{"id":247434,"date":"2026-11-15T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T17:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/futurist-karl-schroeder-on-foresight-and-strangemaking-covid19"},"modified":"2026-11-15T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T17:06:53","slug":"futurist-karl-schroeder-on-foresight-and-strangemaking-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/futurist-karl-schroeder-on-foresight-and-strangemaking-covid19","title":{"rendered":"Futurist Karl Schroeder on Foresight and Strangemaking COVID19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/826601578-singularity1on1-karl-schroeder-strangemaking.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>2020. Every pundit on TV was forecasting the \u201cnew normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karl Schroeder wasn\u2019t convinced there would be one.<\/p>\n<p>Karl lives a double life. He is a #ScienceFiction novelist with ten books translated into a dozen languages, and a professional #futurist with a master\u2019s in Strategic Foresight and Innovation. The Canadian army commissioned two of his short novels as research tools. Few people practice both the art and the science of the future. Karl does.<\/p>\n<p>So in the middle of the #COVID19 lockdowns, I invited him back for our third conversation, with one question on my mind: what is #foresight actually good for when the world breaks?<\/p>\n<p>His opening move would make most forecasters uncomfortable. Prediction is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>From there, we get into Isaac Asimov\u2019s dream of equations for history, the \u201cdefault future\u201d we all carry around without noticing, how foresight played out in Alberta\u2019s oil industry, wild cards, and why story sits at the center of it all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/futurist-karl-schroeder-on-foresight-and-strangemaking-covid19\">Continue reading \u201cFuturist Karl Schroeder on Foresight and Strangemaking COVID19\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020. Every pundit on TV was forecasting the \u201cnew normal.\u201d Karl Schroeder wasn\u2019t convinced there would be one. Karl lives a double life. He is a #ScienceFiction novelist with ten books translated into a dozen languages, and a professional #futurist with a master\u2019s in Strategic Foresight and Innovation. The Canadian army commissioned two of his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}