Thus, the purpose of strategic foresight processes is to create opportunities and options to
move away from potentially limiting knowings that are used to make forecasts, singular or
default futures to alternative knowing for creating alternative futures. Alternative futures which
can be considered aligned, indeed more relevant or deeply more meaningful. So here are
some important insights27 into why you ought to do futures thinking and strategic foresight
facilitation and what can be some of the effects if you do:
futures thinking challenges our dominant way of knowing and learning about the
future;
futures thinking helps us see the world differently;
futures thinking is designed to help us rethink the present;
futures thinking is not intended to help us predict anything;