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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Sep 24, 2022
How Would a Greater Depression Affect Society?
A Greater Depression is a nebulous term. There is no formal definition of an economic depression, but these terrible economic calamities...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 14, 2022
Directed Fiction: Scanning the future with scenario prompts
Directed Fiction Defined: Directed fiction is a strategic foresight tool designed to simultaneously consider multiple plausible future...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: The use of fiction to explore competing visions
Abstract: Alternate Futures are compared using the foresight technique of Directed Fiction. Directed Fiction seeks to blend the foresight...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Growth and Decay
Appendix A. Appendix A to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a continuation of the current economic status quo, big...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Threats and New Hope
Appendix B. Appendix B to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event is immanent. The emphasis is on how...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Wasteworlds
Appendix C. Appendix C to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event has already occurred. There have been...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: The Powers that Be
Appendix D. Appendix D to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event or phenomenon (often man-made) has already...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Disarray
Appendix E. Appendix E to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a recognizable world absent of apparent transformations,...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Inversion
Appendix F. Appendix F to Alternative Futures highlights what is perhaps the greatest strength of science fiction for use as a tool for...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
Jan 17, 2022
Imagining the Future: The rapid classification of fiction archetypes
Abstract: Classifying fiction illuminates the future. The technique for imagining the future presented in this paper using a rapid,...
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