LEAP’s domain name has changed from leap2020.net to leap2040.eu ! This change of URL is a symbolic signal sent on purpose right after the European election. This move has been scheduled a few months ago. We explained our intention in this article last February: From LEAP 2020 to LEAP 2040, a ...

Once the goal is set and a projection towards the future is established (see previous “Lesson : A harbour in mind“), the strategy to reach the aim requires the best possible information on the environment/landscape ahead. The future is full of factual data: scheduled events, actor’s projects and strategies, observable ...

Our partner FuturHebdo has just released the # 01 of its paper magazine. Here is the editorial signed by Oliver Parent: In my personal pantheon of myths, the year 2019 has always been important. Indeed, it is during this year that Ridley Scott’s movie Blade Runner (1982) takes place. 2019: ...

Article published in May 2014 Political Anticipation is for the future what history is for the past, and in both cases it is about conquest. Conquest over the field of rationality, humanity, intelligence, power, freedom. And the common features between knowledge of the past and knowledge of the future are ...

On the twentieth anniversary of the launch of LEAP/Europe2020, we are reaching the horizon set in 1999 by Franck Biancheri and his team. Based on the experience and lessons drawn from this project, we believe that the anticipations and proposals produced during these years are more relevant than ever. Political ...

A careful analysis of the history of Political Anticipation has conducted LEAP to identify three prerequisite combining into the predictive capability of Biancheri[1]: goal, network and will. This “Lesson of Political Anticipation” is about the first prerequisite: “Goal, a harbor in mind” It can be estimated that since he created ...

LEAP’s original method of political anticipation is a lot about pedagogy and changing mindsets. Mindsets in this regard can be changed along the following building-process of future-related awareness: The first teaching it wishes to teach is that the future plays a greater role in our XXIst century than it ever ...

The European Union is a new level of power to which States are invited to surrender part of their sovereignty in order to exert it together at a more global level—that of the European Union. This is a new level of power above the State. But the EU is neither ...

In the United Arab Emirates, there is a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence. This position is occupied by the politician Omar bin Sultan Al Olama. It includes nine social and economic sectors: transporation, space, renewable energy, water, technology, education, environment and traffic. Behind the spectacular news, there is the will to ...

Re-reading Franck Biancheri’s anticipations helps to understand the springs of failure and to build the next Europe from the lessons learned and on a much better understood foundation. This text is certainly a rough draft, but it gives a fairly precise idea of Franck Biancheri’s European genius, this great man ...