019: Can Futurists be Useful? (with Dr. Bree Trevena and Charlie Warwick)

If you expected four leading foresight professionals to come and deliver a grab-bag of incredible intel, you are sorely mistaken. Instead we’re joined by Dr. Bree Trevena and Charlie Warwick to talk about recent reflections on what it means to be a ‘good’ futurist in the time of systemic complexity, fracturing identities and AI. 

Links:

• Perspective A ‘Kill Switch’ Could Shutter Europe’s Access to US Tech. Here’s How. Tech Policy Press: https://www.techpolicy.press/washington-could-activate-a-kill-switch-to-terminate-european-access-to-us-tech-heres-how-it-could-work/ 
• UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/16/uk-bank-bosses-plan-visa-mastercard-alternative
• Slight decrease in deaths on Dutch roads last year, NL Times: https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/17/slight-decrease-deaths-dutch-roads-last-year
• There Are No Cars in Wakanda, SPUR: https://www.spur.org/news/2020-02-20/there-are-no-cars-wakanda
• StudioCone’s Plurality Player Wants You to Feel the Planet, Imagine Magazine: https://imaginemagazine.co/news/studiocones-plurality-player-wants-you-to-feel-the-planet/
• APF Compass (What Makes a Futurist): https://www.apf.org/compass
• Mind the Gap Refisited, Nordmann & Rip: https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2009.26 
• Building Performance Reimagined, CIBSE: https://www.cibse.org/policy-advocacy/industry-initiatives/building-performance-reimagined/