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ASIA 2038: Ten Disruptions That Change Everything
By Sohail Inayatullah and Lu Na
Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Tamsui, 2018
Using insights from hundreds of foresight workshops in Asia, ASIA 2038 explores ten key disruptive emerging issues. These include:
- The rise of Asian women;
- The new extended Asian family;
- The end of the God King and the Big Man;
- New facilitated models of learning and teaching;
- The wandering societies of Asia;
- Climate change leading to institutionalized foresight;
- The great migration to Asia;
- Towards an Asian confederation;
- Asia leading in the transition to a spiritual post-capitalist society; and,
- An Asia that says yes to itself.
Along with an analysis of these disruptions, stories are used to illustrate these new futures.
Inayatullah and Lu Na argue that Asia is in the midst of a major and foundational shift. The shift is not only related to the spheres of economy, technology and geo-politics; equally important are current and coming social and cultural changes.
But this book is not just about what is likely to happen, it focuses more on using the future to create desired visions, since what we can foresee and imagine, we can also create. Asia 2038 is thus not only about emerging trends and disruptions. It is also about imagining the best version of Asia; an Asia that continues to innovate and flourish in ways that can benefit current and future generations.
Length: 142 pages
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Dr. Sohail Inayatullah is the reigning master of futures studies in Asia—indeed, worldwide. The emerging issues he identifies here most urgently require consideration by all people concerned about the futures of the region and the world.
Jim Dator, Professor Emeritus and Former Director, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Former President, World Futures Studies Federation
Dr. Sohail Inayatullah, who with his Causal Layered Analysis took the discourse on Future Studies to new heights, has made yet another groundbreaking contribution. This time it is Asian Futures. With powerful intellectual capital, he has dared to challenge the prevailing fatalism of the East. His latest work – Asia 2038 – is not only shaped by his extensive personal experiences across diverse cultures and languages, but by his exceptional insights into the Western narrative on the Futures. With “the rise of women” and “the rights of robots” juxtaposed, one is unlikely to miss the mystique of Asia 2038. Essential reading for anyone wanting to explore social dynamics across vast reaches of Asia. A pioneering work in the emerging area of Asian Futures.
Dr. Munawar A. Anees, Founding Director, Centre for Knowledge Futures, Pakistan
If there is one word to describe Inayatullah’s work on futures it would be transcendence. Asia 2038 is a unique blend of what is real and what would be radical for the region – empowered creativity and imagination.
Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President, AGAHI, Pakistan
Dr. Inayatullah most recent work is a thorough look at what is possible, probable, in Asia in 2038. The structure of the work makes it approachable for both academic and business audiences wishing to gain an understanding how current challenges and opportunities have the potential to re-craft the narratives of Asian change. By connecting his personal research with his expertise in developing and facilitating foresight capacity within organizations Dr. Inayatullah is able to provide concrete examples of futures in practice. Each forecast has clear examples of how organizations, at all scales, have the capacity to create transformative change.
Adam Elmaghraby, Samsung Lifestyle Research Lab-Product Innovation Team
Sohail Inayatullah is the one that demonstrates who a real change agent is. Through his new book Asia 2038, I learn again that Futures studies can help better forecast emerging issues, develop long-range alternative strategies, make more informed and wiser decisions, and enhance collaboration on how to make the future significant in my life and our society. As a professor at KAIST, South Korea, I will use this book as an important textbook.
Dr. Seongwon Park, Science and Technology Policy Institute, South Korea
Asia 2038 is a must read. It gives an avant-goût of what Asia will look like, in terms of societal changes, political changes, and values evolution. Dr. Sohail Inayatullah’s powerful and insightful book on Asia, makes it a unique window to the future… I fully believe that the future will be different and that the impossible will become the plausible.
Ismahane Elouafi, Director General, ICBA – Ag for Tomorrow
Dr. Inayatullah provides much needed insights on the futures in Asia, based on his years of conducting workshops and in-depth interviews with a wide range of scholars, professionals, and lay people across the world. After reading this book, readers can better understand how futures of Asia will be forecasted and enjoy creating the preferred futures with the tide of changes.
Hyun-Hee Heo, Research professor, Korea University, South Korea
Asia 2038 is indeed an interesting and excellent read. However, I just feel some of the transformational changes described in the book are too soon for at least the countries of South Asia. I do not see too many robots here, perhaps in China and other East Asian countries. By 2080 perhaps.
Dr. Tanveer Naim, Comstech, Pakistan