Category: Innovation

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...

Yesterday I spent much of the day with the Customer Solutions team of Avista, the innovative energy company based in Spokane, Washington. We explored future trends on a 5-10 year horizon. We talked a lot about solar and the traditional utility model, and of...