The information society is not the last “society” to come. Already, the next society is appearing on the horizon. It will not be driven by mastery of information – machines take care of that – but by endeavours to fulfil deep emotional needs. This will in some way be a return to the...

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to review and contrast traditional foresight methods through the lens of one of the key insights about complex adaptive systems – namely, a system's sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Design/methodology/approach – Foresight methods...