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Shaping Our Shared Tomorrow

World Futures Day 2026

At this year’s World Futures Day, hosted by Envision Greater Green Bay at Oneida Hotel and Casino, futurist Garry Golden returned for this fifth annual gathering, arguably the largest of its kind in the world, and brought a simple but powerful message: The future isn’t something that just shows up. The future is something we help shape.

And if we are not paying attention to the right things, we risk getting left behind.

Don’t Get Distracted by the Headlines

Golden started by calling out something many of us feel every day; there’s just a lot

coming at us. New technologies, constant disruption, endless headlines. But here’s the

catch: Most of that is surface-level noise. The real changes? They’re slower, deeper

and already happening. Things like:

• How our population is shifting
• What people expect from work
• How trust in institutions is evolving
• The way energy, housing, and systems are being rethought



His point: if we only focus on what is urgent, we will miss what is important. Continue reading here

Anthropic Just Published Honest Data

Nobody in AI Wants to See

By Marco Kotrotsos

Medium

March 10, 2026

The company behind Claude used its own usage data to measure how AI is actually affecting jobs. The findings are uncomfortable for everyone, including Anthropic.

Most AI jobs research is speculation dressed up as analysis. Consulting firms estimate which tasks could theoretically be automated, map those tasks to occupations, and produce alarming charts. The methodology is sound enough. The problem is that theoretical capability and actual adoption are completely different things, and nobody had the data to measure the gap.

Until now. Anthropic researchers Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory just published a paper that does something no AI company has done before: it combines what AI can theoretically do with what people are actually using it for. The distinction matters more than you’d think.

The gap between “could” and “does”

Previous research from Eloundou et al. estimated that AI could handle 94% of tasks in computer and math occupations. Anthropic’s observed data shows that only 33% of those tasks are actually being performed by Claude in practice. That’s a 61-percentage-point gap between what’s possible and what’s happening. Continue reading here

Fall 2026 Foresight Workshop

Signals Teams Trend Cards

For World Futures Day 2026, the five Envision Greater Green Bay Signals Teams created 15 trend cards that were used in a table discussion and design process to conclude the day. Here is one sample from the Upward Mobility Signals Team for you to consider. 

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