It’s all about possibilities not just probabilities.

I learned that in my early years from Anita Roddick, the founder of “The Body Shop”:

With a clear focus on your real values you can amplify them, by being open to the possibilities that life is providing. Having an eye just on trends, you may just follow one idea or a cliché – but to really create future, we need to be open to all the new possibilities.

Max represents a new generation of futurologist.

You can probably spot a typical futurist of today by predicting the future based on trends, numbers we can easily see and with the help of models.

However future is much more complex and there is much more to see. Read some examples to get an idea of how deep we need to get into the topics:

• We don't need to cut costs in healthcare – we need to rethink the system entirely, to make it inherently more affordable, more humane, and safer.

• Instead of debating working hours, we should be talking about personal data sovereignty, digital democracy, and the difference between our industrial personas and our authentic selves, coming to really new concepts of what work is in future.

• We moved from the extended family as a social safety net in agrarian society to the 4-person family of industrialization – supported by a social system. But what does family or communal living look like in the future?

• Education was designed for industrial skills. ADHD was defined as a disorder. Now we’re beginning to realize that many of the skills we need for the future resemble those often associated with ADHD.

• Industrial society taught people to build idealized versions of themselves – life blueprints designed to meet system expectations, not to nurture the authentic self.