Horizon scanning is often treated as the automated generation of trends. This talk argues for the opposite: a method built on the documentation and interpretation of observable developments, where every signal is a concise proposition tied to traceable sources, and every claim about the long term can be followed back to the evidence it rests on.
Panel 4, chaired by Roberto Paura, Sala Parthenope. Part of the Convegno di Futures Studies 2026 – Oltre gli orizzonti: sguardi nel lungo termine, organised by the Fondazione IIF-Italian Institute for the Future.
