Category: Planning Futuring Strategy

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 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...