Hello, Quartz Index readers!
This week, we released What Happens Next. It’s our video guide to the future, which we explore through five documentaries that are each under 15 minutes long.
The first thing we learned about creating a guide to future? “There is no such thing as the future,” futurist Jim Dator explains. “Instead, there are before us a multitude of alternative futures, of possible futures, of plausible futures.”
It was pursuing these futures that led our team from tiny Pacific islands and South Dakota farms to Oregon forests, Canadian cities, and Central American backlands.
Each episode focuses on central aspects of life: money, work, food, home, and facts. All are poised to see large changes in the years to come.
We’d like to thank Retro Report, who co-produced this series with us, as well as AT&T for their support.
We hope this series provides you with a more nuanced guide for approaching the future. If our only images for the future are victory or doom, the underlying message seems to be that there’s nothing we can do but continue as we always have and hope for the best.
We need more useful ways to consider and prepare for what happens next. —Quartz and Retro Report
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