We all want to make the best decisions for our future and our family’s future. The more information we have access to and the more unpredictable the world becomes, the more anxiety-provoking it can be.
As the world changes, these feelings of overwhelm will only heighten. Your past experiences and the experiences of your family members and mentors will be less reliable guides- as they have never encountered the challenges that face us. How do we know we are making the right decisions?
First, we need to understand what overwhelms us, understand how the future is impacting our decisions, and build the skills necessary to develop a resilient life for our children and ourselves.
Whatever we do today creates our future.
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It is our belief we are on the verge of significant changes with bewildering new possibilities.
No matter what your age, new frameworks for understanding the world, new skills and
lifelong learning is needed to build resilient futures.
Station 2050 is a global platform working at the intersection of learning and the future that builds partnerships to explore our dynamic world. Our goal is to support individuals, schools, communities, and businesses to prepare themselves for the changes and opportunities that lie ahead.
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It is our belief we are on the verge of significant changes with bewildering new possibilities.
No matter what your age, new frameworks for understanding the world, new skills and
lifelong learning is needed to build resilient futures.
Vision
Station2050 is a global platform that promotes research-based solutions to engage and inspire individuals and communities to imagine what’s possible and find their place in the future.
Mission
Station2050 exists to partner with individuals and communities to better understand, design, and create resilient futures for all.
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The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2020 a loss of 5 million jobs worldwide due to the use of artificial intelligence (Future Jobs Report 2018, World Economic Forum.
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85% of the jobs that today's learners will hold in 2030 have not been invented yet (Institute for the Future & Dell Technologies. The Next Era of Human Machine Partnerships, 2017).
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Futurist Martin Ford maintains 75% of occupations we know today will disappear by the end of the century (https://mfordfuture.com/about/)
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We do not entirely understand the problems these new technologies will create, let alone how to solve them.
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In the next decade, we will see the emergence of human-machine partnerships and human-machine teams (Institute for the Future & Dell Technologies. The Next Era of Human-Machine Partnerships, 2017)
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By 2022 everyone will need an extra 101 days of learning (Future Jobs Report 2018, World Economic Forum)
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The genetics revolution will allow us to reprogram our own biology (Singularity)
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The robotics revolution will allow us to create a greater than human non-biological intelligence (Singularity)
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“As strangeness becomes the new normal, your past experiences, as well as the past experiences of the whole of humanity, will become less reliable guides. Humans as individuals and humankind as a whole will increasingly have to deal with things nobody ever encountered before, such as super-intelligent machines, engineered bodies, algorithms that can manipulate emotions with uncanny precision, rapid man-made climate cataclysms, and the need to change your profession every decade.” (singularity)
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​​ Are you future-ready?
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Are you Future-Ready?
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Do your children have the necessary skills to navigate the future?
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Are our schools teaching the right subjects? The right life skills?
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How do you parent a child that will live in a very different world than today?
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Are psychologists and therapists prepared for the mental health challenges of the future
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We believe that understanding these changes and learning how to create your future is within the realm of most people’s ability. There is a mindset, set of practices, and experience that is all learnable.
Understanding the future
“[T]he future will be far more surprising than most people realize because few observers have truly internalized the implications of the fact that the rate of change itself is accelerating.”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near
