Enhancing Future Consciousness with cognitive tools: Technologies and practices
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The document discusses enhancing future consciousness through cognitive tools and practices, emphasizing its development from personal adaptation to tasks and environments. It explores factors influencing future consciousness, including task characteristics, environmental contexts, and personal variables such as motivation and goal-setting. Additionally, it highlights the role of modern technology as both a cognitive tool and an immersive environment that can support and extend future-focused thinking.
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Enhancing Future Consciousness with cognitive tools: Technologies and practices
- 1. Enhancing Future Consciousness with cognitive tools: Technologies and practices Jonathon Richter, Ed.D. Center for Future Consciousness Eugene, Oregon
- 2. Future Consciousness is developed as a consequence of personal adaptation to the rhythm of goals and tasks that one repeatedly commits to in particular environments. Because of a number of factors, some believe this capacity should be purposefully enhanced.
- 4. Future Consciousness varies by: Task characteristics : linearity, complexity, novelty, coherence of engaged events. Environmental factors : cultural values, expectations, policies, standards, practices, etc. Personal variables : motivation, attention, goal-setting, commitment, work habits, etc.
- 6. One’s Future Consciousness develops through transactions… Events require future thinking - more or less Contexts elicit future thinking - more or less Repeated events and contexts create a milieu for or against future-focused thinking. “ what is your temporal ecology?”
- 8. Days add up to years, adding up to create habitual frames of temporal reference... Cultural frames Organizational frames Familial frames Interpersonal frames Intrapersonal frames
- 10. If we became aware of the impact of the designed world on our Future Consciousness... We could see how we affect people’s FC through our policies, practices, and built environments. We could intentionally alter the built environment to match the temporal frames we wish for; and Even, perhaps, design whole systems to create Temporal Frames consistent with the FC that we need.
- 12. Future Consciousness-extending Environments Work rhythms with extended future foci Active and regular personal goal oriented behavior Future-focused communities Critical thinking in a discipline that requires extended future consciousness
- 13. Future Consciousness Personality variables Optimism Capacities to Perceive and Reflect Goal Setting, Motivation and Commitment Virtuosity Perseverance Creativity Foresight
- 14. Event-based Future Consciousness Setting goals, committing to, and being successful at tasks that require a relatively extended temporal horizon within relevant contexts.
- 15. Future Consciousness can be extended somewhat by Engaging in tasks that will extend your FC in particular ways Immersing oneself in environments that encourage / require an enhanced FC Developing psychological capacities for FC
- 16. Digital impacts on Future Consciousness... Technology as a driver of change and as a moderator on the human lived experience. Modern technologies can be used as a cognitive tool. Modern technologies can be lived in as an immersive environment.
- 17. Technology as tool Can be used for a specific job or application Well defined parameters, not whole milieu Useful for a Scaffold Instrument Model or Simulation Communication
- 18. Technology as context Increasing instrumentality Increasing contingency Increasing proximity Increasing degree of abstraction Increased demand on personal productivity Increased demand on efficiencies Increased demand on response time from demand to delivery
- 19. Motivation and Goal-setting Technology as context: Much knowledge work can be done via technology today Tasks can be designed and monitored Environments can have goal-setting embedded An intentionally constructed future-focused milieu can be developed Human use can be monitored and presentation adjusted according to the level, degree, and/or quality of the input.
- 22. Motivation and Goal-setting Technology as cognitive tool: Inspirational support Feedback mechanisms Connections with supporting community Technology as cognitive tool: Futureme or Hassleme 43 Things LifeTango
- 26. Critical & possibility thinking Technology as context: MUVEs, MMPORGs, Listservs, threaded discussions, communities of practices, etc. Technology as cognitive tool: Models, scaffolds, examples, simulations, problem-solving, concept mapping, and brainstorming tools
- 29. Creativity & Foresight Technology as context : modeling, MUVEs, MMPORGs, simulations, etc. Technology as cognitive tool : Mindmapping, Cross-impact matrices, Drawing, Graphics, Scenario builders, STELLA, etc.
- 30. creativity
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- 32. Planning and productivity Technology as context: Microsoft Office :) Technology as cognitive tool: Blackberry, Palm, Cell phone, Outlook, OmniOutliner Pro,
- 33. Planning and productivity David Allen’s Getting Things Done ... view your commitments by: task / project environment / context
- 34. OmniOutliner Pro
- 36. Future-focused narrative Technology as context: ePortfolios can provide a landscape for integrating your goals and the images that make up the story of your future consciousness. Who am I? Who do I want to be? How do I get there? Technology as cognitive tool: Storyboarding, ComicLife, Blogging, Podcasting, Facebook, MySpace, etc.
- 37. In the use of cognitive tools to enhance Future Consciousness Many parts, loosely joined Or Comprehensive framework
- 38. As goes the universe, so must go consciousness
- 39. May your future be bright and full possibility!
- 40. The Center for Future Consciousness [email_address]