The document discusses trends shaping the future, including shifting demographics as more states will have elderly populations over 20%. It also discusses the techno-social revolution and how digital natives interact with technology differently than digital immigrants. The future is described as a kinected 3D world. Planning the preferred future involves envisioning possible, probable, and preferred futures to help make better decisions today. The future is something that is created based on present-day actions.

1. What is your image of the Future?
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2. Why does it matter?
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3. The future is not a mystery….
 Shifting demographics:
 Techno-Social-Economic
Revolution
 EEE
 Museum Design
 Nexus of the fast lane and the
“slow movement,”
 Of the real and virtual
 Of the social and the private
 Of the passive and the
participatory
 Of the global and the local
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4. 27 Florida’s by 2025
States where at least 20% of
The population will be elderly
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5. Demographic Mismatch
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6. Life of a Millennial, born in 1985
Birth: PCs are 10 Age 5: World Wide
Age 11: Google
years old Web
Age 16: Wikipedia
Age 14: Napster Age 12: Blogs
and iPod
Age 25
Age 19: Facebook Age 20: YouTube 3D Kinected
World
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7. Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants
 Shopping  Evaluating
 Communicating  Gaming
 Sharing  Learning
 Buying  Searching
 Selling  Analyzing
 Exchanging  Growing up
 Creating  Evolving
 Meeting
 Dating
 Collecting
 Coordinating
Marc Prensky originated
“digital native” term and this list
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8. Future: Kinected 3D World
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9. Preferred Future Planning
3-Cone Model
POSSIBLE PROBABLE PREFERRED
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PRESENT
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10. What is your image of the future?
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11. Picturing the Future
 Tablediscussion exercise
 Read your three images
when called upon
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12. Preferred Future Planning
is not really about the future.
It is about folding the
future back on the
present so that you can
make better decisions
today.
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13. Looking back from the Future
 Table discussion exercise
 Read your ideas when called upon
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14. The future is
something
we do.
The future is not
something that just Glen Hiemstra
happens to us. Futurist.com
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