Category: Planning Futuring Strategy

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

I wrote these words for the first time years ago when I was working on what is still one of the best and most intensive preferred future planning projects I've ever done. It was with a state Department of Natural Resources, and I was...

Future mega-drought chances according to NASA study… Lake Shasta before drought… Lake Shasta now in drought… See more comparisons at weatherextreme.com. How will we cope if drought becomes mega? It’s not just a California problem.

I do think that self driving cars and vehicles are part of a preferred future. I particularly like Google’s approach, which is to eliminate the idea of human driving altogether, getting rid of steering wheels and brake pedals. This video illustrates. Notice in particular...

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...