July 22, 2025
We’ve been thinking a lot about foresight lately. Futurist thinking is typically the realm of business and policy, but if our whole mission is centered around this idea that stories are a critical tool for shaping the world we want to see one day, how might we as storytellers benefit from the lessons that can be learned from these strategists?
Of course, contemplating the future is well-tread storytelling territory for our sci-fi and speculative friends. Have you heard the story about Steven Spielberg making Minority Report? He brought together a group of futurists from the fields of science, tech, medicine, design, urban planning, and more for a two-day summit to envision what the world was going to look like in 2050. They created a playbook that built the world for the film, which in turn brought those predictions to life — over 100 patents were issued for ideas first presented in the movie. (Here’s a fun oral history of the summit to learn more.)
We’re striving for that real-world effect to be on things like how we take action on climate change or what an equitable society might look like rather than tech, but our tools are the same. If you’re also looking to make an impact with your work, why not try the foresight exercises this field uses to help with world-building, crafting your plot, or determining the market plan for your project? Take a look at the Futures Triangle, for example:
How might thinking about the weight of the past, the push of the present, and the pull of the future help you structure your outline or flesh out your characters? What about your game mechanics or your distribution model? And if you’re imagining your project to be part of a greater goal in moving our culture forward, where would it fit into that issue’s triangle in order to change its trajectory?
We’ll be sharing more about how this way of looking at the world can help boost creativity as we go. The possibilities seem endless! And if you want a summit like Spielberg’s, Farsight is a good place to start.
Featured Image: Steven Spielberg's Minority Report
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We’ve been thinking a lot about foresight lately. Futurist thinking is typically the realm of business and policy, but if our whole mission is centered around this idea that stories are a critical tool for shaping the world we want to see one day, how might we as storytellers benefit from the lessons that can be learned from these strategists?
