The future isn’t something that simply happens to us. It’s a space of possibilities shaped by our actions today. That’s why we serve it in bite-sized parabites that reveal deep, transformative shifts already observable beneath surface-level trends. You can think of them as undercurrents in our world that challenge our philosophical understanding and the relationship between humans and things.
Taste the future by diving into the parabites to challenge your values, ideas, visions, and strategies against them. By thinking from points of fracture, we can move beyond linear logic to uncover new ways of understanding and acting in the present. Each parabite is a small toolbox for working with change and exploring the transformative potential of what’s possible.
Work through them on your own, with your team, or book a session with us to experience the future bite by bite. Let us know how it works for you!
Use
Possession or access? Rights of disposal and the relationship to goods, services, and resources are being redefined.
Infrastructure
Infrastructures surround us without drawing
attention to themselves. They are omnipresent and yet fade into the background in order to act anticipatorily.
Omnipresence
Society is breaking beyond the limits of
the present. Ancestors, citizens, artificial
entities, and those yet unborn form a new
alliance.
Keychain
Access to social and economic spheres of
life is increasingly governed by non-monetary (access) keys.
World
Humanity transcends terrestrial boundaries,
settles the vastness of space to expand its
sphere of influence, and in doing so, becomes a multi-planetary species.
Role
Everyone and everything is available
and deployable across different value-creation roles and chains. What is needed emerges directly from everything that is available.
Existence
The individual is no longer bound to a
single place or point in time, but exists
simultaneously across parallel physical and
synthetic realities.
Participation
Everything and everyone is engaged in
an active process of participation,
continuously shaping our common world.
Solutions
Products and solutions adapt immediately to changing needs, take form, and dissolve again once their purpose has been fulfilled.
Humanity
Human beings become the architects of their own genetic and physical future,
independent of the limits of nature and science.
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Non-Human
Empathy, understanding, and insight develop beyond human senses. Emotions are recognized, interpreted, and translated by external entities.
Environment
Everything that surrounds us becomes
part of an active sensorium that responds to changing conditions. Living and non-living environments are no longer distinct.
Biographies
Life phases can be individually adapted to
personal dynamics. Free from social expectations, learning, work, and leisure become freely configurable modules of life.
Interdependence
Resource management and responsibility are inseparably linked. Local autonomy and global responsibility for resources are intertwined across geographical boundaries.
Emergence
The world begins to “grow” out of itself,
dissolving the boundary between natural origins and artificial creation to form a seamless, hybrid reality.
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The parabites booklet explores 15 fundamental shifts that are already reshaping the relationship between humans, technology, and the world.
- Navigator competencies to help you test the resilience and ethical foundations of your own strategies
- A new vocabulary for change that helps you move to a critically creative future perspective
- Deep reflections on the paradoxes that arise from these parabites
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Each parabite is a toolbox in itself for working with change and its transformative power. The parabites presented here are a curated selection of shifts, but the horizon of change is vast.
We are certain there are more "shifts" waiting to be identified. If you have observed a fundamental shift that redefines how our society or economy functions, we want to hear from you.
Help us expand this space of possibilities with your reality-bite.
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