Category: Innovation

Cisco recently published a podcast that I had the opportunity to do for them, for their online project they call Connected Futures: Business Innovation Insights. The project involves podcasts, a magazine, and other online material. In this episode I joined Michael Wade – Professor...

This short film, The Futurist, is my best at describing how I approach being a futurist, and why I do it.

I come across lists of emerging technologies all the time. This one, from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is particularly good. This institute was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James J. Hughes. The list of 7 technologies that...

Most planning is a search for a more efficient past, rather than a search for a truly new future. This happens often unintentionally. People would like a new vision. But they focus their planning on extrapolating past and current trends into the future, based...

Since the 1990’s I have been saying that the future is not something that just happens to us. The future is something we do. We often wait for the future. When we do that, we forget that even waiting is a way of actively...