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Which will you develop by practicing futures thinking?

• Smarter investing

• Mental Flexibility

• Fortune teller

• Talent spotting

This type of futures thinking helps you strategize about what you can do today to make the future you want more likely, and the futures you don't want less likely.

• Forecasting skills

• Simulation skills

• Collaborative gaming skills

• Action skills

Which will you develop by practicing futures thinking?

• smater investing

• accurate prediction

• talent spotting

• foresight

Which will you not develop practicing futures thinking?

• foresight

• smarter investing

• hope

• strategy

According to the course, which of the following is true?

• it's more important to be imaginative than to be right when it comes to thinking about the future

• the main goal of the futures thinking is to get better at accurately predicting the future

• smarter investing develops by practicing futures thinkings

• most people say YES. if it were possible. I would like to know what will happen in my own future

A third neurological activity that happens when we think about the future is a kind of "scanning" of the future for possible opportunities to make choices and take actions that serve our own personal goals. What is this called?

• Memory and simulation

• Mentalizing

• Performance monitoring

This week you learned about the neurological pathways and activity areas of the brain that support thinking more creatively about the future.One of the most important neurological activities in thinking about the future is "scene construction." During scene construction, the brain creates a vivid movie or 3D virtual reality in your mind's eye. It allows you to "look around" and immerse yourself in a simulated scene, whether it's something that you're remembering or something you're imagining could happen in the future. What is another term for this neurological activity?

• Memory and simulation

• Performance monitoring

• Mentalizing

In the scenario "Machines as Criminals", what's different in this future?

• Lawmakers have to decide who should be legally responsible when "smart" objects break the law: the people who own the objects, or the companies who make them? For example, if a self-driving car gets a speeding ticket, who should pay: the owner of the car, or the auto manufacturer who programmed it to speed?

• It proves impossible to teach ethical decision making to robots and AI. As a result, most "smart" machines behave in ways that are criminal or in violation of human values, and the production of "bad" machines is banned.

Professional futurists often talk about "drivers of change" when making future forecasts. What's a driver of change?

• A person who gets to decide what the future will be.

• A major new technology, global trend or phenomenon that is likely to have a big influence on what the future will be.

• An action you can take today to change what the future will be.

Institute for the Future uses a three-step methodology that Bob Johansen explains in his mini-masterclass video and in the reading this week.The first step of the methodology, or cycle, is to anticipate what might be different in the future. What is the name of this step?

• foresight

• get there early

• insight

• action