“Fast Forward” is On the Horizon
New ASCEND Talk Show Envisions the Off-World Future
The next best thing to going to space is figuring out how to get there faster. That’s why, in advance of our 2021 main event this November, ASCEND is launching the talk show of the future. We can’t wait.
Tune in at ascend.events this August for the premiere of “Fast Forward: Envisioning the Off-World Future,” hosted by two of the most space-obsessed prognosticators on the planet — Devin Liddell, principal futurist at Teague, a design and innovation firm based in Seattle, and Kara Cunzeman, lead futurist for strategic foresight for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy at The Aerospace Corporation.
“People tend to think of space as some faraway realm, the exclusive domain of NASA and astronauts,” says Liddell. “I think what people saw during the summit was our joy in architecting a rich discussion in everyday terms about the future of space and what that means for all of us,” says Liddell. At “Fast Forward,” exploration drives the conversation. In the ASCEND spirit of “building on-ramps to space for everyone,” Liddell and Cunzeman look to accelerate the democratization of space by putting forth “preferred futures” — a term that separates futurists from fortune tellers — and including us all — not just the rank-and-file aeronautics and astronautics crowd — in the community of believers who can make it so.
“As fast as we’re moving right now, it’s the slowest it’s ever going to be,” says Cunzeman, whose work is focused on cultivating formalized methodologies in futures thinking. “Our jobs are to make sure preferred futures happen.”
“People tend to think of space as some faraway realm, the exclusive domain of NASA and astronauts,” says Liddell. “I think what people saw during the summit was our joy in architecting a rich discussion in everyday terms about the future of space and what that means for all of us,” says Liddell. At “Fast Forward,” exploration drives the conversation. In the ASCEND spirit of “building on-ramps to space for everyone,” Liddell and Cunzeman look to accelerate the democratization of space by putting forth “preferred futures” — a term that separates futurists from fortune tellers — and including us all — not just the rank-and-file aeronautics and astronautics crowd — in the community of believers who can make it so.
“As fast as we’re moving right now, it’s the slowest it’s ever going to be,” says Cunzeman, whose work is focused on cultivating formalized methodologies in futures thinking. “Our jobs are to make sure preferred futures happen.”
