Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1006594)

But why even bother "what iffing!" these scenario's? :cool: What arn't going to happen anyway!

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1006593)

Actually found out that it's the Conservative Party membership actually voted that he is the most likely candidate to become the next party leader!

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 1006602)

So why the H@@@l bother to post it in the first place:confused::confused::confused::confused:

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1006594)

But why even bother "what iffing!" these scenario's? :cool: What arn't going to happen anyway!

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1006618)

If you really want to know...

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
– The Rockefeller Foundation

page 9

WHY SCENARIOS?
The goal of this project was not to affirm what is already
known and knowable about what
is happening right now at the intersections of
technology and development. Rather, it was to
explore the many ways in which technology
and development could co-evolve — could both
push and inhibit each other — in the future, and
then to begin to examine what those possible
alternative paths may imply for the world’s
poor and vulnerable populations. Such an
exercise required project participants to push
their thinking far beyond the status quo, into
uncharted territory.

Scenario planning is a methodology designed
to help guide groups and individuals through
exactly this creative process. The process
begins by identifying forces of change in the
world, then combining those forces in different
ways to create a set of diverse stories — or
scenarios — about how the future could evolve.

Scenarios are designed to stretch our thinking
about both the opportunities and obstacles that
the future might hold; they explore, through
narrative, events and dynamics that might
alter, inhibit, or enhance current trends, often
in surprising ways.

Together, a set of scenarios
captures a range of future possibilities,
good and bad, expected and surprising — but
always plausible. Importantly, scenarios are
not predictions. Rather, they are thoughtful
hypotheses that allow us to imagine, and then to
rehearse, different strategies for how to be more
prepared for the future — or more ambitiously,
how to help shape better
futures ourselves.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1006604)

you could try a link or was it aired in the Guardian:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1006711)

It was in a London Newspaper - The Evening Standard.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1006747)

I have just moved all the above posts from an Olympic thread to this new one as they were off topic.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1006761)

Seem to remember good ole Boris was sacked from the Tory front bench,? was it deceitful conduct?:D On that basis hes got all the requirements to become P.M. pmsl.

Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 1006774)

This has been discussed on Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show and the Today programme on Radio 4 some time ago. Plenty of comments have been regarding Mr Johnson but it has to be said that he does come across as very likeable whenever he is featured in the media. I have to admit to enjoying listening to the man.

Get beyond all the posh bluster and there is a very clever bloke underneath.

Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 1006774)

This has been discussed on Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show and the Today programme on Radio 4 some time ago. Plenty of comments have been regarding Mr Johnson but it has to be said that he does come across as very likeable whenever he is featured in the media. I have to admit to enjoying listening to the man.

Get beyond all the posh bluster and there is a very clever bloke underneath.

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1006747)

I have just moved all the above posts from an Olympic thread to this new one as they were off topic.