories as pathways to a window on the future. Each of these ends with a little drawing reflecting its content. The book is, in a way, a stylistic exercise on the future and on the use of fictions as an aid to thinking.<\/h6>
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Schmitt<\/span> Didier, \u00ab\u00a0Anteversion, What We Must Remember about the Future. Between Science and Fiction\u00a0\u00bb, Fauve \u00e9ditions, avril 2016, 160 p.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \"\"\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

At the heart of this book is the idea of the concomitance of technological advances, the convergence of scientific breakthroughs, and this is illustrated in various fields from health to food, by way of sport, housing or mobility. Each little story offers a subject for thought, such as connected devices or our relationship with artificial intelligence and data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Didier Schmitt describes the role of the futures analyst as follows: \u2018Looking far ahead is a state of mind. It requires a certain altruism and an empathy toward the future. But scanning the horizon to take a look at the future mustn\u2019t prevent us from seeing what lies in front of us-so that we don\u2019t run the risk of stumbling over what is before our eyes. We need a bifocal vision: we must know how to see both the moon and the finger pointing at it, how to be crazy and wise at the same time.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this spirit, the book permits itself a few \u2018design fictions\u2019, such as this Foreword: \u2018These chapters have been put together by the Cassandra super-algorithm. The information has not been checked by humans, since they are too slow and insufficiently connected and cost-effective. The publisher-also a virtual entity-thus declines all responsibility for inaccuracies.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a staunchly multidisciplinary work\u2026 One may, however, regret that the author didn\u2019t venture to tell stories of a more economic or political cast-about a Europe without the British and with low interest rates\u2026 But those are doubtless less intoxicating vistas for the explorer of our futures!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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