Futures & Foresight Studio

Compare choices under two plausible conditions rather than assuming one outcome.

Identify whether a claim estimates an outcome or follows specified assumptions.

Distinguish a scenario used for comparison from a prediction or fictional promise.

Separate physical possibility, contextual plausibility and desired outcomes.

State the issue, decision, time horizon and who will use the result.

Specify what the work should help choose, redesign or investigate.

Compare near, medium and long horizons with the pace of the system studied.

Identify inputs, outputs and external conditions that could change a decision.

Record measured conditions separately from expectations about what comes next.

State the desired function, available resources and unacceptable outcomes.

Identify whether uncertainty arises from variability, limited data or incomplete explanation.

List the conditions required for a proposed outcome to occur.

Compare gradual extrapolation with a structural change in the process.

Separate confidence in a claim from how surprising its outcome would feel.

Record an uncertain factor, its decision relevance and evidence that could refine it.

Choose maintaining access to a small digital collection over the next year.

Record current copies, formats, devices and access requirements.

Compare normal access, a device failure and loss of network access as teaching scenarios.

Try a local copy and a restoration exercise against each scenario.

Use observed recovery time and missing files to revise the plan.

Compare measured data, primary studies, practitioner scenarios and promotional claims.

Record publication date, observation period and updates affecting a source.

Compare a worldwide pattern with the conditions of the local system.

Keep the observed fact, source and proposed implication in separate fields.

Mark superseded claims and preserve the evidence used for an earlier decision.