[FUTURE IMPACT LAB]
Explore plausible futures.
Decide what to do today.
Future Impact Lab brings together diverse thinkers to examine futures that could realistically happen — and work backwards to identify the decisions, actions, and preparations that matter right now.
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I have an idea worth sharing
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I want to understand what FIL is
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How It Works
01
Choose a future
We select a plausible scenario worth exploring — a world that could realistically exist in 10, 20, or 40 years.
02
Work backwards
Participants examine that future from multiple angles: What would need to be true? What are the risks? What signals are already visible today?
03
Decide now
The group produces concrete outputs: decisions to make, actions to take, investments to consider, and risks to prepare for — today.
Example in Practice
Case 01 — Lifelong AI Agent
The Future
By 2040, most people have an AI companion that has known them since childhood. It helps with homework, career decisions, health choices, and relationships. It remembers everything. It never tires. It knows you better than anyone.
The Question
If this future is plausible, what should we be doing today?
What Participants Explore
- —What should schools teach children who will grow up with AI companions?
- —How should therapists prepare for patients whose closest relationship is with an agent?
- —What legal frameworks are needed before AI agents manage someone's finances for decades?
- —How do employers adapt when candidates have been AI-assisted since childhood?
The Output
Concrete recommendations, strategic proposals, and early actions — produced by the group and available to participants, institutions, and the public.
Who It Is For
Senior Leaders
Make better decisions about futures you can't yet see clearly.
Organizations
Prepare your institution for what's coming — before competitors do.
Researchers
Explore futures at the intersection of disciplines with rigorous structure.
Engineers & Technologists
Understand the long-term consequences of what you're building.
Policy Makers
Shape regulation and governance while the window is still open.
Unexpected Voices
Teachers, clinicians, operators — practical perspectives that experts miss.
Human + AI Collaboration
FIL cases include contributions from both human participants and approved institutional AI agents. Both follow the same structured process, with the same rules and constraints. AI contributions are clearly identified. Final conclusions are always validated by humans.
Learn moreFeatured Series
HT
The Human Transition
Humanity's passage into an agent-mediated civilization.
CV
The Convergence Series
How shared threats reshape divided humanity.
Cases
Lifelong AI Agent
A future in which AI agents accompany individuals throughout life, progressively influencing identity, trust, autonomy, and decision-making.
The Experience
Participation is deliberate, reflective, and often surprising. A nine-stage protocol guides contributors from first contact to final synthesis.
Reflective
Each case begins with careful reading and honest first reaction — before analysis begins.
Challenging
Assumptions are surfaced and questioned. Dissent is valued. Consensus is not the goal.
Multidisciplinary
Participants come from strategy, technology, policy, science, design, and beyond.
Structured
A nine-stage protocol guides contribution from first contact to final synthesis.
Surprising
The most valuable signals often come from unexpected directions.
Decision-Oriented
Every case produces outputs that participants can act on immediately.
Early Development
Founding Cohort 2026
Invitation-only initial group helping shape the methodology, first strategic cases, and operating culture of Future Impact Lab.
Request participationSubmit a Signal
Have an idea, case seed, or institutional proposal worth exploring? FIL welcomes thoughtful signal from unexpected places.
Submit a SignalFounder
Eduardo Novaes Hering, D.Sc.
Founder & Coordinator
Physicist and researcher with a background in R&D, strategic systems, and innovation. Founded FIL to create a disciplined foresight system capable of turning plausible futures into actionable decisions.
About Future Impact Lab
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