Threatcasting
What is it, and why is it important?
Threatcasting emerged from the work of futurists in trying to predict how current events might ripple into the future. It’s a cousin to what many large organizations due to ensure they are ready to meet a variety of possible disasters ranging from bad actors (extortion attempts) to natural phenomena such as volcanos, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Planning for the worst, in my opinion, is something every group and individual should make time for. I live between a seismic fault line and one of the world’s largest (and currently dormant) volcanoes. It’s very simple to threatcast that I should prepare for a major earthquake, the possibility of a volcanic eruption, and all that either event entails. The Pacific Northwest has a history of tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Threatcasting them is very, very simple stuff.
Most threatcasting is not as simple as looking around and noticing that you live between a volcano and an ocean that floats on top…
