California Dreaming

To spur thought about California’s big questions facing the state, the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society created a map of California’s ''landscape-in-the-making''.

The map lays out four alternative futures for California in 2020. The four futures include: the Smart State - representing a continued economic growth model, the Culture Commons – a constraint scenario where growth is abandoned for conservative natural resource use, 21 Century Superstructures – a future with transformed health, education, food production, and manufacturing institutions, and last the Enclave Economy – a scenario where a natural disaster (forest fire or earthquake) drains wealth from the public sector leading to natural resource privatization. California exhibits signs of each of the alternatives today. The map is a tool meant for neighbors, colleagues, and community leaders to provoke conversation and creative thinking that will build the California of the future.   

Resource(s): http://iftf.me/public/IFTF_SR-1313_CaliforniaDreaming.pdf

Article courtesy of The Smart Growth Network