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Strategic insights from simulation gaming of AI race dynamics

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103563

Ross Gruetzemacher , Shahar Avin , James Fox , Alexander K. Saeri

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State imperatives and hopeful futures in outside lobbying campaigns: A case study on sunsetting industries in Finland

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103561

Hanna Lempinen

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Future images of youth on food systems transformation– study with the Finnish high school students

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103568

Minna Kaljonen , Vilja Varho , Kirsi Sonck-Rautio , Roosa Ritola , Anni Savikurki

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Editorial to the special issue ‘Environmental Justice Futures’ By Céline Granjou, Valérie Deldrève and Devleena Ghosh

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103518

Céline Granjou, Valérie Deldrève, Devleena Ghosh

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On the present-future impact of AI technologies on personnel selection and the exponential increase in meta-algorithmic judgments

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103538

Lambros Roumbanis

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Caring for technologies, caring for Country

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103535

Anna Cain

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Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation

IF 3 3区管理学

Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103548

Jan Oliver Schwarz , Theresa Constanze Schropp , Bernhard Wach , Fabian Buder

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Are we ready to be wrong? Extended peer community for quality science-advice in uncertainty

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103520

Min Hyung Kim , Dorothy Jane Dankel

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Co-experiential futuring: Where speculative design and arts meet futures studies

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103549

Álvaro Aranda-Muñoz , Nina Bozic Yams , Lisa Carlgren

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Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives

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Futures Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103534

Anke Schwittay

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