CONCLUSIONS AND CRITICAL LIMITATIONS

In a world of crises, pandemics, and unpredicted threats, use of the scenario technology has become widespread in efforts to prepare and plan for an uncertain future. This book provides a lens through which to view contemporary attempts to engage with future uncertainties via this technology. Taken together, the cases presented in the book enable us to understand in depth the methodology of future thinking and future making involved in the building of scenarios, how scenarios are put into action and facilitate preparedness exercises and practical responses, and how, in addition to expressing new modes of veridiction and jurisdiction, they