Planning is complemented by citizenship activities, partnership activities, and technical and economic innovations. The first scenario, named Starship, envisions a world characterized by an economic boom and the development of a new consensus. The second scenario, named Titanic, is the other extreme, featuring low or no economic growth, coupled with growing social fragmentation. The third scenario, christened Bounty, combines a booming economy with continued social fragmentation and polarization. They developed scenarios on how the emerging global information society might reshape the environment for governance in Canada during the coming decade.
Scenario building is a technique used by a wide variety of organizations.
This report is an invitation for you to join this important inquiry into Canada's future. As a start, it is an invitation to explore the scenarios developed by the roundtable, to test them against your own experience, and to examine what they may mean for decisions that you face in your organization, in your community and in Canada. This site contains full papers delivered by a few of the speakers including the key note speech by Irwin Duggan. Key Note Addresses as well as an excellent talk by M.P. John Godfrey which hits on major issues of virtual versus face to face democracy and cites the Community Assets work of John McKnight and other key developments in the field. The Human Factor in Community Networking.