WMX 4387 J. Sheppard
email:
sheppard@sfu.ca
Research
Exercise E:
For this
exercise you will be working in your groups.
Each group will
be addressing slightly different questions.
What business moves a
commercial organization will make depends
greatly on what the future
holds. Knowing what that involves is being
able have some vision of what
is likely to occur.
Given product lead times and
expert estimates we can get a pretty good
idea of what the world looks
three to five years from now. For long-run
corporate survival and related
long-run investment decisions one needs
to envision 10 to 20 years
into future. To do this, one needs to start
thinking along that ten to
twenty year timeline.
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Group |
Item |
Comment / Question |
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1 or A |
What will we
be eating in ten years? |
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2 or B |
What promise
or threat does artificial intelligence have for the next 20 years? |
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3 or C |
The Future of Drinking Water |
There are
two possible visions for ten years from now. One bad the other good. |
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4 or D |
New Orleans
is sinking, but so is Venice, Miami, etc. What do we do? |
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5 or E |
What are we running our cars, planes and industries on in
ten years? |
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6 or F |
How will we be getting where we need to go
in 10 to 20 years? |
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7 or G |
What does entertainment look like in ten years? |
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8 or H |
What promise
or threat does robotics have for the future? |
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