Responses
wild card project

 #1

The Joker is a bit mystical, subversive, and almost marginalised. He doesn’t fit in, as he doesn’t have a suit. If you played as a child, you might identify if you were a bit different. Project participant, 2022.

#2 

We live in a foreshortened span of time, during which we and our environment will change more than during any era in history. Humanity has never experienced the convergence…in some cases, the collision…of global forces such as those we may anticipate. Understandably, we have extraordinary difficulty imagining the scope of the events which are so rapidly coming at us. As the forces merge, recombine, and crash into each other, they cause successive second- and third-order events, out of the blue. When that happens, the whole interlinked complex catches us, and sends individuals, communities, corporations, nations, and international bodies, off balance. Part of the problem is that the developed world’s support systems are constantly being reinvented to meet the burgeoning reality of the information age. Yet the very expansion of technological growth means the possibility of information overload and situations where it will be harder to comprehend, much less respond to baffling events. Big changes are occurring in the areas of population expansion, our social values, science, technology, and our physical environment. All these forces begin now to converge at an accelerating rate. These converging forces produce large events with very little notice; these low-likelihood, high-impact events can be characterised as Wild Cards with interconnected and global implications.  Project participant, 2022. from Futuring Wild Cards, By John L. Petersen and Karlheinz Steinmüller, Hanna Adeyema 2020.