Introduction-Welcome to our course on backcasting from a solar punk future using generative AI, chat GPT, global wisdom, and systems change! If you're new to these concepts, don't worry - we'll provide a thorough introduction to each of them throughout the course.Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that is capable of generating new content based on a given prompt. It can be used to create credible fiction, which is a powerful tool for backcasting - a process of working backwards from a desired future state to identify the steps needed to get there. By using generative AI to explore what is possible and what is needed to achieve a solar punk future, we can co-create a hopeful and realistic vision for the world. Chat GPT is a type of generative AI that uses natural language processing to generate responses to prompts in the form of text. It can be a powerful tool for generating ideas and exploring what is possible in the backcasting process. This course has a special emphasis on generative AI and wisdom traditions! This course is designed to introduce you to the powerful tools and concepts of generative AI and how they can be applied in tandem with wisdom traditions from around the world.

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How do you use backcasting in your life and work? How do you think about the fractal each of us has in a solar punk future? What happens when you increase the generative AI augmentation of your backcasting? What happens when you apply wisdom traditions to backcasting? What happens when you approach backcasting with an interdisciplinary lens? Where should the backcasting from a solar punk future meta movement go to and grow to in the future? What is the way you use positive deviance in backcasting? What would a community of practice for backcasting from a solar punk future mean and look like? What narratives for you are the right ones for a regenerative futures, solar punk futures, and protopias to be things we can backcast from? What would a permeable membrane be between the future we wish to happen and the current day? Is that something that we can understand through the lens of backcasting? Can ChatGPT help?