Scenario Archetypes

• Business as Usual: Continued Growth

  • Nightmare: Economic Collapse

• Environmental Sustainability

  • Nightmare: Ecological Collapse

• Ideological Exclusionism

  • Nightmare: Anarchy (collapse of rule of law)

• High Tech Transformation

  • Nightmare: Infrastructure/System Collapse

• Spiritual Transcendence

  • Nightmare: Anomic Collapse

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The slides which follow summarize each of these five archetypes, and their attendant ”nightmare” scenarios.