Predicting the future in any detail is impossible, and yet every day we have to make decisions – based on incomplete and often very ambiguous information – that have consequences that will play out in the future. How can we deal with this dilemma? This presentation will introduce some deceptively simple but powerful ideas, concepts and tools for thinking about the future that have proven useful in a variety of contexts over many years, from academia to industry to defence and national security to everyday life in general. These will (hopefully) help you return to your work or personal contexts equipped with some new ways to think about the future and allow you to see it anew with different eyes.