Suzette Brooks Masters

What has to change in order for those futures to be realized?

You never think about things the same way again.

But too few people have those experiences.

So I'm thinking a lot about what if media companies, what if the people that host debates, they forced those questions.

onto the candidates.

So they became de rigueur and every candidate knew, okay, I have to have a vision of the future.

I have to talk about how I'm going to get there.

And tech is going to create a world for people to see and assess based on what I say my policy platform is.

And it might be an ugly future or it might be a beautiful future, but I have to think about that.

So that's a small idea, but I think it wouldn't be that difficult to get people to start forcing that on politicians, you know, all over the place.

So that's my media idea.

And then I think in terms of governance innovations that are not as radical as the ones you're talking about, but if you started adding a futures and foresight element to

into government policymaking, right?

So that people, politicians and bureaucrats alike were forced to acknowledge fundamental uncertainty, look at different scenarios for what could happen, and then think about what policies

and what adjustments and what flexibility are needed to navigate that extreme uncertainty, right?

That's a completely different way of activating a bureaucracy, right?

One that's focused on experimentation, on uncertainty, on flexibility, on resilience, right?

And having a long-term set of goals that are animating you

to basically drive policymaking.

We don't do it that way right now.