Studies of ‘futures’ have hitherto focused on those that are predictable and ‘tame’, and on those that are unpredictable and ‘wild’. Here we consider a new class, the ‘feral’; which are expectations that things might be made worse by risk-based actions. The type case is the...

This paper is a structured dialogue between the four authors on the question “what might constitute wisdom for the future?” With each author exploring a distinct but related angle we first consider four aspects: The traditional view of wisdom linked to philosophy and the humanities and how...