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Recently my futurist friend Gerd Leonhard from Basel, Switzerland and I started a new project together called Where is it Going (WIIG). The concept is simple – we record an online conversation about once a week, taking future-related questions submitted anyone, via Twitter. We...

I’ve been reading a popular old book, Blue Highways, by William Least Heat Moon (1982). This is the story of his long driving tour of the U.S., keeping to “blue highways” (or two-lane roads) and small towns. At one point he gets lost (more...

This is just a quick note to alert you to two currently available articles that feature quotes from me, noted for me by Google news alerts. The first is actually about China and the Beijing Olympics, “Beijing results serve food for thought,” which appears...

One the most unusual and enjoyable jobs I have had as a futurist came in late winter this year, for Proctor & Gamble Beauty, a job which I did via DeVries Public Relations of New York. DeVries was recently named the Consumer PR firm...

Apparently there is a custom followed by some French youths to incite violence, often involving innocent strangers, film the violent acts, and publish the resulting video on the web. The term for this is “Happy Slapping.” French authorities, understandably, want to stop this. They’ve...