Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Weak Signal's progress: Advanced

This Weak Signal came from: 
Interviews

The source of this Weak Signal: 
Karl Heinz LEITNER, "Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)", interviewd by "MIOIR".

Weak Signal's description: 

Policy makers at the European level will read some of these wild cards, but probably for many of them there will be no response, action or preparation for some of these futures, because they think that is too far away, or not realistic whatsoever. We need to understand better why this is, and why society and policy makers and decision makers ignore the findings of futurists. You could of course spend another three years developing and detecting new wild cards and weak signals, but I think we should spend as many resources and efforts trying to understand how much this information is used by the stakeholders. You can produce very nice reports, policy newsletters and policy briefs, but what is the role of this documentation? We should think about whether producing such briefs is the right media or form of media communication, or whether producing a movie or an event or a workshop may have a higher impact. We should reflect on this and think how to communicate our results.