Rooted in Pakistan. Open to possible futures.
Futurist. Educator.
Tomorrow is
an open question.
Strategic Foresight, Futures Literacy and Responsible AI — connecting education and AI literacy with the lived realities of Pakistan, South Asia and the Global South.
Memory / Place / Possibility
Thinking from here.Karachi, Pakistan
Research · Learning · Public ideas
What assumptions are shaping the future we expect?
What becomes possible when tomorrow is not treated as inevitable?
Whose knowledge is missing from the future we are designing?
What future becomes visible when we change the question?
01 / Intellectual compass
Connected ideas. Different starting points.
Choose a question worth exploring.
Recognising how our assumptions about tomorrow shape what we see and do today.
It creates room for alternatives, helping learners and institutions move beyond a single expected future.
What changes when we imagine more than one tomorrow?Explore Futures Literacy
Related reading: Pakistan 2035
Exploring change, uncertainty and alternative futures to inform decisions in the present.
Horizon scanning, scenarios and backcasting help institutions test plans before circumstances test them.
Which assumption would make our current strategy fragile?Explore Strategic Foresight
Related reading: Beyond AI Literacy
Considering the consequences, limits and responsibilities of how artificial intelligence is designed and used.
AI choices affect people, institutions and opportunities. Human judgment and governance belong in those decisions.
Whose perspective is missing from this AI decision?Explore Responsible AI
Related reading: The AI Skills Race
Understanding, evaluating and using AI with an awareness of its capabilities and limitations.
Tool familiarity is only a starting point. Critical judgment and the ability to keep learning matter as tools change.
What should we understand before we trust this output?Explore AI Literacy
Related reading: Beyond AI Literacy
Learning that combines human judgment, AI literacy and the ability to explore uncertain futures.
Education can help people participate in shaping change, connecting local experience with wider possibilities.
What should learning make possible for the next generation?Explore Future-Ready Education
Related reading: Pakistan 2035
Looking at changing livelihoods and institutions? Explore the Future of Work.
02 / Stories that help us think
Local stories can open new questions.
They do not have to give us one answer.
Imagine the streets of Mohenjo-daro as a prompt to think about our own choices: water, public space and care. What we build today becomes the world someone else inherits.
What would future generations learn from the city we leave behind?Choose one challenge in your city
Mohenjo-daro is a real archaeological site. This contemporary illustration and reflection are not a historical reconstruction.
In a retelling of Sheikh Chilli’s familiar story, a basket of eggs becomes an imagined enterprise. Pause where a hopeful plan turns into an untested certainty.
Which assumption holds the whole imagined future together?Imagine three different outcomes
An original educational adaptation of regional folklore, not an authoritative version or a quotation.
The Futures Parrot asks questions rather than predicts answers. Move from a compelling possibility to a small, responsible experiment you can learn from.
Whose knowledge could change the action you take next?Write your first responsible step
The parrot is an original fictional learning guide, not a traditional or archaeological symbol.
Continue the journey: open the full stories and personal reflection worksheet. Your worksheet responses stay in your browser.
03 / Selected writing
Why Strategic Foresight is a missing capability for the AI age.
Read on MediumWhy we need Futures Literacy before the future arrives.
Read on SubstackHow do we prepare for technologies that keep changing?
Read the original essayEssays and commentary · Original sources linked. Explore the insights directory.
04 / Current research
Research connects intellectual exploration with the institutions and people who live with change.
Explore the research archiveHow can we study people’s and institutions’ readiness for AI and uncertain futures in Pakistan’s higher education?
Study Protocol in Development · Version 0.1. The instrument separates People Readiness from Institutional Readiness. No national results have been collected.
Protocol Version 0.1 · Source copy from Fiker Futures Academy, 26 September 2026. View research status and references.
05 / Work, with a public record
Academic records, published work and independent sources. Authority through traceable evidence.
Explore the Young Futurist Society of Pakistan, student community projects and teaching and practice.
06 / Work with me
Speaking · Workshops · Research · Institutional Foresight
Responsible AI · Future-Ready Education