At its worst time, foresight has been merely a matter of prediction based on analysis of trends and their extension. We are coming into a high point for strategy where foresight is demanded. The source of this foresight will be new thinking, new and more powerful questions, and an understanding of the relationships of structure and design as well as all the connections to internal and external entities. Actually, the choice of interpretation models for what is internal and what is external will be one of the significant elements of foresight. Those who want to attain foresight would do well to consider the explosion of life forms in the Cambrian era.
Life is organization.
An explosion of life forms is an explosion of kinds of organization. In the Cambrian era, it was organization of cells for survival. In the current era, its organization of human beings for survival in mutual productive enterprise. This explosion of forms will result in a number of new relatively stable models after there have been many tried. It isn't the survival of the form that matters, however, because human organizations can change their forms many times.